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Performance of a Genetic Algorithm for Estimating DeGroot Opinion Diffusion Model Parameters for Health Behavior Interventions.
Johnson, Kara Layne; Walsh, Jennifer L; Amirkhanian, Yuri A; Carnegie, Nicole Bohme.
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  • Johnson KL; Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
  • Walsh JL; Medical College of Wisconsin Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA.
  • Amirkhanian YA; Medical College of Wisconsin Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA.
  • Carnegie NB; Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34949003
Leveraging social influence is an increasingly common strategy to change population behavior or acceptance of public health policies and interventions; however, assessing the effectiveness of these social network interventions and projecting their performance at scale requires modeling of the opinion diffusion process. We previously developed a genetic algorithm to fit the DeGroot opinion diffusion model in settings with small social networks and limited follow-up of opinion change. Here, we present an assessment of the algorithm performance under the less-than-ideal conditions likely to arise in practical applications. We perform a simulation study to assess the performance of the algorithm in the presence of ordinal (rather than continuous) opinion measurements, network sampling, and model misspecification. We found that the method handles alternate models well, performance depends on the precision of the ordinal scale, and sampling the full network is not necessary to use this method. We also apply insights from the simulation study to investigate notable features of opinion diffusion models for a social network intervention to increase uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM).
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Infecções por HIV / Fármacos Anti-HIV / Profilaxia Pré-Exposição / Minorias Sexuais e de Gênero Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Infecções por HIV / Fármacos Anti-HIV / Profilaxia Pré-Exposição / Minorias Sexuais e de Gênero Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article