SARA

SARA (Substance Abuse Research Assistant)

See https://github.com/mashfiqui-rabbi/SARAv2 for SARA version 2

Project Description

SARA is a novel app to engage users with ongoing tracking using timely rewards thereby reinforcing users for data input. SARA is developed for adolescents and emerging adults at risk for substance abuse. The rewards in SARA are designed to be developmentally and culturally appropriate to the target demographic. For more details please check out the following paper or contact mrabbi@fas.harvard.edu

The code is divided into two folder. One folder contains the SARA mobile app code. The other folder contain the code to analyze the causal effect of the SARA app. If you want to cite our work then you can use the following two links:

For the SARA app:

@article{rabbi2018toward,
  title={Toward increasing engagement in substance use data collection: development of the Substance Abuse Research Assistant app and protocol for a microrandomized trial using adolescents and emerging adults},
  author={Rabbi, Mashfiqui and Kotov, Meredith Philyaw and Cunningham, Rebecca and Bonar, Erin E and Nahum-Shani, Inbal and Klasnja, Predrag and Walton, Maureen and Murphy, Susan},
  journal={JMIR research protocols},
  volume={7},
  number={7},
  year={2018},
  publisher={JMIR Publications Inc.}
}

If you are interested in causal inference with binary outcome in a time-varying setting then please cite:

The manuscript is in preparation. For an early draft, please contact
mrabbi@fas.harvard.edu or qiantianchen.thu@gmail.com 

For an informal description of the method see the "analysis_code" folder.

Code Description

The code for SARA is divided into two folder. The individual folders contain readme files that describe how the individual folder codes work.

• App_code: App code folder contains the code for the SARA mobile app.
• Analysis_code: Contains code and description of time-varying causal effects of treatment with a binary outcome.