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Overview

Patricia M. Spittal is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans Medicine, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with a notable focus in Clinical Psychology, Health, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of their work include Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights; Migration, Health and Trauma; HIV, Drug Use, and Sexual Risk; Child Abuse and Trauma; Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects; Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum; and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions.

The researcher has published multiple papers in several journals. Recent publications include:

  • "The Cedar Project: Relationship between child apprehension and attempted suicide among young Indigenous mothers impacted by substance use in two Canadian cities" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "The Cedar Project - Mobile Phone Use and Acceptability of Mobile Health Among Young Indigenous People Who Have Used Drugs in British Columbia, Canada: Mixed Methods Exploratory Study" (2020, JMIR mhealth and uhealth)
  • "Culturally Safe, Strengths-Based Parenting Programs Supporting Indigenous Families Impacted by Substance Use-a Scoping Review" (2020, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction)
  • "Cango Lyec (Healing the Elephant): HIV incidence in post-conflict Northern Uganda" (2020, EClinicalMedicine)
  • "The Cedar Project: exploring the role of colonial harms and childhood maltreatment on HIV and hepatitis C infection in a cohort study involving young Indigenous people who use drugs in two Canadian cities" (2021, BMJ Open)

The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • PLoS ONE
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
  • EClinicalMedicine

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Kate Jongbloed
  • Martin T. Schechter
  • Margo Pearce
  • David Zamar
  • Sherri Pooyak

Best Publications

  • Intensive injection cocaine use as the primary risk factor in the Vancouver HIV-1 epidemic.

    Mark W Tyndall;Sue Currie;Patricia Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Opportunities for prevention: Hepatitis C prevalence and incidence in a cohort of young injection drug users

    Cari L. Miller;Caitlin Johnston;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Impacts of intensified police activity on injection drug users: Evidence from an ethnographic investigation

    Will Small;Thomas Kerr;John Charette;Martin T. Schechter

  • Risk factors for elevated HIV incidence rates among female injection drug users in Vancouver

    Patricia M. Spittal;Kevin J.P. Craib;Evan Wood;Nancy Laliberté

  • Unsafe injection practices in a cohort of injection drug users in Vancouver: Could safer injecting rooms help?

    Evan Wood;Mark W. Tyndall;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Risk factors for elevated HIV incidence among Aboriginal injection drug users in Vancouver

    Kevin J.P. Craib;Patricia M. Spittal;Evan Wood;Nancy Laliberte

  • Displacement of Canada's largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown

    Evan Wood;Patricia M. Spittal;Will Small;Thomas Kerr

  • Unstable housing, associated risk behaviour, and increased risk for HIV infection among injection drug users

    Trevor A. Corneil;Laura M. Kuyper;Jean Shoveller;Robert S. Hogg

  • Factors associated with persistent high-risk syringe sharing in the presence of an established needle exchange programme.

    Evan Wood;Mark W. Tyndall;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • The Cedar Project: historical trauma, sexual abuse and HIV risk among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in two Canadian cities

    Margo E. Pearce;Wayne M. Christian;Katharina Patterson

  • Impact of supply-side policies for control of illicit drugs in the face of the AIDS and overdose epidemics: investigation of a massive heroin seizure

    Evan Wood;Mark W. Tyndall;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Surviving the sex trade: A comparison of HIV risk behaviours among street-involved women in two Canadian cities who inject drugs

    P. M. Spittal;J. Bruneau;K. J. P. Craib;C. Miller

  • Sexual violence among a cohort of injection drug users.

    Paula Braitstein;Kathy Li;Mark Tyndall;Mark Tyndall;Patricia Spittal

  • Risky sexual behaviours among injection drugs users with high HIV prevalence: implications for STD control

    M W Tyndall;D Patrick;P Spittal;K Li

  • The potential public health and community impacts of safer injecting facilities: evidence from a cohort of injection drug users.

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Patricia M Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Incarceration, Addiction and Harm Reduction: Inmates Experience Injecting Drugs in Prison

    Will Small;S Kain;Nancy Laliberte;Martin T Schechter

  • Needle exchange and difficulty with needle access during an ongoing HIV epidemic

    Evan Wood;Evan Wood;Mark W. Tyndall;Mark W. Tyndall;Patricia M. Spittal;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • An external evaluation of a peer-run "unsanctioned" syringe exchange program.

    Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Patricia M. Spittal;William Small

  • The future face of coinfection: prevalence and incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus coinfection among young injection drug users.

    Cari L. Miller;Evan Wood;Patricia M. Spittal;Kathy Li

  • Requiring help injecting as a risk factor for HIV infection in the Vancouver epidemic: implications for HIV prevention.

    Evan Wood;Patricia M. Spittal;Patricia M. Spittal;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr;Will Small

Frequent Co-Authors

Will Small
Will Small Simon Fraser University
Joan L. Bottorff
Joan L. Bottorff University of British Columbia
Marina B. Klein
Marina B. Klein McGill University
Michael Krausz
Michael Krausz University of British Columbia
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Adeeba Kamarulzaman
Adeeba Kamarulzaman University of Malaya
Paula Braitstein
Paula Braitstein University of Toronto
Susan G. Sherman
Susan G. Sherman Johns Hopkins University
Jean Shoveller
Jean Shoveller University of British Columbia

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