Trial reportDrug and alcohol dependence2014
Real-time tracking of neighborhood surroundings and mood in urban drug misusers: application of a new method to study behavior in its geographical context.
Trial report in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 124 citations in OpenAlex.
- The integration of geographic methods and ecological momentary assessment in public health research: A systematic review of methods and applications.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Pooled it
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- Compliance With Mobile Ecological Momentary Assessment of Self-Reported Health-Related Behaviors and Psychological Constructs in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Technologies That Assess the Location of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior: A Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Pooled it
- Sleep reductions associated with illicit opioid use and clinic-hour changes during opioid agonist treatment for opioid dependence: Measurement by electronic diary and actigraphy.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Integrating Digital Health Data into Clinical Practice: Perspectives and Practical Recommendations.Practice innovations (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Naturalistic Tobacco Retail Exposure and Smoking Outcomes in Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes Daily.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Understanding Alcohol Consumption and Its Antecedents and Consequences in Daily Life: The Why and the How.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Objective Neighborhood-Level Disorder Versus Subjective Safety as Predictors of HIV Transmission Risk and Momentary Well-Being.AIDS and behavior · 2024Observational
- The Promises and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in the Delivery of Behavior Analytic Services.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Review
- Activity space during treatment with medication for opioid use disorder: Relationships with personality, mood, and drug use.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Observational
- Time-varying effect modeling with intensive longitudinal data: Examining dynamic links among craving, affect, self-efficacy and substance use during addiction recovery.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- Discriminating cocaine use from other sympathomimetics using wearable electrocardiographic (ECG) sensors.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Patient Engagement in a Multimodal Digital Phenotyping Study of Opioid Use Disorder.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Dense Sampling Approaches for Psychiatry Research: Combining Scanners and Smartphones.Biological psychiatry · 2023Review
- Health Outcomes by Neighborhood (HON): Effects of Neighborhood, Social Instability, and Health Factors on 12-Month Trajectories of Substance-Use Disorder Symptoms.Substance use & misuse · 2023Article
- Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition Among Urban YouthAJS; American journal of sociology · 2022Article
- The Development of Maternal Psychological Control in Early Adolescence: Maternal, Youth, and Neighborhood Antecedents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Acceptability and Feasibility of Geographically Explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment Among Men Who Have Sex with Men.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Geographic ecological momentary assessment methods to examine spatio-temporal exposures associated with marijuana use among young adults: A pilot study.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2022Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
backgroundMaladaptive behaviors may be more fully understood and efficiently prevented by ambulatory tools that assess people's ongoing experience in the context of their environment.
methodsTo demonstrate new field-deployable methods for assessing mood and behavior as a function of neighborhood surroundings (geographical momentary assessment; GMA), we collected time-stamped GPS data and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) ratings of mood, stress, and drug craving over 16 weeks at randomly prompted times during the waking hours of opioid-dependent polydrug users receiving methadone maintenance. Locations of EMA entries and participants' travel tracks calculated for the 12 before each EMA entry were mapped. Associations between subjective ratings and objective environmental ratings were evaluated at the whole neighborhood and 12-h track levels.
resultsParticipants (N=27) were compliant with GMA data collection; 3711 randomly prompted EMA entries were matched to specific locations. At the neighborhood level, physical disorder was negatively correlated with negative mood, stress, and heroin and cocaine craving (ps<.0001-.0335); drug activity was negatively correlated with stress, heroin and cocaine craving (ps .0009-.0134). Similar relationships were found for the environments around respondents' tracks in the 12h preceding EMA entries.
conclusionsThe results support the feasibility of GMA. The relationships between neighborhood characteristics and participants' reports were counterintuitive and counter-hypothesized, and challenge some assumptions about how ostensibly stressful environments are associated with lived experience and how such environments ultimately impair health. GMA methodology may have applications for development of individual- or neighborhood-level interventions.
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