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Estimating co-occurring behavioral trajectories within a neighborhood context: a case study of multivariate transition models for clustered data
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Estimating co-occurring behavioral trajectories within a neighborhood context: a case study of multivariate transition models for clustered data

Magdalena Cerdá, Brisa N Sánchez, Sandro Galea, Melissa Tracy and Stephen L Buka
American journal of epidemiology, v 168(10), pp 1190-1203
15 Nov 2008
PMID: 18849302
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https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwn241View
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Abstract

Mental Disorders - epidemiology Comorbidity Humans Logistic Models Male Social Class Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology Risk-Taking Adolescent Adult Female Adolescent Behavior Chicago - epidemiology Cluster Analysis
Comorbidity is well-documented in psychiatric and risk behavior epidemiology. The authors present a novel application of clustered multivariate transition models to study comorbidity within a clustered context. The authors used data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (1995-2002) to assess trajectories in substance use, problems with police, and antisocial behavior among 1,517 participants in 80 neighborhoods followed from ages 12-15 years through ages 18-21 years. The authors used pairwise odds ratios to quantify behavior comorbidity at the individual and neighborhood levels. Risk behaviors co-occurred within individuals at specific points in time: antisocial behavior and substance use were 3.37 times more likely to co-occur within an individual at wave 1, as compared with the co-occurrence of any 2 behaviors from different individuals, while substance use and police problems were 2.94 times more likely to co-occur than substance use and antisocial behavior at wave 2. The authors also evaluated sequential comorbidity. Antisocial behavior was sequentially comorbid with substance use and police problems: 31% of youths who had reported antisocial behavior at baseline reported police problems or drug use at wave 2. These models can prove instrumental in answering the persistent questions about possible sequential relations among problem behaviors.

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