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W Scott Comulada

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Articles 95
Citations 1686
Followers 0
Related Specialties
Infectious Diseases
General Medicine
Psychiatry
Top 10 Co-Authors
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Dallas Swendeman
Mark Tomlinson
Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold
Sung-Jae Lee
M Isabel Fernandez
Robert E Weiss
Li Li
Pamina M Gorbach
Katherine A Desmond
Published In
AIDS Behav
Prev Sci
JMIR Res Protoc
AIDS Care
Vulnerable Child Youth Stud
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Recent Articles
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Assessing Alternative Imputation Strategies for Infrequently Missing Items on Multi-item Scales
Rezvan P, Comulada W, Fernandez M, Belin T
Commun Stat Case Stud Data Anal Appl . 2022 Dec; 8(4):682-713. PMID: 36467970
Health-science researchers often measure psychological constructs using multi-item scales and encounter missing items on some participants. Multiple imputation (MI) has emerged as an alternative to methods (e.g., mean substitution) for...
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Substance Use, Violence, and Sexual Risk Among Young Cis-Gender Women Placed at High-Risk for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Vavala G, Wang Q, Jimenez S, Ramos W, Ocasio M, Romero-Espinoza A, et al.
AIDS Behav . 2022 Mar; 26(9):3008-3015. PMID: 35303189
The substance use, violence, and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic framework is used to study risk for HIV/AIDS. As a secondary analysis from a large HIV/AIDS prevention study, we categorized participants into...
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How to apply variable selection machine learning algorithms with multiply imputed data: A missing discussion
Gunn H, Rezvan P, Fernandez M, Comulada W
Psychol Methods . 2022 Feb; 28(2):452-471. PMID: 35113633
Psychological researchers often use standard linear regression to identify relevant predictors of an outcome of interest, but challenges emerge with incomplete data and growing numbers of candidate predictors. Regularization methods...
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Where you live matters: Township neighborhood factors important to resilience among south African children from birth to 5 years of age
Christodoulou J, Rotheram-Borus M, Rezvan P, Comulada W, Stewart J, Almirol E, et al.
Prev Med . 2022 Jan; 157:106966. PMID: 35065975
Objective: This is a secondary analysis examining neighborhood factors predicting high rates of child resilience in South African Township neighborhoods. Methods: A population cohort of South African pregnant women (98%;...
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Risk Behaviors Associated with Patterns of Sexualized Stimulant and Alcohol Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men: a Latent Class Analysis
Blair C, Needleman J, Javanbakht M, Comulada W, Ragsdale A, Bolan R, et al.
J Urban Health . 2022 Jan; 99(2):293-304. PMID: 35028876
Substance use during sexual encounters (sexualized substance use) is an important driver of HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) disparities that are experienced by men who have sex with men...
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Response Patterns to Weekly Short Message Service Health Surveys Among Diverse Youth at High Risk for Acquiring HIV
Tang W, Gunn H, Kwok S, Comulada W, Arnold E, Swendeman D, et al.
AIDS Behav . 2022 Jan; 26(7):2229-2241. PMID: 35018546
HIV researchers use short messaging service (SMS)-based surveys to monitor health behaviors more closely than what would be possible with in-person assessment. Benefits are tempered by nonresponse to completing surveys....
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Examining the Relative Contributions of Methamphetamine Use, Depression, and Sexual Risk Behavior on Rectal Gonorrhea/Chlamydia Among a Cohort of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Los Angeles, California
Blair C, Needleman J, Javanbakht M, Comulada W, Ragsdale A, Bolan R, et al.
Sex Transm Dis . 2021 Oct; 49(3):216-222. PMID: 34654768
Background: Methamphetamine use, sexual risk behaviors, and depression contribute to ongoing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infection (STI) disparities among men who have sex with men (MSM). The...
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Adolescents may accurately self-collect pharyngeal and rectal clinical specimens for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection
Vavala G, Goldbeck C, Bristow C, Stafylis C, Adamson P, Polanco D, et al.
PLoS One . 2021 Sep; 16(9):e0255878. PMID: 34570799
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated the benefits of telemedicine. Self-collected specimens are a promising alternative to clinician-collected specimens when in-person testing is not feasible. In this study, we assessed the...
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Preliminary Efficacy and Acceptability of an Online Exercise and Nutrition Workplace Wellness Program: A Brief Report
SantaBarbara N, Rezai R, Terry E, Shedd K, Comulada W
Workplace Health Saf . 2021 Sep; 70(2):90-96. PMID: 34558353
Background: Workplace wellness programs (WWP) offer physiological and psychological benefits to employees and financial and productivity benefits to employers. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented in-person sessions and has required...
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Psychiatric hospitalization among youth at high risk for HIV
Rezvan P, Rezai R, Comulada W, Lee S, Arnold E, Swendeman D, et al.
AIDS Care . 2021 Jun; 34(8):1073-1082. PMID: 34165345
Youth at-risk for HIV are also at-risk for mental health disorders and psychiatric hospitalization. Understanding the association between engagement in HIV prevention, concurrent risk behaviors, and psychiatric hospitalization may lead...