Publications by authors named "Karlye A Phillips"
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- The study investigates how PTSD and major depressive disorder (MDD) symptoms affect HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) motivation among women who have survived intimate partner violence (IPV).
- Researchers analyzed data from 285 women in Baltimore and New Haven, identifying six distinct profiles based on their PTSD and MDD symptoms.
- The findings suggest that women with very low symptoms of both PTSD and depression were less likely to advance in the PrEP Motivational Cascade compared to those with higher symptoms, indicating that mental health significantly impacts PrEP motivation.
Background: Housing instability is highly prevalent among intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors, and the coupling consequences of structural racism, sexism, classism, and the COVID-19 pandemic, may create more barriers to safe and adequate housing, specifically for Black women IPV survivors. In particular, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic had the potential to amplify disadvantages for Black women IPV survivors, yet very little research has acknowledged it. Therefore, the current study sought to assess the experiences of housing insecurity among Black women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) while navigating racism, sexism, and classism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- The study explores the link between dissociation, specifically derealization, and adverse psychiatric outcomes following trauma, aiming to understand if it can help identify at-risk individuals.
- It uses self-reported data and brain imaging from participants two weeks post-trauma to assess the predictive power of derealization on later symptoms like PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
- The results indicate that persistent derealization is a significant early marker, both psychologically and biologically, for predicting worse mental health outcomes, highlighting the need for assessing dissociation after trauma.
Multiomic biological approaches to the study of child abuse and neglect.
Pharmacol Biochem Behav
November 2021
Childhood maltreatment, occurring in up to 20-30% of the population, remains far too common, and incorporates a range of active and passive factors, from abuse, to neglect, to the impacts of broader structural and systemic adversity. Despite the effects of childhood maltreatment and adversity on a wide range of adult physical and psychological negative outcomes, not all individuals respond similarly. Understanding the differential biological mechanisms contributing to risk vs.
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- The study investigated sex differences in autonomic functioning among individuals with PTSD, noting that PTSD rates are higher in women.
- It found that men had higher systolic blood pressure, while women showed higher heart rates and lower heart rate variability, especially those who developed PTSD.
- The results suggest significant sex differences in autonomic responses to trauma, highlighting potential cardiovascular risks linked to PTSD, which should be further explored in future research.
Background: Deficits in safety signal learning are well-established in fear-related disorders (e.g., PTSD, phobias).
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