Trial reportNature communications2018
A scalable online tool for quantitative social network assessment reveals potentially modifiable social environmental risks.
Trial report in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- Social network intervention to improve blood pressure control after stroke: The TEAMS-BP randomized clinical trial.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Trial
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- Personal Social Network Analysis in Cerebellar Ataxia: Exploring Correlations with Quality of Life and Functional Outcomes.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Article
- Harnessing Egocentric Networks to Inform an Enhanced Social Network Strategy in a Southern US "Ending the HIV Epidemic" Region.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Article
- An Enhanced Social Network Strategy to Increase the Uptake of HIV Services: Protocol for Type I Hybrid Implementation Study (Carolinas RESPOND).JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Lower Perceived Social Support During Hospitalization by Close Family Members may have Significant Associations with Psychological Distress 1 Month After Cardiac Arrest.Neurocritical care · 2025Article
- Association between psychosocial factors and co-morbid cigarette smoking and alcohol use in a population experiencing homelessness.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Personal Networks and Neurological Outcomes of People With Multiple Sclerosis: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Case-Control Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
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- Dialysis Patients' Social Networks and Living Donation Offers.Kidney medicine · 2023Article
- Assumed shared belief about conspiracy theories in social networks protects paranoid individuals against distress.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The company we keep. Using hemodialysis social network data to classify patients' kidney transplant attitudes with machine learning algorithms.BMC nephrology · 2022Article
- The impact of socioeconomic status on subsequent neurological outcomes in multiple sclerosis.Multiple sclerosis and related disorders · 2022Article
- Understanding Online and Offline Social Networks in Illness Management of Older Patients With Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Mixed Methods Study Using Quantitative Social Network Assessment and Qualitative Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Social networks of oncology clinicians as a means for increasing survivorship clinic referral.Communications medicine · 2022Article
- Social network structure and composition in former NFL football players.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Social Network Structure Is Related to Functional Improvement From Home-Based Telerehabilitation After Stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Head-to-Head Comparison of Social Network Assessments in Stroke Survivors.The Neurohospitalist · 2021Article
- Association of social network structure and physical function in patients with multiple sclerosis.Neurology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Social networks are conduits of support, information, and health behavior flows. Existing measures of social networks used in clinical research are typically summative scales of social support or artificially truncated networks of ≤ 5 people. Here, we introduce a quantitative social network assessment tool on a secure open-source web platform, readily deployable in large-scale clinical studies. The tool maps an individual's personal network, including specific persons, their relationships to each other, and their health habits. To demonstrate utility, we used the tool to measure the social networks of 1493 persons at risk of multiple sclerosis. We examined each person's social network in relation to self-reported neurological disability. We found that the characteristics of persons surrounding the participant, such as negative health behaviors, were strongly associated with the individual's functional disability. This quantitative assessment reveals the key elements of individuals' social environments that could be targeted in clinical trials.
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