An Examination of the Perceived Social Support Levels of Women in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs Who Experience Various Forms of Intimate Partner Violence

Panchanadeswaran, Subadra; El-Bassel, Nabila; Gilbert, Louisa; Wu, Elwin; Chang, Mingway

doi:10.1016/j.whi.2007.10.007

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Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 35-43, January 2008

An Examination of the Perceived Social Support Levels of Women in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs Who Experience Various Forms of Intimate Partner Violence

Subadra Panchanadeswaran, PhD
- Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, New York
- Subadra Panchanadeswaran is an Assistant Professor at the Adelphi University School of Social Work. Her research interests include domestic violence, health effects of abuse and trauma on immigrant women, and HIV/AIDS. She is a trained social worker with international work and research experience with communities and abuse survivors.
- Correspondence to: Dr. Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Adelphi University School of Social Work, 1 South Avenue, Room 343, Garden City, New York 11530.
Nabila El-Bassel, DSW
- Social Intervention Group, Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, New York
- Nabila El-Bassel is a Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Director of the Social Intervention Group, which was established in 1990 as a multidisciplinary research center on HIV and drug abuse. She is also the Executive Director of the Columbia University Global Health Research Center of Central Asia. Over the past 18 years, Dr. El-Bassel has designed and tested HIV prevention strategies in clinical trials for women, men, and couples. She has also been funded to train junior faculty and research scientists on HIV prevention intervention science. Dr. El-Bassel has published more than 150 papers and has played a prominent role in national and international leadership to combat the HIV epidemic.
Louisa Gilbert, MS
- Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, New York
- Louisa Gilbert is Co-Director of the Social Intervention Group (SIG) and Co-Director of the Columbia University Global Health Research Center in Central Asia. She has served as a Co-Investigator on six National Institutes of Health funded studies. She has co-authored more than 50 articles with El-Bassel and has presented papers at several international and national conferences on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.
Elwin Wu, PhD
- Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, New York
- Elwin Wu is an Assistant Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) and an Associate Director of the CUSSW Social Intervention Group, which focuses on the overlapping epidemics of drug abuse, intimate partner violence, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Wu is conducting research examining the predictors of the different trajectories of pro-social change among participants attending alternative to incarceration programs. In addition, Dr. Wu is developing and testing a couples-based HIV/STI preventive intervention for drug-involved men of color in same-sex relationships.
Mingway Chang, MA
- Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, New York
- Mingway Chang is a statistician at the Social Intervention Group. His research interests include mathematical methods for theory building, methodological issues of survey research and structural equation modeling. His current research focus is to analyze couple data with discrepancies between partners’ responses.