Brian W Pence

Brian W Pence
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Office Location: Erwin Terrace 445 / Trent 102
Office Fax: 919
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Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. Adams JL, Gaynes BN, McGuinness T, Modi R, Willig J, Pence BW.  “Treating depression within the HIV ”medical home”: A guided algorithm for antidepressant management by HIV clinicians.”  AIDS Patient Care and STDs: In press, 2012.   .
  2. Bess K, Adams JL, Watt MH, O’Donnell JK, Gaynes BN, Thielman NM, Heine A, Zinski A, Raper JL, Pence BW.  “Providers’ Attitudes Towards Treating Depression and Self-Reported Depression Treatment Practices in HIV Outpatient Care.”  AIDS Patient Care & STDs.  In press, 2012.   .
  3. Pence BW, Mugavero MJ, Carter TJ, Leserman J, Thielman NM, Raper JL, Proeschold-Bell RJ, Reif S, Whetten K.  "Childhood trauma and health outcomes in HIV-infected patients: An exploration of causal pathways."  JAIDS.  In press (2011). .
  4. J Barroso, BG Hammill, J Leserman, N Salahuddin, JL Harmon, BW Pence, Physiological and psychosocial factors that predict HIV-related fatigue., AIDS and behavior, vol. 14 no. 6 (December, 2010), pp. 1415-27 [doi]  [abs].
  5. BW Pence, JL Raper, S Reif, NM Thielman, J Leserman, MJ Mugavero, Incident stressful and traumatic life events and human immunodeficiency virus sexual transmission risk behaviors in a longitudinal, multisite cohort study., Psychosomatic medicine, vol. 72 no. 7 (September, 2010), pp. 720-6 [doi]  [abs].
  6. KJ Sikkema, MH Watt, AS Drabkin, CS Meade, NB Hansen, BW Pence, Mental health treatment to reduce HIV transmission risk behavior: a positive prevention model., AIDS and behavior, vol. 14 no. 2 (April, 2010), pp. 252-62 [doi]  [abs].
  7. D Westreich, BW Pence, AN Turner, In populo., Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), vol. 21 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 152-3 [doi]  [abs].
  8. Proeschold-Bell RJ, Heine A, Pence BW, McAdam K, Quinlivan EB.  “A cross-site, comparative effectiveness study of an integrated HIV and substance use treatment program.”  AIDS Patient Care and STDs, in press. .
  9. Reif S, Mugavero MJ, Raper JL, Thielman NM, Leserman J, Whetten K, Pence BW.  “Highly Stressed: Stressful and Traumatic Experiences among individuals with HIV/AIDS in the Deep South.”  AIDS Care, in press. .
  10. MJ Mugavero, JL Raper, S Reif, K Whetten, J Leserman, NM Thielman, BW Pence, Overload: impact of incident stressful events on antiretroviral medication adherence and virologic failure in a longitudinal, multisite human immunodeficiency virus cohort study., Psychosomatic medicine, vol. 71 no. 9 (November, 2009), pp. 920-6 [doi]  [abs].
  11. MR Khan, JS Kaufman, BW Pence, BN Gaynes, AA Adimora, SS Weir, WC Miller, Depression, sexually transmitted infection, and sexual risk behavior among young adults in the United States., Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, vol. 163 no. 7 (July, 2009), pp. 644-52 [doi]  [abs].
  12. BW Pence, WC Miller, BN Gaynes, Prevalence estimation and validation of new instruments in psychiatric research: an application of latent class analysis and sensitivity analysis., Psychological assessment, vol. 21 no. 2 (June, 2009), pp. 235-9 [doi]  [abs].
  13. BW Pence, J Barroso, JL Harmon, J Leserman, N Salahuddin, BG Hammill, Chronicity and remission of fatigue in patients with established HIV infection., AIDS patient care and STDs, vol. 23 no. 4 (April, 2009), pp. 239-44 [doi]  [abs].
  14. BW Pence, The impact of mental health and traumatic life experiences on antiretroviral treatment outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS., The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, vol. 63 no. 4 (April, 2009), pp. 636-40 [doi]  [abs].
  15. N Salahuddin, J Barroso, J Leserman, JL Harmon, BW Pence, Daytime sleepiness, nighttime sleep quality, stressful life events, and HIV-related fatigue., The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC, vol. 20 no. 1 (March, 2009), pp. 6-13 [doi]  [abs].
  16. K Whetten, J Ostermann, RA Whetten, BW Pence, K O'Donnell, LC Messer, NM Thielman, Positive Outcomes for Orphans (POFO) Research Team, A comparison of the wellbeing of orphans and abandoned children ages 6-12 in institutional and community-based care settings in 5 less wealthy nations., PloS one, vol. 4 no. 12 (2009), pp. e8169 [doi]  [abs].
  17. Sikkema KJ, Watt MH, Drabkin AS, Meade CS, Hansen NB, Pence BW.  Mental Health Treatment to Reduce HIV Transmission Risk Behavior: A Positive Prevention Model.  AIDS Behavior and Education.  In press, 2009. .
  18. BW Pence, NM Thielman, K Whetten, J Ostermann, V Kumar, MJ Mugavero, Coping strategies and patterns of alcohol and drug use among HIV-infected patients in the United States Southeast., AIDS patient care and STDs, vol. 22 no. 11 (November, 2008), pp. 869-77 [doi]  [abs].
  19. J Leserman, J Barroso, BW Pence, N Salahuddin, JL Harmon, Trauma, stressful life events and depression predict HIV-related fatigue., AIDS care, vol. 20 no. 10 (November, 2008), pp. 1258-65 [doi]  [abs].
