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Kathleen J. Sikkema

Kathleen J. Sikkema

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Psychology

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76
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15425
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1743
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1028

Overview

Kathleen J. Sikkema is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Health Professions, and Medicine, with particular focus in subfields such as General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Health.

The main topics covered in their work include Mental Health Treatment and Access, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Migration, Health and Trauma, Menstrual Health and Disorders, Health disparities and outcomes, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, and aspects of Health, psychology, and well-being.

Among notable recent publications, the following papers are significant:

  • Reducing mental illness stigma in healthcare settings: Proof of concept for a social contact intervention to address what matters most for primary care providers (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • COVID-19: Increased Risk to the Mental Health and Safety of Women Living with HIV in South Africa (2020, AIDS and Behavior)
  • Collaboration With People With Lived Experience of Mental Illness to Reduce Stigma and Improve Primary Care Services (2021, JAMA Network Open)
  • Puberty- and Menstruation-Related Stressors Are Associated with Depression, Anxiety, and Reproductive Tract Infection Symptoms Among Adolescent Girls in Tanzania (2021, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine)
  • Mechanisms of action for stigma reduction among primary care providers following social contact with service users and aspirational figures in Nepal: an explanatory qualitative design (2022, International Journal of Mental Health Systems)

The venues where Kathleen J. Sikkema has frequently published include:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • JAMA Network Open
  • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Frequent collaborators in research projects and publications include:

  • Aisha King
  • Brandon A. Kohrt
  • Sauharda Rai
  • Anvita Bhardwaj
  • Nagendra P. Luitel

Best Publications

  • Internalized Stigma Among People Living with HIV-AIDS

    Rachel S. Lee;Arlene Kochman;Kathleen J. Sikkema

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • HIV risk behavior among adults with severe mental illness: a systematic review.

    Christina S. Meade;Kathleen J. Sikkema

  • Outcomes of a randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention for women living in 18 low-income housing developments.

    Kathleen J. Sikkema;Jeffrey A. Kelly;Richard A. Winett;Laura J. Solomon

  • Depression and Thoughts of Suicide Among Middle-Aged and Older Persons Living With HIV-AIDS

    Seth C. Kalichman;Timothy Heckman;Arlene Kochman;Kathleen Sikkema

  • HIV risk behaviors among women living in low-income, inner-city housing developments.

    K J Sikkema;T G Heckman;J A Kelly;E S Anderson

  • IMPLICATIONS OF HIV TREATMENT ADVANCES FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH ON AIDS : PROTEASE INHIBITORS AND NEW CHALLENGES IN HIV SECONDARY PREVENTION

    Jeffrey A. Kelly;Laura L. Otto-Salaj;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Steven D. Pinkerton

  • Factors affecting disclosure in South African HIV-positive pregnant women.

    Jennifer D Makin;Brian W.C. Forsyth;Maretha J Visser;Kathleen J. Sikkema

  • Use of a Brief Behavioral Skills Intervention to Prevent HIV Infection Among Chronic Mentally Ill Adults

    Seth C. Kalichman;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Jeffrey A. Kelly;Marita Bulto

  • Psychological symptoms among persons 50 years of age and older living with HIV disease.

    T. G. Heckman;B. D. Heckman;A. Kochman;K. J. Sikkema

  • In Their Own Voices A Qualitative Study of Women's Risk for Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in South Africa

    Ashley M. Fox;Sharon S. Jackson;Nathan B. Hansen;Nolwazi Gasa

  • Childhood Maltreatment and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders A Systematic Review

    Karmel W. Choi;Kathleen J. Sikkema

  • HIV/AIDS stigma in a South African community

    M.J. Visser;J.D. Makin;Alain Marc Vandormael;Kathleen J. Sikkema

  • Outcomes from a Group Intervention for Coping with HIV/AIDS and Childhood Sexual Abuse: Reductions in Traumatic Stress

    Kathleen J. Sikkema;Nathan B. Hansen;Arlene Kochman;Nalini Tarakeshwar

  • Information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model: Testing direct and mediated treatment effects on condom use among women in low-income housing

    Eileen S. Anderson;David A. Wagstaff;Timothy G. Heckman;Richard A. Winett

  • Mental Health Treatment to Reduce HIV Transmission Risk Behavior: A Positive Prevention Model

    Kathleen J. Sikkema;Melissa H. Watt;Anya S. Drabkin;Christina S. Meade

  • Resilience, stress, and life quality in older adults living with HIV/AIDS.

    Xindi Fang;Wilson Vincent;Sarah K. Calabrese;Timothy G. Heckman

  • Reducing mental illness stigma in healthcare settings: Proof of concept for a social contact intervention to address what matters most for primary care providers.

    Brandon A. Kohrt;Brandon A. Kohrt;Elizabeth L. Turner;Sauharda Rai;Anvita Bhardwaj

  • Long-term correlates of childhood abuse among adults with severe mental illness: adult victimization, substance abuse, and HIV sexual risk behavior.

    Christina S. Meade;Christina S. Meade;Trace S. Kershaw;Nathan B. Hansen;Kathleen J. Sikkema;Kathleen J. Sikkema

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan B. Hansen
Nathan B. Hansen University of Georgia
Seth C. Kalichman
Seth C. Kalichman University of Connecticut
Jeffrey A. Kelly
Jeffrey A. Kelly Medical College of Wisconsin
Timothy G. Heckman
Timothy G. Heckman University of Georgia
Christina S. Meade
Christina S. Meade Duke University
Karmel W. Choi
Karmel W. Choi Massachusetts General Hospital
Lisa A. Eaton
Lisa A. Eaton University of Connecticut
Roger A. Roffman
Roger A. Roffman University of Washington
Richard A. Winett
Richard A. Winett Virginia Tech
Debra A. Murphy
Debra A. Murphy University of California, Los Angeles

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