Michael J Mason
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635577 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael J Mason |
| PRENOMES | Michael J |
| SOBRENOME | Mason |
| ASSINATURA | MASON M J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3165-1450 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Rural and urban variation in mobile health substance use disorder treatment mechanisms and efficacy
Residents of rural areas face significant barriers to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, including poor access, stigma, lack of confidentiality, and distrust of mental health services, which may inhibit treatment engagement. Mobile health (mHealth) approaches offer personalized, private, and easily accessible SUD treatment for rural residents, but differences in treatment mechanisms and efficacy across rural and urban regions are unknown. Th…
We are still in it
Despite scarce research in first responders, moral injury and burnout are growing concerns in alternative response programs. Our goal was to amplify participants' voices to highlight both their struggles as well as proposed interventions fostering resilience. Through close collaboration, we developed a moral injury model that resonates for these first responders and can guide a better understanding of issues and pathways for interventions among h…
Young Adults Advancing Through the Stages of Change
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Stages of Change (SoC) model explains addictive behavior change through 5 stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Limited evidence exists from randomized controlled trials testing the SoC model in Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) treatments. The aim of this study was to test the indirect effects of Peer Network Counseling- text (PNC-txt), a text-message delivered motivational interv…
Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms Moderate Cannabis Use Disorder Treatment Effects
Urban and Rural Differences in the Efficacy of a Mobile Health Depression Treatment for Young Adults
Depression among young adults represents a growing health problem in the U.S., but access to effective treatment remains a challenge. Mobile health (mHealth) approaches promise to deliver accessible and effective depression treatment; however, questions remain regarding how mHealth depression treatment efficacy may vary geographically based on urban and rural environmental contexts. The present study addresses this knowledge gap by leveraging dat…
Overdose from Unintentional Fentanyl Use when Intending to Use a Non-opioid Substance
Fentanyl-mixed and substituted heroin is well-documented, but less is known about unintentional fentanyl use among people using stimulants. To determine the prevalence of and racial and ethnic disparities in unintentional fentanyl use among people experiencing a medically attended opioid overdose, we reviewed 448 suspected non-fatal overdose cases attended by a community paramedic overdose response team in San Francisco from June to September 202…
Environmental Impacts on Behavioral Health Interventions
Relatively little scholarly attention has been given to incorporating geographic principles into investigations of behavioral health intervention efficacy—where, and why, a behavioral health intervention might be more effective in one place versus another. We address this research gap by leveraging data from a randomized controlled trial in a post-hoc analysis to investigate whether socioeconomic deprivation in the residential neighborhood modera…
Beyond Code of the Street and Psychopathic Features
The role of self-compassion in relation to code of the street, psychopathic features, and masculinity was examined among a sample of 207 African American men. Participants were recruited online through the MTurk website. Using correlational and Preacher and Hayes (2008) bootstrapping analyses, results showed that masculinity was positively correlated with code of the street but not self-compassion or psychopathy. The correlational analyses also r…
Predicting Self-Medication with Cannabis in Young Adults with Hazardous Cannabis Use
Using cannabis to reduce psychological and physical distress, referred to as self-medication, is a significant risk factor for cannabis use disorder. To better understand this high-risk behavior, a sample of 290 young adults (ages 18-25; 45.6% female) were recruited from two U.S. universities in January and February of 2020 to complete a survey about their cannabis use and self-medication. Results: seventy-six percent endorsed using cannabis to r…
Reducing Risk for Adolescent Substance Misuse with Text-Delivered Counseling to Adolescents and Parents
Background: Text-delivered prevention programs provide unique opportunities to deliver substance use prevention interventions to at-risk populations. Methods: A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a 4-week, automated personalized text-messaging prevention program, designed to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors associated with adolescent substance use …
Residential Greenspace and Urban Adolescent Substance Use
While urban greenspace is increasingly recognized as important to mental health, its role in substance use is understudied. This exploratory study investigates the interaction of greenspace with peer network health, sex, and executive function (EF) in models of substance use among a sample of disadvantaged, urban youth. Adolescents and their parents were recruited from a hospital in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Residential greenspace at th…
Neighborhood disadvantage moderates the effect of a mobile health intervention on adolescent depression
The role of sex, executive functioning, and perceptions of safety on urban adolescent substance use
