Kathleen J Sikkema, Professor

Kathleen J Sikkema

Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991 edit
mailing address: Duke University Box 90086 Durham, NC 27708-0086
office: 225 Soc/Psych
email:
phone: (919) 684-9073

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Research Summary:
 Kathleen J. Sikkema, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University, is a clinical psychologist with emphases in health and community psychology, and the Director of the Social and Behavioral Science Core in Duke's Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). She is an internationally recognized expert in the conduct of randomized, controlled HIV prevention and mental health intervention trials. Dr. Sikkema’s research has been supported by the National Institute Health for nearly 20 years and her interventions have been recognized by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as “best evidence interventions” for HIV prevention. Dr. Sikkema's research is focused on the development and evaluation of HIV risk behavior change interventions, with expertise in community-level interventions. She has served as the P.I. of two multi-site, community level interventions trials, one undertaken with women and the other with adolescents living in low-income housing developments in geographically diverse U.S. cities. Dr. Sikkema conducted two other prevention intervention studies, one with abused women in South Africa and the other among persons with severe mental illness who are formerly homeless and currently living in supportive housing programs. She is currently testing a brief, primary care-based risk reduction intervention for newly diagnosed men, and has conducted research related to acute HIV infection. Dr. Sikkema also conducts research on the development of HIV-related coping and secondary prevention interventions and has been the PI of three randomized, controlled trials evaluating group interventions for men and women with HIV. Her HIV mental health research has focused on developing group intervention models to assist persons with HIV disease who are coping with HIV-related stressors. These include AIDS-related loss and bereavement, traumatic stress due to childhood sexual abuse, and issues specific to coping with HIV among men and women over 50 years of age. Dr. Sikkema is currently involved in three South African studies, one to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-based intervention to increase resiliency among children with HIV-positive mothers, another to develop a risk reduction intervention for adolescents in biomedical prevention trials, and a multimethod and multilevel longitudinal study to inform development of innovative intervention approaches related to gender and alcohol use.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. KJ Sikkema, MH Watt, AS Drabkin, CS Meade, NB Hansen, BW Pence (2009). Mental Health Treatment to Reduce HIV Transmission Risk Behavior: A Positive Prevention Model.. AIDS and behavior.  [abs]
  2. KJ Sikkema, SA Neufeld, NB Hansen, R Mohlahlane, MJ Van Rensburg, MH Watt, AM Fox, M Crewe (2009). Integrating HIV Prevention into Services for Abused Women in South Africa.. AIDS and behavior.  [abs]
  3. KJ Sikkema, PA Wilson, NB Hansen, A Kochman, S Neufeld, MS Ghebremichael, T Kershaw (2008). Effects of a coping intervention on transmission risk behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS and a history of childhood sexual abuse.. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes, United States, 47(4), 506-13.  [abs]
  4. KJ Sikkema, NB Hansen, A Kochman, N Tarakeshwar, S Neufeld, CS Meade, AM Fox (2007). Outcomes from a group intervention for coping with HIV/AIDS and childhood sexual abuse: reductions in traumatic stress.. AIDS and behavior, United States, 11(1), 49-60.  [abs]
  5. KJ Sikkema, NB Hansen, M Ghebremichael, A Kochman, N Tarakeshwar, CS Meade, H Zhang (2006). A randomized controlled trial of a coping group intervention for adults with HIV who are AIDS bereaved: longitudinal effects on grief.. Health psychology, United States, 25(5), 563-70.  [abs]
  6. KJ Sikkema, ES Anderson, JA Kelly, RA Winett, C Gore-Felton, RA Roffman, TG Heckman, K Graves, RG Hoffmann, MJ Brondino (2005). Outcomes of a randomized, controlled community-level HIV prevention intervention for adolescents in low-income housing developments.. AIDS (London, England), England, 19(14), 1509-16.  [abs]
  7. KJ Sikkema, NB Hansen, CS Meade, A Kochman, RS Lee (2005). Improvements in health-related quality of life following a group intervention for coping with AIDS-bereavement among HIV-infected men and women.. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, Netherlands, 14(4), 991-1005.  [abs]
  8. KJ Sikkema, JA Kelly, RA Winett, LJ Solomon, VA Cargill, RA Roffman, TL McAuliffe, TG Heckman, EA Anderson, DA Wagstaff, AD Norman, MJ Perry, DA Crumble, MB Mercer (2000). Outcomes of a randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention for women living in 18 low-income housing developments.. American journal of public health, UNITED STATES, 90(1), 57-63.  [abs]

Courses (Spring 2010):

  • Psy 155s.01, Community intervention researc
    Soc/psych 237, M 10:05 AM-12:35 PM