Linking spatial and streaming

data in studies of child development

Candice L. Odgers, Ph.D

The E-risk Longitudinal Twin Study (n=2232)

The E-risk Longitudinal Twin Study (n=2232)

Data Sources

•Self Report

•Resident Surveys

•Police Data

•ACORN

•Google Street View

e.g., Street-level violence and childhood obesity

http://www.police.uk/metropolitan/00BEGC/crime/anti-social-behaviour/+DikOAG/

Data Sources

•Self Report

•Resident Surveys

•Police Data

•ACORN

•Google Street View

Greater London Area

ACORN SES MAP

Data Sources

•Self Report

•Resident Surveys

•Police Data

•ACORN

•Google Street View

Mapping Income inequality (video)

Odgers, CL, Donley, S*, Caspi, A., Bates, CJ*. & Moffitt, TE. Living alongside more affluent neighbours predicts greater involvement in antisocial behavior among low-income boys. (in press). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Which child will experience better outcomes?

Christopher Bates Sachiko Donley

only 18% of low-income children live in concentrated poverty; the remaining in mixed-to-high SES

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Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) on Mobile Devices

EMA, new tech

ambulatory assessments

Dunedin Study: embedded burst

design

•Capture ‘film’ versus ‘snapshot’ of life

•Moving from the Lab -> Life in Context

•↓ Reduce recall bias; capture variability and reactivity

•Not a new method, but is creating new possibilities for discovery

• Wireless sensors, GPS, video and voice diaries

EMA: Advantages and Opportunities

Russell & Odgers (in press). Understanding the daily process of risk and resilience. In C. Peitz and C. Mattson (Eds), Oxford University Press.

Focus on extreme vs. routine events,

daily stressors have large effects on adult health,

need for high-quality, high-res data,

Benefits of unobtrusive measurement

• 150 adolescents &

parents

• 30 days, 3x per day

• Ages 12-15 years

• high-risk neighborhoods

• 18 month follow-up

•ETV has immediate and next day effects on behavior, health and sleep.

•Adolescents with the highest levels of exposure exhibit ‘blunted’ reactivity.

•DRD4-7R carriers are the most reactive to daily triggers

•ETV has immediate and next day effects on behavior, health and sleep.

•Adolescents with the highest levels of exposure exhibit ‘blunted’ reactivity.

•DRD4-7R carriers are the most reactive to daily triggers

•ETV has immediate and next day effects on behavior, health and sleep.

•Adolescents with the highest levels of exposure exhibit ‘blunted’ reactivity.

•DRD4-7R carriers are the most reactive to daily triggers

*Russell, MR., *Wang, L. & Odgers, CL. (submitted). Adolescents with the DRD4-7R allele are more reactive to substance exposure: Evidence for a gene-environment interaction in daily life.

EMA via mobile phones

• Challenges with commercially available software -> move to in-house support

• Data security; constant challenge

• High-levels of compliance and response; but becoming increasingly challenging

• Need for improved back-end analytics

• Focus groups; reports of higher comfort disclosing sensitive information

Wireless sensors: Our Strategy

- Minimize study member burden- Gather more reliable (?) data- Real time assessment, lower cost - Autosense vs. Commercial product- Endless supply of new devices

Challenges & Opportunities - Privacy (avoiding the cloud)- Building in-house capacity- Undergraduate internships (Bass)- Kumar, BD2K https://md2k.org/

Leonard Ng’eno

Michael Nipper

Basis & Sleep

George, M., & Odgers, CL. Seven fears and the science of how mobile technologies may influence adolescents’ social development, safety, cognitive performance and sleep. Perspectives in Psychological Science.

George, M., Russell, MA. & Odgers, CL. (in press). How mobile technologies can advance the study of psychopathology among children and adolescents. Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, Wiley-Blackwell.

Basis & Sleep

George, M., & Odgers, CL. Seven fears and the science of how mobile technologies may influence adolescents’ social development, safety, cognitive performance and sleep. Perspectives in Psychological Science.

George, M., Russell, MA. & Odgers, CL. (in press). How mobile technologies can advance the study of psychopathology among children and adolescents. Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, Wiley-Blackwell.

Basis & Sleep

George, M., & Odgers, CL. Seven fears and the science of how mobile technologies may influence adolescents’ social development, safety, cognitive performance and sleep. Perspectives in Psychological Science.

George, M., Russell, MA. & Odgers, CL. (in press). How mobile technologies can advance the study of psychopathology among children and adolescents. Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, Wiley-Blackwell.

Embedded “Burst” DesignDunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study

• 96% retention by age 38• Three generation pilot study underway (Caspi, Hotz & Odgers)

• Embedded measurement burst, ambulatory measures of sleep, activity, alongside EMA assessments

• Early life adversity + momentary reactivity and the prediction of long term morbidity and mortality

adaptlab.org

candice.odgers@duke.edu Chris Bates

Sachiko Donley

Victor Wang

Michael Russell

Madeline George

Michael Nipper

Summer Robins

Joy Piontak

Emma Hedman

Bonnie Delaune

Chloe Warnberg

Leonard Ng’eno