  20. BW Pence, J Barroso, J Leserman, JL Harmon, N Salahuddin, Measuring fatigue in people living with HIV/AIDS: psychometric characteristics of the HIV-related fatigue scale., AIDS care, vol. 20 no. 7 (August, 2008), pp. 829-37 [doi]  [abs].
  21. BN Gaynes, BW Pence, JJ Eron Jr, WC Miller, Prevalence and comorbidity of psychiatric diagnoses based on reference standard in an HIV+ patient population., Psychosomatic medicine, vol. 70 no. 4 (May, 2008), pp. 505-11 [doi]  [abs].
  22. BW Pence, J Ostermann, V Kumar, K Whetten, N Thielman, MJ Mugavero, The influence of psychosocial characteristics and race/ethnicity on the use, duration, and success of antiretroviral therapy., Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), vol. 47 no. 2 (February, 2008), pp. 194-201 [doi]  [abs].
  23. Pence BW, J Barroso, J Leserman, JL Harmon, N Salahuddin.  “Measuring fatigue in people living with HIV/AIDS: Psychometric characteristics of the HIV-Related Fatigue Scale.”  AIDS Care.  In press, 2008. .
  24. Pence BW, J Barroso, JL Harmon, J Leserman, N Salahuddin, BG Hammill.  “Chronicity and remission of fatigue in patients with established HIV infection.”  AIDS Patient Care and STDs.  In press, 2008. .
  25. Pence BW, N Thielman, K Whetten, J Ostermann, V Kumar, MJ Mugavero.  “Coping strategies and patterns of alcohol and drug use among HIV-infected patients in the U.S. Southeast.”  AIDS Patient Care and STDs.  In press, 2008. .
  26. BW Pence, S Reif, K Whetten, J Leserman, D Stangl, M Swartz, N Thielman, MJ Mugavero, Minorities, the poor, and survivors of abuse: HIV-infected patients in the US deep South., Southern medical journal, vol. 100 no. 11 (November, 2007), pp. 1114-22 [doi]  [abs].
  27. J Leserman, BW Pence, K Whetten, MJ Mugavero, NM Thielman, MS Swartz, D Stangl, Relation of lifetime trauma and depressive symptoms to mortality in HIV., The American journal of psychiatry, vol. 164 no. 11 (November, 2007), pp. 1707-13 [doi]  [abs].
  28. MJ Mugavero, BW Pence, K Whetten, J Leserman, M Swartz, D Stangl, NM Thielman, Childhood abuse and initial presentation for HIV care: an opportunity for early intervention., AIDS care, vol. 19 no. 9 (October, 2007), pp. 1083-7 [doi]  [abs].
  29. J Ostermann, V Kumar, BW Pence, K Whetten, Trends in HIV testing and differences between planned and actual testing in the United States, 2000-2005., Archives of internal medicine, vol. 167 no. 19 (October, 2007), pp. 2128-35 [doi]  [abs].
  30. MJ Mugavero, BW Pence, K Whetten, J Leserman, M Swartz, D Stangl, NM Thielman, Predictors of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality in a southern U.S. Cohort., AIDS patient care and STDs, vol. 21 no. 9 (September, 2007), pp. 681-90 [doi]  [abs].
  31. MB Hossain, JF Phillips, B Pence, The effect of women's status on infant and child mortality in four rural areas of Bangladesh., Journal of biosocial science, vol. 39 no. 3 (May, 2007), pp. 355-66 [doi]  [abs].
  32. BW Pence, WC Miller, BN Gaynes, JJ Eron Jr, Psychiatric illness and virologic response in patients initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy., Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), vol. 44 no. 2 (February, 2007), pp. 159-66 [doi]  [abs].
  33. BW Pence, P Nyarko, JF Phillips, C Debpuur, The effect of community nurses and health volunteers on child mortality: the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project., Scandinavian journal of public health, vol. 35 no. 6 (2007), pp. 599-608 [doi]  [abs].
  34. BW Pence, WC Miller, K Whetten, JJ Eron, BN Gaynes, Prevalence of DSM-IV-defined mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders in an HIV clinic in the Southeastern United States., Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), vol. 42 no. 3 (July, 2006), pp. 298-306 [doi]  [abs].
  35. R Whetten, K Whetten, BW Pence, S Reif, C Conover, S Bouis, Does distance affect utilization of substance abuse and mental health services in the presence of transportation services?, AIDS care, vol. 18 Suppl 1 (2006), pp. S27-34 [doi]  [abs].
  36. K Whetten, S Reif, J Ostermann, BW Pence, M Swartz, R Whetten, C Conover, S Bouis, N Thielman, J Eron, Improving health outcomes among individuals with HIV, mental illness, and substance use disorders in the Southeast., AIDS care, vol. 18 Suppl 1 (2006), pp. S18-26 [doi]  [abs].
  37. BW Pence, BN Gaynes, K Whetten, JJ Eron Jr, RW Ryder, WC Miller, Validation of a brief screening instrument for substance abuse and mental illness in HIV-positive patients., Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), vol. 40 no. 4 (December, 2005), pp. 434-44  [abs].
  38. CA Ford, BW Pence, WC Miller, MD Resnick, LH Bearinger, S Pettingell, M Cohen, Predicting adolescents' longitudinal risk for sexually transmitted infection: results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health., Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, vol. 159 no. 7 (July, 2005), pp. 657-64 [doi]  [abs].
  39. EK Glover, A Bannerman, BW Pence, H Jones, R Miller, E Weiss, J Nerquaye-Tetteh, Sexual health experiences of adolescents in three Ghanaian towns., International family planning perspectives, vol. 29 no. 1 (March, 2003), pp. 32-40 [doi]  [abs].
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