Publications by authors named "D G Karus"
Over half of HIV infections in the U.S. are among young gay, bisexual, and other same-gender-loving men (SGLM).
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- Young men of color who have sex with men (yMSM) living with HIV face challenges in staying in care, which leads to poor health outcomes despite available treatment options.
- A new approach called early palliative care management was introduced to outpatient HIV staff to better address the complexities of yMSM patients, resulting in improved quality of life scores at the intervention site compared to a control site.
- The study highlighted that outpatient staff experience more stress from environmental factors than from patients' health issues, and community stakeholder input played a crucial role in shaping the study's practices and educational messages.
This study compares the self-assessments of 67 late-stage HIV/AIDS patients regarding their symptomatology, sense of self-worth, and several other aspects of their health-care situation, to assessments of that situation provided by their informal caregivers. As part of a dyadic study of care preferences, the patients and caregivers independently completed nearly identical versions of the Palliative Care Outcome Scale, a short 10-item measure of the patient's current health, social, and psychological status. The participants in the study were recruited from inpatient and outpatient services at an urban medical center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To examine the associations between various patient, disease, situation, and caregiver characteristics (organized by five conceptual domains) and global self-esteem among caregiver daughters to parents with cancer.
Method: Dyads comprised of 237 cancer outpatients and their adult caregiving daughter completed structured telephone interviews.
Results: Two of the five domains of potential correlates significantly predicted caregiving daughters' global self-esteem-daughters' sociodemographics and constraints on/facilitators of caregiving.
Male inmates with HIV/AIDS being served by case-management programs for those seriously ill in jails in Los Angeles (n = 34) and New Orleans (n = 20) are described and compared. At both sites, most were Black and poor with a history of substance abuse. Psychological functioning (Mental Health Inventory [MHI-5]) scores indicated poor mental health.
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