Trial reportPloS one2019
Social network structure is predictive of health and wellness.
Trial report in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital Methods in the Promotion of Well-Being in Immigrants: A Systematic Review : Author Note.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Pooled it
- The Influence of Social Networks on Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
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- Development and external validation of a non-invasive early gestational diabetes mellitus prediction model integrating social network variables: a machine learning-based prospective cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
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- Nutritional priorities to support GLP-1 therapy for obesity: A joint Advisory from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medicine Association, and The Obesity Society.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Article
- Nutritional priorities to support GLP-1 therapy for obesity: a joint Advisory from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medicine Association, and The Obesity Society.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- Nutritional Priorities to Support GLP-1 Therapy for Obesity: A Joint Advisory From the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medicine Association, and the Obesity Society.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- Social influences on Moroccan and Pakistani immigrant women's access and use of cervical cancer screening in Catalonia, Spain: a social network analysis.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Using a Social Network Approach to Characterize Oral Health Behavior Social Support Among Mexican-Origin Young Adults.Journal of health communication · 2025Article
- Establishing the Need for Anticipatory Symptom Guidance and Networked Models of Disease in Adaptive Family Management Among Children With Medical Complexity: Qualitative Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Influence of Care Network Characteristics on Physician Visit Experiences for Black, White, and Hispanic Older Adults With Dementia.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- The use of social network analysis in social support and care: a systematic scoping review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2022Article
- Influence of Social Support Network and Perceived Social Support on the Subjective Wellbeing of Mothers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The role and attributes of social networks in the provision of support to women after stillbirth: experiences from Uganda.BMC women's health · 2021Article
- Shift in Social Media App Usage During COVID-19 Lockdown and Clinical Anxiety Symptoms: Machine Learning-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR mental health · 2021Article
- Clinical, societal and personal recovery in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across time: states and annual transitions.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2021Article
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- The power of dynamic social networks to predict individuals' mental health.Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing · 2020Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Social networks influence health-related behavior, such as obesity and smoking. While researchers have studied social networks as a driver for diffusion of influences and behavior, it is less understood how the structure or topology of the network, in itself, impacts an individual's health behavior and wellness state. In this paper, we investigate whether the structure or topology of a social network offers additional insight and predictability on an individual's health and wellness. We develop a method called the Network-Driven health predictor (NetCARE) that leverages features representative of social network structure. Using a large longitudinal data set of students enrolled in the NetHealth study at the University of Notre Dame, we show that the NetCARE method improves the overall prediction performance over the baseline models-that use demographics and physical attributes-by 38%, 65%, 55%, and 54% for the wellness states-stress, happiness, positive attitude, and self-assessed health-considered in this paper.
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