ArticleHealth psychology review2025
How to develop causal directed acyclic graphs for observational health research: a scoping review.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Psychosocial factors associated with physical activity, weight management, and sleep in adults with hip and knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review.BMC rheumatology · 2025Pooled it
- An exploration of the relationship between perceived injustice and pain severity in breast cancer survivors: a structural equation model.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Trial
- Evaluation of metformin for epilepsy prevention or seizure control in people without evidence of diabetes: retrospective cohort study.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2026Article
- Is happiness just a click away? Lessons learned from an unguided online well-being intervention for the general adult public.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- How can the use of different modes of survey data collection introduce bias? An introduction to mode effects using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs).American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Workplace violence and self-reported physical and mental health: a national cross-sectional study in Lebanon.Journal of global health · 2026Article
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- Some Common Dose-Exposure-Response Estimands and Conditions for Their Causal Identifiability.CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology · 2026Article
- Evidence-based directed acyclic graphs for perinatal pharmacoepidemiologic studies in rheumatology: a structured approach for development and implementation in administrative health data.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026Article
- Isolated Non-Albumin Proteinuria Was Associated with the Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease in Hypertensive Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Kidney & blood pressure research · 2026Article
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- Enhancing social science research on cyberbullying through human machine collaboration.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Let's DAG in: how directed acyclic graphs can help behavioural ecology be more transparent.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Composite variable bias: causal analysis of weight outcomes.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- The Associations of Maternal Prepregnancy Body Mass Index With Human Milk Fatty Acid and Phospholipid Composition in the Observational Norwegian Human Milk Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Observational
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Abstract
Causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) serve as intuitive tools to visually represent causal relationships between variables. While they find widespread use in guiding study design, data collection and statistical analysis, their adoption remains relatively rare in the domain of psychology. In this paper we describe the relevance of DAGs for health psychology, review guidelines for developing causal DAGs, and offer recommendations for their development. A scoping review searching for papers and resources describing guidelines for DAG development was conducted. Information extracted from the eligible papers and resources (
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