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Debra A. Murphy is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and health professions, with significant contributions to the fields of infectious diseases, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their work covers a range of topics centered around HIV/AIDS research and interventions, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, family support in illness, interactions between HIV, drug use, and sexual risk, family and disability support research, as well as adolescent and pediatric healthcare.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Optimal strategies to improve uptake of and adherence to HIV prevention among young people at risk for HIV acquisition in the USA (ATN 149): a randomised, controlled, factorial trial, 2024, The Lancet Digital Health
  • Multisite longitudinal efficacy trial of a disclosure intervention (TRACK) for HIV+ mothers, 2021, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Longitudinal Bidirectional Relations among Parenting Quality, Parenting Stress, and Child Functioning in HIV-affected Families, 2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Investigation of Mothers' Disclosure of HIV to Their Children, 2021, Child Development
  • Implementing a multisite efficacy trial to facilitate maternal disclosure to children: the TRACK HIV Disclosure Intervention, 2022, Translational Behavioral Medicine

Their frequent coauthors include Lisa Armistead, Marya T. Schulte, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold, and Nada M. Goodrum.

Debra A. Murphy has published multiple papers in venues such as AIDS and Behavior, The Lancet Digital Health, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and Child Development.

Best Publications

  • Randomised, controlled, community-level HIV-prevention intervention for sexual-risk behaviour among homosexual men in US cities

    Jeffrey A Kelly;Debra A Murphy;Kathleen J Sikkema;Timothy L McAuliffe

  • Self-efficacy in health promotion research and practice: conceptualization and measurement

    Edward Maibach;Debra A. Murphy

  • Psychological interventions to prevent HIV infection are urgently needed. New priorities for behavioral research in the second decade of AIDS.

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Debra A. Murphy;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Seth C. Kalichman

  • Outcome of cognitive-behavioral and support group brief therapies for depressed, HIV-infected persons.

    J A Kelly;D A Murphy;G R Bahr;S C Kalichman

  • The NIMH multisite HIV prevention trial: Reducing HIV sexual risk behavior

    D. D. Celentano;C. Dilorio;T. Hartwell;J. Kelly

  • Factors associated with severity of depression and high-risk sexual behavior among persons diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

    J A Kelly;D A Murphy;G R Bahr;J J Koob

  • Antiretroviral medication adherence among the REACH HIV-infected adolescent cohort in the USA.

    D. A. Murphy;C. M. Wilson;S. J. Durako;L. R. Muenz

  • Designing Systems that Train Learning Ability: From Theory to Practice

    Sharon J. Derry;Debra A. Murphy

  • The effects of HIV/AIDS intervention groups for high-risk women in urban clinics.

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Debra A. Murphy;Carla D. Washington;Tracey S. Wilson

  • Normative Data on the IOWA Conners Teacher Rating Scale

    William E. Pelham;Richard Milich;Debra A. Murphy;H. Allen Murphy

  • HIV-Related Stigma among People with HIV and their Families: A Qualitative Analysis

    Laura M. Bogart;Burton O. Cowgill;David P. Kennedy;Gery W. Ryan

  • Relative efficacy of long-acting stimulants on children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder: a comparison of standard methylphenidate, sustained-release methylphenidate, sustained-release dextroamphetamine, and pemoline.

    William E. Pelham;Karen E. Greenslade;Mary Vodde-Hamilton;Debra A. Murphy

  • Barriers to HAART Adherence Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Infected Adolescents

    Debra A. Murphy;Moussa Sarr;Stephen J. Durako;Anna-Barbara Moscicki

  • Efficacy of a preventive intervention for youths living with HIV.

    Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus;Martha B. Lee;Debra A. Murphy;Donna Futterman

  • AIDS / HIV risk behavior among the chronic mentally ill.

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  • Longitudinal antiretroviral adherence among adolescents infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

    Debra A. Murphy;Marvin Belzer;Stephen J. Durako;Moussa Sarr

  • No change in health risk behaviors over time among HIV infected adolescents in care: role of psychological distress

    Debra A Murphy;Stephen J Durako;Anna-Barbara Moscicki;Sten H Vermund

  • Effects of deviant child behavior on parental distress and alcohol consumption in laboratory interactions

    William E. Pelham;Alan R. Lang;Beverly Atkeson;Debra A. Murphy

  • Predictors of antiretroviral adherence.

    Debra A. Murphy;W. D. Marelich;D. Hoffman;W. N. Steers

  • Barriers to antiretroviral adherence among HIV-infected adults.

    Debra A. Murphy;Kathleen Johnston Roberts;David J. Martin;William Marelich

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey A. Kelly
Jeffrey A. Kelly Medical College of Wisconsin
Lisa Armistead
Lisa Armistead Georgia State University
Sylvie Naar-King
Sylvie Naar-King Florida State University
Jeffrey T. Parsons
Jeffrey T. Parsons City University of New York
Kathleen J. Sikkema
Kathleen J. Sikkema Columbia University
Yih-Ing Hser
Yih-Ing Hser University of California, Los Angeles
William E. Pelham
William E. Pelham Florida International University
Richard Milich
Richard Milich University of Kentucky
Elizabeth M. Gnagy
Elizabeth M. Gnagy Florida International University

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