@article{58b6f84a7052424b8b192e17498cad93,
title = "The acquisition and maintenance of safer sexual behaviors among injection drug users",
abstract = "The current research tests stage-sequential models of safer sexual behavior using a new method for data analysis called Latent Transition Analysis (LTA). Results are presented from data collected on 359 injection drug users participating in a seroconversion study conducted by the UCLA Drug Abuse Research Center. We identified a six-stage model that adequately represented the data. Results indicate that respondents moved back and forth among high, medium, and low risk stages. This finding highlights the need for continual, sustained interventions to help maintain safer sex and drug using behaviors in highrisk groups.",
author = "Posner, \{Samuel F.\} and Collins, \{Linda M.\} and Douglas Longshore and Anglin, \{M. Douglas\}",
note = "Funding Information: from the University of Connecticut, where she received the Orbison Award as the outstanding senior ma-joring in Psychology. She was awarded the Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Southern California. Collins spent several years as part of the faculty of USC{\textquoteright}s Institute for Prevention Re-search. In 1986 she joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at USC, where she was a member of the J. P. Guilford Laboratory of Quantitative Psychology. In 1994 she joined the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, where she is currently Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Director of The Methodology Center. Collins{\textquoteright} interests center on measurement and analysis, of developmental and longitudinal data, particularly in the context of adolescent substance use research. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She has published in numerous technical and substantive journals. Collins edited (with John Horn) the book Rest Methodsjiir fhe Analysis of Chunge, and also edited (with, Larry Seitz) the National Institute on Drug Abuse monograph Advances in Dam Analysis for Prevention Intervention Research. Collins serves as associate editor for the journal Multivariate Behavioral Research and is a past associate edi--tor of the Journul of Educational Sfafistics. In 1991 she won the Cattell Award for outstanding contributions to multivariate behavioral research. She is cur--rently president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. Funding Information: This research was supported by NIDA Grants DA05589 to Doug Anglin and Doug Longshore, and DA04111 to Linda M. Collins.",
year = "1996",
doi = "10.3109/10826089609066448",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "31",
pages = "1995--2015",
journal = "Substance Use and Misuse",
issn = "1082-6084",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "14",
}
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