Patricia Cioe

About

Patricia A. Cioe is an Adjunct Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health and an Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship at the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing. She earned her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in 2012 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, where she cross-trained in HIV, tobacco dependence, and other substance use disorders. Her research broadly focuses on cardiovascular risk reduction in people with HIV, with particular emphasis on smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction. Dr. Cioe has developed and pilot-tested tailored interventions that incorporate motivational interviewing and personalized feedback to improve cardiovascular risk perception and promote heart-healthy behaviors among people with HIV. Her current work involves developing innovative smoking cessation interventions for this population and examining the effects of cigarette smoking on HIV clinical outcomes, including biomarkers of inflammation and monocyte activation. She is also conducting research on the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems for harm reduction in smokers with HIV who are unable or unwilling to quit. Dr. Cioe has received recognition for her contributions, including the Nurse Researcher Recognition Award from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care in 2018 and being named Nurse Scientist of the Year by…

Research topics

• Psychiatry
• Medicine
• Intensive care medicine
• Internal medicine
• Gerontology
• Environmental health
• Virology

Selected publications

• Changes in Cigarette Consumption With Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes Among Smokers With Psychiatric Conditions or Socioeconomic Disadvantage

  JAMA Network Open · 2020 · 69 citations

  Importance: This study is part of a programmatic effort evaluating the effects of reducing nicotine content of cigarettes to minimally addictive levels. Objective: To examine whether very low-nicotine-content (VLNC) cigarettes decrease smoking rates and dependence severity among smokers with psychiatric disorders or socioeconomic disadvantage. Design, Setting, and Participants: These 3 randomized clinical trials were performed at the University of Vermont, Brown University, and Johns Hopkins Uni…

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• Mifepristone as a pharmacological intervention for stress‐induced alcohol craving: A human laboratory study

  Addiction Biology · 2023-05-31 · 18 citations

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  Preclinical and clinical work suggests that mifepristone may be a viable treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). This was a Phase 1/2, outpatient, cross-over, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with non-treatment-seeking individuals with AUD (N = 32). We assessed safety, alcohol craving and consumption, after 1-week mifepristone 600 mg/day administration, in a human laboratory study comprised of a single oral yohimbine administration (32.4 mg), a cue-reactivity procedure and al…

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• Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes in High-Risk Populations

  JAMA Network Open · 2024-09-06 · 15 citations

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  Importance: Prohibiting the sale of commonly preferred e-cigarette flavors (eg, fruity and sweet) to discourage use among youths poses a risk of diminishing efforts to decrease smoking in adults. Objective: To compare reductions in smoking achieved in adults with psychiatric conditions or lower educational level using very low nicotine content (VLNC) cigarettes alone, combined with e-cigarettes limited to tobacco flavor (TF), or combined with e-cigarettes in participant-preferred flavors. Design…

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• Development and evaluation of visualizations of smoking data for integration into the Sense2Quit app for tobacco cessation

  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2023-08-25 · 9 citations

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  IMPORTANCE: Due to insufficient smoking cessation apps for persons living with HIV, our study focused on designing and testing the Sense2Quit app, a patient-facing mHealth tool which integrated visualizations of patient information, specifically smoking use. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this paper is to detail rigorous human-centered design methods to develop and refine visualizations of smoking data and the contents and user interface of the Sense2Quit app. The Sense2Quit app was created to suppo…

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• App-Delivered Mindfulness Training to Reduce Anxiety in People with HIV Who Smoke: A One-Armed Feasibility Trial

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2023-03-09 · 8 citations

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  Introduction: People with HIV (PWH) who smoke have reported that managing anxiety is a barrier to making a quit attempt and maintaining abstinence post-quit. This study examined the feasibility and acceptability of an app-based mindfulness intervention, Unwinding Anxiety, to reduce anxiety prior to a quit attempt in PWH who were not planning to quit in the next 30 days. Methods: Sixteen PWH (mean age 51.5 [SD = 13.2]; mean cigarettes per day 11.4 [SD = 5.4]) were enrolled and followed for eight…

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Recent grants

• A Peer Navigator Model to Improve Quit Attempts, Quitline Use, and Smoking Cessation Rates among HIV-positive smokers

  NIH · $389k · 2019–2022

• NIH Grant F31NR012656

  NIH · $56k · 2012

• NIH Grant U01DA045514

  NIH · $1.1M · 2024

Frequent coauthors

• Christopher W. Kahler

  Brown University

  89 shared

• Jennifer W. Tidey

  Brown University

  52 shared

• Lorenzo Leggio

  National Institutes of Health

  44 shared

• Michael D. Stein

  Boston University

  31 shared

• Suzanne M. Colby

  Providence College

  29 shared

• Rachel N. Cassidy

  25 shared

• Robert M. Swift

  Providence VA Medical Center

  22 shared

• Peter D. Friedmann

  Baystate Health

  22 shared

Labs

• Cioe LabPI

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester

  2012

Awards & honors

• Researcher Recognition Award, 31st Annual Association of Nur…
• Nurse Scientist/Researcher of the Year, RI State Nurses Asso…
• Young Investigator Scholarship, Conference on Retroviruses a…

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