Using Cell Phones to Understand Social Networks of Young Men

使用手机了解年轻人的社交网络

• 批准号: 8469456
• 负责人: Trace S Kershaw
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: YALE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8469456
• 关键词: Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Cellular Phone; Characteristics; Cities; Communication; Computer software; Data; Development; Drug usage; Education and Outreach; Enrollment; Epidemiology; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Frequencies; Friends; Friendships; Health; Health behavior; Heterosexuals; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Location; Manufactured basketball; Marijuana; Measures; Methods; Monitor; Nature; Outcome; Participant; Pattern; Peer Group; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Role; Sampling; Series; Social Network; System; Technology; Telephone; Text; Time; Youth; base; behavior influence; behavior measurement; condoms; court; design; drug testing; emerging adult; high risk; indexing; innovation; member; men; novel; peer; sex risk; social; therapy development; young man; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Biological; Cellular Phone; Characteristics; Cities; Communication; Computer software; Data; Development; Drug usage; Education and Outreach; Enrollment; Epidemiology; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Frequencies; Friends; Friendships; Health; Health behavior; Heterosexuals; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Location; Manufactured basketball; Marijuana; Measures; Methods; Monitor; Nature; Outcome; Participant; Pattern; Peer Group; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Role; Sampling; Series; Social Network; System; Technology; Telephone; Text; Time; Youth; base; behavior influence; behavior measurement; condoms; court; design; drug testing; emerging adult; high risk; indexing; innovation; member; men; novel; peer; sex risk; social; therapy development; young man

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study explores novel methods to assess how individuals interact within social networks. Communication technologies such as cell phones have made it easier to maintain and develop network ties. The nature of how information, norms, and influence flow through networks using these technologies and how it might relate to network characteristics and risk within networks is not well known. This proposal explores novel and innovative methods of assessing interactions within social networks and their impact on risk behavior (e.g., sexual risk, substance use) among emerging adult men. We will assess the feasibility of using data from cell phones to obtain behavioral network data about interactions and communication between members of social networks. Using an existing computer software program that interfaces with users' cell phones, we will collect two types of data: (1) cell phone call and text message activity to ascertain communication frequency and patterns within networks, and (2) global positioning system (GPS) locations from cell phones to ascertain geographical proximity and frequency of face to face interactions between network members. We will enroll 120 emerging adult heterosexual men ages 18-25 from three social networks. Trained outreach workers will recruit three index participants using a venue-based sampling design targeting locations (e.g., bars, parks/basketball courts, barber shops) in the three highest risk areas (e.g., high STD rates, high poverty) within the target city. Close friends of the index will be recruited in the study. Subsequent waves of recruitment will enroll network members of participants from the previous wave to form three sociocentric networks. All participants will complete a thorough social network assessment where they provide a complete roster of their friendship network. In addition, participants will report their overall levels of sexual risk behavor (including condom use, concurrency, number of partners) and substance use (including alcohol, marijuana, and hard drug use) and we will monitor their cell phone activity, text messaging activity, and GPS locations for 6 months. This study will assess the feasibility and utility of usig cell phone data to obtain behavioral information about networks.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究探讨了评估个人如何在社交网络中互动的新方法。诸如手机之类的通信技术使维护和发展网络关系变得更加容易。信息，规范和影响使用这些技术如何通过网络流动以及它与网络内的网络特征和风险相关的方式的性质尚不清楚。该提案探讨了新兴成年男性对社交网络内相互作用及其对风险行为的影响（例如性风险，吸毒的影响）的新颖和创新方法。我们将评估使用手机数据获得有关社交网络成员之间交互和通信的行为网络数据的可行性。使用现有的计算机软件程序，该程序将与用户的手机接口，我们将收集两种类型的数据：（1）手机呼叫和短信活动，以确定网络内的通信频率和模式，以及（2）全局定位系统（GPS）位置，从手机到确定地理位置的邻近性和面部相互作用，以与网络成员之间的面部相互作用。我们将从三个社交网络中注册120名新兴成人异性恋男性18-25岁。受过训练的外展工作者将使用基于场地的采样设计定位地点（例如酒吧，公园/篮球场，理发店）招募三名指数参与者 目标城市内的风险区域（例如，高性病率，高贫困率）。该指数的密友将在研究中招募。随后的招聘浪潮将招募上一波参与者的网络成员，以形成三个社会中心网络。所有参与者将完成一个彻底的社交网络评估，在其中提供友谊网络的完整名册。此外，参与者将报告他们的性风险妇女的总体水平（包括使用避孕套，并发，伴侣数量）和物质使用（包括酒精，大麻和用力毒品使用），我们将监视他们的手机活动，文本消息活动和GPS的位置6个月。这项研究将评估USIG手机数据的可行性和效用，以获取有关网络的行为信息。