Background: Perceptions of safety within one’s activity space (commonly frequented locations) reduces risk for adolescent substance use. Less is known about urban adolescents’ neuropsychological vulnerabilities to substance use and how these may interact with activity space risk. Questions regarding how male and female adolescents respond to these interactions have yet to be sufficiently studied. Method: To examine these interactions, we conducte…
Urban greenspace is associated with reduced psychological stress among adolescents
Geographic Imputation of Missing Activity Space Data from Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) GPS Positions
This research presents a pilot study to develop and compare methods of geographic imputation for estimating the location of missing activity space data collected using geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA). As a demonstration, we use data from a previously published analysis of the effect of neighborhood disadvantage, captured at the U.S. Census Bureau tract level, on momentary psychological stress among a sample of 137 urban adolesce…
Text Message Delivered Peer Network Counseling for Adolescent Smokers
The role of tobacco outlet density in a smoking cessation intervention for urban youth
Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use
Text Messaging to Increase Readiness to Change Alcohol Use in College Students
Dimensions of Religiosity and Access to Religious Social Capital
Valuing but Not Liking School
Research has found strong linkages between adolescent substance use and attitudes toward school. Few studies of this relationship, however, consider the different dimensions of students’ school attitudes, separating perceptions of the importance of school from the quality of students’ affective experiences therein. Using a sample of 301 urban adolescents, evenly divided into substance users and nonusers, this study examines the relationships betw…
People, Places, and Adolescent Substance Use
This research investigates the influence of place and social network characteristics on substance use among a sample of 215 urban, primarily African American, adolescents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We utilize survey data that capture the places that adolescents perceive to be risky and safe, as well as their home location. The survey also captures the egocentric social network characteristics that are associated with each type of place for ea…
Social and geographic contexts of adolescent substance use
An exploratory study of the effects of neighborhood characteristics on adolescent substance use
A substance abuse treatment sample of 53 adolescents in the Washington, DC, area was used to investigate the influence of individual and neighborhood characteristics on substance use utilizing logistic regression. Cross-validation evaluated model performance. Results of separate individual and neighborhood models indicate that subjects’ race and family history of psychological problems influence the likelihood of substance use, as does the racial…
Mental Health, School Problems, and Social Networks
People, Places, and Adolescent Substance Use
This research investigates the influence of place and social network characteristics on substance use among a sample of 215 urban, primarily African American, adolescents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We utilize survey data that capture the places that adolescents perceive to be risky and safe, as well as their home location. The survey also captures the egocentric social network characteristics that are associated with each type of place for ea…
Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use
Attributing activity space as risky and safe
The role of tobacco outlet density in a smoking cessation intervention for urban youth
Valuing but Not Liking School
Research has found strong linkages between adolescent substance use and attitudes toward school. Few studies of this relationship, however, consider the different dimensions of students’ school attitudes, separating perceptions of the importance of school from the quality of students’ affective experiences therein. Using a sample of 301 urban adolescents, evenly divided into substance users and nonusers, this study examines the relationships betw…
Neighborhood disadvantage moderates the effect of a mobile health intervention on adolescent depression
Human Sexuality Instruction in Counselor Education Curricula
The authors sent a questionnaire assessing curricula on sexual counseling to chairpersons of all counselor education programs in the United States. Results show the current status of sexuality instruction for counselors
Patterns of place‐based self‐regulation and associated mental health of urban adolescents
Efforts to simultaneously address adolescent self‐regulation, activity space (routine locations), and mental health represent a promising social ecological approach aimed at understanding the lives and development of urban youth. This type of examination of contextual influences on self‐regulation is considered an important area of developmental research, yet one that is understudied (McCabe, Cunnington, & Brooks‐Gunn, 2004 ). Little is known abo…
Human Sexuality Instruction in Counselor Education Curricula
The authors sent a questionnaire assessing curricula on sexual counseling to chairpersons of all counselor education programs in the United States. Results show the current status of sexuality instruction for counselors
A Review of Procedural and Statistical Methods for Handling Attrition and Missing Data in Clinical Research
Clinical research is often hampered by loss of participants during follow-up procedures. The author of this article presents procedures for reducing attrition and provides a case study to help researchers
Culturally-Based After-School Arts Programming for Low-Income Urban Children
Zones of Narrative Safety
The Social Ecology of Urban Adolescent Substance Use
A Risk and Prevention Counselor Training Program Model
Urban adolescents’ reflections on brief substance use treatment, social networks, and self-narratives
The purpose of this study was to examine urban adolescents' experiences of completing a brief, substance use treatment protocol. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2006 with 23 patients to better understand their treatment experience, the subsequent impact on their social networks and self-narrative reflections. Results suggest common themes of new awareness of self in relation to substance use, utility of social networks in providing o…
Social and geographic contexts of adolescent substance use
An exploratory study of the effects of neighborhood characteristics on adolescent substance use
A substance abuse treatment sample of 53 adolescents in the Washington, DC, area was used to investigate the influence of individual and neighborhood characteristics on substance use utilizing logistic regression. Cross-validation evaluated model performance. Results of separate individual and neighborhood models indicate that subjects’ race and family history of psychological problems influence the likelihood of substance use, as does the racial…
Mental Health, School Problems, and Social Networks
Attributing activity space as risky and safe
Patterns of place‐based self‐regulation and associated mental health of urban adolescents
Efforts to simultaneously address adolescent self‐regulation, activity space (routine locations), and mental health represent a promising social ecological approach aimed at understanding the lives and development of urban youth. This type of examination of contextual influences on self‐regulation is considered an important area of developmental research, yet one that is understudied (McCabe, Cunnington, & Brooks‐Gunn, 2004 ). Little is known abo…
People, Places, and Adolescent Substance Use
This research investigates the influence of place and social network characteristics on substance use among a sample of 215 urban, primarily African American, adolescents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We utilize survey data that capture the places that adolescents perceive to be risky and safe, as well as their home location. The survey also captures the egocentric social network characteristics that are associated with each type of place for ea…
Dimensions of Religiosity and Access to Religious Social Capital
Valuing but Not Liking School
Research has found strong linkages between adolescent substance use and attitudes toward school. Few studies of this relationship, however, consider the different dimensions of students’ school attitudes, separating perceptions of the importance of school from the quality of students’ affective experiences therein. Using a sample of 301 urban adolescents, evenly divided into substance users and nonusers, this study examines the relationships betw…
Text Messaging to Increase Readiness to Change Alcohol Use in College Students
Young adolescents' perceived activity space risk, peer networks, and substance use
Text Message Delivered Peer Network Counseling for Adolescent Smokers
The role of tobacco outlet density in a smoking cessation intervention for urban youth
Urban greenspace is associated with reduced psychological stress among adolescents
Geographic Imputation of Missing Activity Space Data from Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) GPS Positions
This research presents a pilot study to develop and compare methods of geographic imputation for estimating the location of missing activity space data collected using geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA). As a demonstration, we use data from a previously published analysis of the effect of neighborhood disadvantage, captured at the U.S. Census Bureau tract level, on momentary psychological stress among a sample of 137 urban adolesce…
The role of sex, executive functioning, and perceptions of safety on urban adolescent substance use
Background: Perceptions of safety within one’s activity space (commonly frequented locations) reduces risk for adolescent substance use. Less is known about urban adolescents’ neuropsychological vulnerabilities to substance use and how these may interact with activity space risk. Questions regarding how male and female adolescents respond to these interactions have yet to be sufficiently studied. Method: To examine these interactions, we conducte…
Reducing Risk for Adolescent Substance Misuse with Text-Delivered Counseling to Adolescents and Parents
Background: Text-delivered prevention programs provide unique opportunities to deliver substance use prevention interventions to at-risk populations. Methods: A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a 4-week, automated personalized text-messaging prevention program, designed to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors associated with adolescent substance use …
Residential Greenspace and Urban Adolescent Substance Use
While urban greenspace is increasingly recognized as important to mental health, its role in substance use is understudied. This exploratory study investigates the interaction of greenspace with peer network health, sex, and executive function (EF) in models of substance use among a sample of disadvantaged, urban youth. Adolescents and their parents were recruited from a hospital in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Residential greenspace at th…
Neighborhood disadvantage moderates the effect of a mobile health intervention on adolescent depression
Psychology (30 obras) · Clinical Psychology (20 obras) · Medicine (20 obras) · Clinical Psychology (16 obras) · Psychiatry (16 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Substance use (13 obras) · Developmental psychology (11 obras) · Psychological intervention (11 obras)