Katherine E. Masyn
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View article: Prevalence of Blunt and Hemp Wrap Use Among Young Adults in the United States, 2022
Prevalence of Blunt and Hemp Wrap Use Among Young Adults in the United States, 2022 Open
Blunt and hemp wrap use is prevalent among young adults, particularly among minoritized populations. Continued research and surveillance of use of these products is needed to fully evaluate the impact their use may have on the broader popu…
View article: Impulsivity profiles across five harmonized longitudinal childhood preventive interventions and associations with adult outcomes
Impulsivity profiles across five harmonized longitudinal childhood preventive interventions and associations with adult outcomes Open
This study aimed to parse between-person heterogeneity in growth of impulsivity across childhood and adolescence among participants enrolled in five childhood preventive intervention trials targeting conduct problems. In addition, we aimed…
View article: Individual Mobility across Clusters: The Impact of Ignoring Cross-Classified Data Structures in Discrete-Time Survival Analysis
Individual Mobility across Clusters: The Impact of Ignoring Cross-Classified Data Structures in Discrete-Time Survival Analysis Open
In the social and behavioral sciences, it is common for event-history data to have a multilevel structure, such that individuals (e.g., students) in a lower-level are clustered into some higher-level context (e.g., schools). However, littl…
View article: HIV co-infection increases the risk of post-tuberculosis mortality among persons who initiated treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis
HIV co-infection increases the risk of post-tuberculosis mortality among persons who initiated treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis Open
Little is known regarding the relationship between common comorbidities in persons with tuberculosis (TB) (including human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], diabetes, and hepatitis C virus [HCV]) with post-TB mortality. We conducted a retrospe…
View article: Dyadic effects of minority stress and problematic alcohol use on sexual intimate partner violence in same sex couples
Dyadic effects of minority stress and problematic alcohol use on sexual intimate partner violence in same sex couples Open
Little is known about the factors that facilitate the perpetration of sexual violence within the context of same‐sex romantic relationships (sexual intimate partner violence perpetration [S‐IPV]). The present study sought to identify the e…
View article: Tobacco Whack-A-Mole: A Consumption Taxonomy of Cigar & Other Combustible Tobacco Products among a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults
Tobacco Whack-A-Mole: A Consumption Taxonomy of Cigar & Other Combustible Tobacco Products among a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults Open
Introduction: Little filtered cigars and cigarillos (LCCs) are consumed infrequently, co-administered with marijuana, and concurrently used with other tobacco products. Reliance on the past 30-day use estimate, a marker of tobacco user sta…
View article: Utilizing Moderated Non-linear Factor Analysis Models for Integrative Data Analysis: A Tutorial
Utilizing Moderated Non-linear Factor Analysis Models for Integrative Data Analysis: A Tutorial Open
Integrative data analysis (IDA) is an analytic tool that allows researchers to combine raw data across multiple, independent studies, providing improved measurement of latent constructs as compared to single study analysis or meta-analyses…
View article: Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: Measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race‐ethnicity, cohort, and study site
Latent classes of aggression and peer victimization: Measurement invariance and differential item functioning across sex, race‐ethnicity, cohort, and study site Open
Peer victimization is common and linked to maladjustment. Prior research has typically identified four peer victimization subgroups: aggressors, victims, aggressive‐victims, and uninvolved. However, findings related to sex and racial‐ethni…
View article: Parenting stress predicts longitudinal change in parental involvement among mothers living with HIV.
Parenting stress predicts longitudinal change in parental involvement among mothers living with HIV. Open
Mothers living with HIV (MLH) face unique challenges that may compound parenting stress and impede effective parenting practices. Among the general population, research has demonstrated bidirectional longitudinal relations between parentin…
View article: Discrimination, psychological functioning, and substance use among U.S. young adults aged 18–28, 2017.
