Barbara VanOss Marín's research while affiliated with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other places

... One hypothesis posited to explain the epidemiological paradox includes the erosion of protective cultural processes as acculturation occurs. Research suggests that certain features of the Latino culture may enhance resilience, such as familism and religiousness [44]. Specifically, the retention of some traditional cultural values appears to protect adolescents from engaging in health risk behaviors [45]. ...

... On May 1, 2001, the agency issued the first program announcement (01-096) for proposals for research on LGBT health. Similarly, in 1997, the NIH funded the launch of the Collaborative HIV Prevention in Minority Communities Program at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco (Marín & Díaz, 2002), a program that provided training, technical assistance, and seed grants to enable researchers working with racial and ethnic minorities to develop their research programs, many of which included LGBT people of color. More recently, the NIH commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2011) report on the health of LGBT individuals. ...

... For the parenting and family domain, we utilized a multidimensional factor approach to derive scores for five subdomains targeted for change in the intervention (see Online Resource 1): positive parenting (Barnes & Olson, 1985;Dumka et al., 2009;Schaefer, 1965;Small & Kerns, 1993;Stattin & Kerr, 2000), negative parenting (Caples & Barrera, 2006;Ruiz et al., 1998;Schaefer, 1965), interparental conflict (Spanier, 1976;Straus et al., 1996;Tschann et al., 1999), mindful parenting (Duncan, 2007), and family cohesion (Olson et al., 1982). There was good model fit for the overall five factor structure (χ 2 (66) = 391.21, ...

... In response to reported correlations between being MISM and engaging in HIV risk behavior (Benotsch et al., 2000;Bull and McFarlane, 2000;Elford et al., 2000;Halkitis and Parsons, 2003;Reitmeijer et al., 2003) we initiated the Men's INTernet Study (MINTS), a Web-based, cross-sectional study to investigate the dynamics of Internet use and HIV risk. We focused on Latino MSM -one of the highest HIV risk populations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004;Díaz, 1998;Marín et al., 1998;Thometz et al., 2000) and one with identified cultural barriers to HIV prevention including machismo and negative conceptualizations of homosexuality (Díaz, 1998;Marín et al., 1998;Thometz et al. 2000;Seibt et al., 1995). When we began our research in 2002, only one report (from Sweden) had been published. ...

... However, aggression among adolescents as rarely addressed in the majority of research. Studies on aggressive behavior in romantic relationships relied primarily on the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) [18] in some form, or selected questions from the measure were used to measure aggressive behavior in romantic relationship [14,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Among the studies, the most frequent measures used after the CTS were the Conflict in Relationship Scale [28,[37][38][39][40][41], the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) [42][43][44], Aggression and Social Behavior Measure (SRASMB) [44,45], and Partner-Directed Cyber Aggression [46]. ...

... Although more resistant parents reported a sense of belonging to Anglo culture, overall, few parents selected Anglo-only culture in response to items on the cultural belonging scale. This suggests that this population maintains a strong sense of belongingness with the Hispanic culture, consistent with research indicating that although certain features of Hispanic culture may become more acculturated, aspects such as familism and religiosity remain important [59]. Relatedly, perceived discrimination of Hispanic patients by healthcare providers was low in this sample and not significantly associated with vaccination intent, suggesting that Hispanic cultural constructs such as confianza (trust) and respeto (deference to) toward the authoritative position of health care providers [60,61] may buffer the negative effect of acculturation on pediatric vaccine intentions. ...

... Additionally, the survey included a section with two items assessing parents' selfidentified weight and their perceptions of their preschool-age child's weight status (underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese), a section on sociodemographic characteristics (age, marital status, country of birth, years of residency in the U.S., primary language spoken, educational attainment, and annual household income) used in several of our previous studies with Brazilian immigrants in the U.S. [31,[46][47][48][49][50][51], access and type of health insurance, and participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) [31,[46][47][48][49][50][51]. Finally, the survey included the Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (SASH), a 12-item scale assessing participants' acculturation level [52] that was used in our previous studies with Brazilian parents [31,[46][47][48][49]. As recommended by the SASH developers, acculturation scores were computed by averaging across the 12 items, measured on a scale of 1 to 5, and scores were then dichotomized (high vs. low) [31,52,53]. ...

... We did not have sufficient numbers of gender and sexual minorities to examine group differences. In line with other studies, future research examining the evolving gender and sexuality constructs among Latinx AYA affected by HIV in the US may be important to prevention efforts [50]. ...

... In their analysis, they argue with others in the field (i.e. Coates et al., 1996) that it is only through a variety of research methods and approaches, often in combination with each other at multiple levels that HIV/ AIDS education success can be measured. ...

... The family system can be a safe space for creating interpersonal relationships, which are the basis of support and resources necessary for solving different life problems (Campos, Ullman, Aguilera, Dunkel Schetter, 2014;Killoren, Wheeler, Updegraff, McHale, Umaña-Taylor, 2021;Son, ment to and dependence on the family. In the studies of familism, its three most important components were identified, such as: obligations to the family and its members, family support and dependence on the family understood as a reference group (Marín, Marín, 1991). In this study, it is assumed that familism has five dimensions, such as: Family support, Respect, Religion, Material success and achievements and Individualism. ...