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K. Rivet Amico, Ph.D.   K. Rivet Amico, Ph.D.
Consultant, CHIP
Phone: (810) 225-0219
Email:
rivetamico@comcast.net

Research Overview
Dr. K. Rivet Amico is a consultant for intervention design, research methods, and statistical analyses. She has publications in the area of risky behaviors, HIV risk behavior and resistance, and antiretroviral adherence. Her primary focus at CHIP is adherence, with additional interests in assessment methods and model evaluation via SEM and HLM, the development and evaluation of interventions to promote health behavior, and theory development.

Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1998 (counseling psychology)
B.A., University of Delaware, 1991 (psychology)

Featured Publications
Amico KR, Fisher WA, Cornman DH, Shuper PA, Redding CG, Konkle-Parker DJ, Barta W, & Fisher JD. (In Press). Visual Analog Scale of ART Adherence: Association With 3-Day Self-Report and Adherence Barriers. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Fisher, J.D., Fisher, W.A., Amico, R., & Harman, J.J. (In Press). An information-motivation-behavioral skills model of adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Health Psychology.

Kozal MJ, Amico KR, Chiarella J, Cornman D, Fisher W, Fisher J, Friedland G. (2006). A Population-Based and Longitudinal Study of Sexual Behavior and Multidrug-Resistant HIV Among Patients in Clinical Care. eJournal of the International AIDS Society, 8(2): 72.

Starace, F., Massa, A., Amico, R., Fisher, J.D. (2006). Adherence to antiretroviral therapy: An empirical test of the information-motivation-behavioral skills model. Health Psychology, 25 (2): 153-162.

Amico, KR, Harman, JJ, Johnson, BT. (2006). Efficacy of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Interventions: A Research Synthesis of Trials, 1996 to 2004. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 41(3), 285-297.

Amico, K.R., Toro-Alfonso, J., Fisher, J.D. (2005). An empirical test of the information, motivation, behavioral skills model of antiretroviral therapy adherence. AIDS Care, 17(6), 661-673.

Harman JJ, Amico RA, Johnson BT. (2005). Standard of Care: Promoting antiretroviral adherence in clinical care. AIDS Care, 2: 237-251.

Kozal MJ, Amico KR, Chiarella J, Schreibman T, Cornman D, Fisher W, Fisher J, Friedland G. (2005). HIV Drug Resistance and HIV Transmission Risk Behaviors in Injection Drug Users. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 41(1), 106-109.

Fisher, J.D., Cornman, D.H., Osborn, C.Y., Amico, K.R., Fisher, W.A., & Friedland, G.H. (2004). Clinician-initiated HIV-risk reduction intervention for HIV+ persons: Formative research, acceptability, and fidelity of the options project. JAIDS, 37(2), S78-S87.

Kozal, M. J., Amico, R., Chiarella, J., Schreibman, T., Cornman, D., Fisher, W.A., Fisher, J. D., Friedland, G. (2004). Antiretroviral resistance and high-risk transmission behavior among HIV-positive patients in clinical care. AIDS, 18, 2185-2189.

Bruch, M. A., Rivet, K. M., & Laurenti, H. J. (2000). Type of Self-Discrepancy and relationships to components of the tripartite model of emotional distress. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 37-44.

Bruch, M. A., Rivet, K. M., Heimberg, R. G, Hunt, A., & McIntosh, B. (1999). Shyness and sociotropy: Evidence of additive and interactive relations in predicting social dysfunction. Journal of Personality, 67(2), 373-406.

Rivet, K. M. (1998). Shyness and self-discrepancy: A mediated model. Doctoral dissertation at the University at Albany, Albany, New York.

Fromme, K., Katz, E. C., & Rivet, K. (1997). Outcome expectancies and risk-taking behavior. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 21, 421-442.

Bruch, M. A., Rivet, K. M., Heimberg, R. G., & Levin, M. A. (1997). Shyness, alcohol expectancies, and drinking behavior: Replication and extension of a suppressor effect. Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 193-200.

Fromme, K., & Rivet, K. (1993). Young adults' coping style as a predictor of their alcohol use and response to daily events. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 23, 1-13.

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