Discrimination, psychological functioning, and substance use among U.S. young adults aged 18–28, 2017. Open
This study aimed to test whether (a) discrimination is associated with past 30-day/current alcohol, cigarette, e-cigarette, alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drug use among Black and White U.S. adults aged 18-28, (b) psychological dist…
View article: Recursive partitioning imputation versus full information maximum likelihood in finite mixture modeling
Recursive partitioning imputation versus full information maximum likelihood in finite mixture modeling Open
It is well established that omitting important variables that are related to the propensity for missingness can lead to biased parameter estimates and invalid inference. Nevertheless, researchers conducting a person-centered analysis ubiqu…
View article: Individual Differences in the Stability and Change of Childhood Depression: A Growth Mixture Model With Structured Residuals
Individual Differences in the Stability and Change of Childhood Depression: A Growth Mixture Model With Structured Residuals Open
Studies of developmental trajectories of depression are important for understanding depression etiology. Existing studies have been limited by short time frames and no studies have explored a key factor: differential patterns of responding…
View article: A Mixed‐Methods Longitudinal Investigation of Mothers’ Disclosure of HIV to Their Children
A Mixed‐Methods Longitudinal Investigation of Mothers’ Disclosure of HIV to Their Children Open
Mothers living with HIV (MLH) must navigate disclosing their serostatus to their children, but the longitudinal impact on families remains unknown. This study examined HIV disclosure, parenting, parenting stress, and child adjustment among…
View article: Individual differences in the course of youth depression: The importance of renitence and reversion
Individual differences in the course of youth depression: The importance of renitence and reversion Open
Studies of developmental trajectories of depression are important for understanding its etiology. Existing studies have been limited by short time frames and no studies have explored a key factor: differential patterns of responding to lif…
View article: Evaluating a Method to Estimate Mediation Effects With Discrete-Time Survival Outcomes
Evaluating a Method to Estimate Mediation Effects With Discrete-Time Survival Outcomes Open
The utility of evaluating mediation effects spans across research domains. The model facilitates investigation of underlying mechanisms of event timing and, as such, has the potential to help strengthen etiological research and inform inte…
View article: Child maltreatment, adaptive functioning, and polygenic risk: A structural equation mixture model
Child maltreatment, adaptive functioning, and polygenic risk: A structural equation mixture model Open
This study used a structural equation mixture model to examine associations between child maltreatment, polygenic risk, and indices of adaptive functioning. Children aged 6 to 13 years ( N = 1,004), half maltreated, half nonmaltreated, wer…
View article: Association of Friday School Report Card Release With Saturday Incidence Rates of Agency-Verified Physical Child Abuse
Association of Friday School Report Card Release With Saturday Incidence Rates of Agency-Verified Physical Child Abuse Open
This association of school report card release and physical abuse appears to illustrate a unique systems-based opportunity for prevention.
View article: Violence exposure in an urban city: A GxE interaction with aggressive and impulsive behaviors
Violence exposure in an urban city: A GxE interaction with aggressive and impulsive behaviors Open
Background Previous research has demonstrated a reciprocal relationship between community violence exposure and disruptive behavior problems among youth. No study to date, however, has explored the potential interaction between violence ex…
The impact of measurement differences on cross-country depression prevalence estimates: A latent transition analysis Open
Background Depression is currently the second largest contributor to non-fatal disease burden globally. For that reason, economic evaluations are increasingly being conducted using data from depression prevalence estimates to analyze retur…
View article: Measurement Invariance and Differential Item Functioning in Latent Class Analysis With Stepwise Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause Modeling
Measurement Invariance and Differential Item Functioning in Latent Class Analysis With Stepwise Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause Modeling Open
The use of latent class analysis, and finite mixture modeling more generally, has become almost commonplace in social and health science domains. Typically, research aims in mixture model applications include investigating predictors and d…
View article: Multilevel analysis of school anti-smoking education and current cigarette use among South African students
Multilevel analysis of school anti-smoking education and current cigarette use among South African students Open
in this study, exposure to school anti-smoking education had no association with current cigarette smoking among the study population. Consistent with previous studies, having peers that smoked was highly associated with a student being a …
View article: 549 Typologies of the gender-based violence, hiv, and alcohol use syndemic among youth in kampala
549 Typologies of the gender-based violence, hiv, and alcohol use syndemic among youth in kampala Open
Background The HIV epidemic in Uganda appears to be exacerbated by co-occuring substance use and gender-based violence (GBV), a syndemic commonly referred to as the SAVA syndemic. The high prevalence of the three complex epidemics warrant …