Assessing Time-Varying Causal Effect Moderation in Mobile Health.

ABSTRACT: In mobile health interventions aimed at behavior change and maintenance, treatments are provided in real time to manage current or impending high risk situations or promote healthy behaviors in near real time. Currently there is great scientific interest in developing data analysis approaches to guide the development of mobile interventions. In particular data from mobile health studies might be used to examine effect moderators-individual characteristics, time-varying context or past treatment response that moderate the effect of current treatment on a subsequent response. This paper introduces a formal definition for moderated effects in terms of potential outcomes, a definition that is particularly suited to mobile interventions, where treatment occasions are numerous, individuals are n

SUBMITTER: Boruvka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6241330 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature