Association of environmental indicators with teen alcohol use and problem behavior: Teens' observations vs. objectively-measured indicators

Byrnes, Hilary F.; Miller, Brenda A.; Morrison, Christopher N.; Wiebe, Douglas J.; Woychik, Marcie; Wiehe, Sarah E.

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.12.004

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“…For example, EMA via smartphone surveys plus geospatial technology (e.g., GPS and geographic information systems) have spawned a subtechnique called geographic EMA (GEMA; Epstein et al, ; Kirchner & Shiffman, ), which shows high spatial accuracy and little evidence that adolescent characteristics or neighborhood features are associated with inaccuracy in geographic readings (Mennis, Mason, Ambrus, Way, & Henry, ). Using GEMA, Byrnes et al () examined links between spatial context and adolescents' problem behavior among 170 youth ages 14–16 who completed EMAs on weekends for a month on GPS‐enabled smartphones. GPS‐measured density of alcohol outlets was associated with adolescents' alcohol use measured via EMA, but adolescents' EMA reports of whether they could observe an alcohol outlet at the current moment were not.…”

Section: Review Of Ema Studies Of Child and Adolescent Mental And Behmentioning

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Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry

Russell

Gajos

2020

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background Enhancements in mobile phone technology allow the study of children and adolescents' everyday lives like never before. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) uses these advancements to allow in‐depth measurements of links between context, behavior, and physiology in youths' everyday lives. Findings A large and diverse literature now exists on using EMA to study mental and behavioral health among youth. Modern EMA methods are built on a rich tradition of idiographic inquiry focused on the intensive study of individuals. Studies of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health have used EMA to characterize lived experience, document naturalistic within‐person processes and individual differences in these processes, measure familiar constructs in novel ways, and examine temporal order and dynamics in youths' everyday lives. Conclusions Ecological momentary assessment is feasible and reliable for studying the daily lives of youth. EMA can inform the development and augmentation of traditional and momentary intervention. Continued research and technological development in mobile intervention design and implementation, EMA‐sensor integration, and complex real‐time data analysis are needed to realize the potential of just‐in‐time adaptive intervention, which may allow researchers to reach high‐risk youth with intervention content when and where it is needed most.

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Section: Review Of Ema Studies Of Child and Adolescent Mental And Behmentioning

confidence: 99%

Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry

Russell

Gajos

2020

Child Psychology Psychiatry

152

106

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“…Emerging sensor research has begun linking some dynamic measures of experience to developmental outcomes. For example, research with teenagers has found that objective GPS‐based (but not subjective) measures of physical proximity to liquor stores are associated with an increased likelihood of underage drinking (Byrnes et al, ). Such objective measures of the structure of daily experience will likely continue to reveal new insights into developmental trajectories.…”

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Automated sensing of daily activity: A new lens into development

Barbaro

2019

Developmental Psychobiology

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Rapidly maturing technologies for sensing and activity recognition can provide unprecedented access to the complex structure daily activity and interaction, promising new insight into the mechanisms by which experience shapes developmental outcomes. Motion data, autonomic activity, and “snippets” of audio and video recordings can be conveniently logged by wearable sensors (Lazer et al., 2009). Machine learning algorithms can process these signals into meaningful markers, from child and parent behavior to outcomes such as depression or teenage drinking. Theoretically motivated aspects of daily activity can be combined and synchronized to examine reciprocal effects between children’s behaviors and their environments or internal processes. Captured over longitudinal time, such data provide a new opportunity to study the processes by which individual differences emerge and stabilize. This paper introduces the reader to developments in sensing and activity recognition with implications for developmental phenomena across the lifespan, sketching a framework for leveraging mobile sensors for transactional analyses that bridge micro‐ and longitudinal‐ timescales of development. It finishes by detailing resources and best practices to facilitate the next generation of developmentalists to contribute to this emerging area.

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“…Subjective interpretation of stressors plays an important role in determining the individual stress response [49]) and the ways in which individuals appraise and interpret neighborhood conditions. Results from studies using both objective and subjective measures of neighborhood characteristics have been mixed with varying levels of associations with substance use or other behavioral outcomes [46, 50–52]. The discordance among perceived and objective measures suggests that while they may be related, they are distinct concepts, which highlights the importance of using multiple methods to obtain a comprehensive understanding of crime and perceived safety.…”

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Neighborhood crime, disorder and substance use in the Caribbean context: Jamaica National Drug Use Prevalence Survey 2016

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The purpose of the study was to examine the role of objective and subjective measures of neighborhood crime and disorder on substance use among a nationally representative sample of 4525 Jamaicans aged 12–65 years. Log-Poisson models with generalized estimating equations were used to estimate relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). A test of interaction was used to determine presence of effect modification by sex. Approximately 39% of the study population reported past-month alcohol use; 10% past-month tobacco use; and 15% past-month marijuana use. In fully adjusted models, past-month alcohol and tobacco use were associated with perceived neighborhood disorder (p<0.05). The likelihood of alcohol use was 1.12 (95%CI:1.04, 1.20) times greater among participants who perceived higher neighborhood disorder. The likelihood of tobacco use was 1.22 (95%CI: 1.01, 1.46) times greater among participants who perceived higher neighborhood disorder. A significant test for interaction in adjusted models (P<0.2) suggested that the associations between substance use and perceived neighborhood disorder varied by sex. Examination of stratified models indicated that the role of perceived neighborhood disorder on alcohol and tobacco consumption varied among females, but not males. Females who perceived higher levels of neighborhood disorder had an increased likelihood of past-month alcohol and tobacco use (RRa:1.25 95%CI:1,07, 1.45; RRa:1.73 95%CI: 1.10, 2.67). Objective neighborhood crime measures were not associated with alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana use. The study findings provide evidence for the importance of considering subjective and objective neighborhood measures when examining relations with health outcome and demonstrate that perceptions of context and contextual exposures are not uniform across populations within neighborhoods. Interventions focused on building community trust and social cohesion (e.g. neighborhood community watch groups) and greening of blighted or abandoned spaces may help increase the sense of safety and order, reducing stress and maladaptive coping such as substance use.

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Association of environmental indicators with teen alcohol use and problem behavior: Teens' observations vs. objectively-measured indicators

Cited by 42 publications

References 63 publications

Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry

Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry

Automated sensing of daily activity: A new lens into development

Neighborhood crime, disorder and substance use in the Caribbean context: Jamaica National Drug Use Prevalence Survey 2016

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