Lauren Dayton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6087321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Dayton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Dayton |
| SIGNATURE | DAYTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1400-3670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Integrated Mapping Interviews
Naloxone Availability, Testing Drugs for Potency, and Solitary Use
BACKGROUND: Fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses remain a pressing public health challenge. However, engagement in drug overdose prevention and response behaviors may vary across demographic and social contexts. OBJECTIVES: = 783). Ordered logistic regression models assessed factors associated with three key behaviors: testing-dosing to assess drug potency, naloxone availability while using with others, and solitary drug use. RESULTS: The three ke…
“I wasn't really welcome in that community”
Social and structural determinants of health are often spatially bound, limiting access to resources that influence health. Where people go and their interactions shape and are shaped by intersectional stigma, with profound potential impacts on health. Yet, further research is needed to understand how place intersects with intersectional stigma to affect people’s daily lives and health. To inform place-based HIV prevention and care interventions …
Patterns of mHealth Engagement and Identification of Facilitators and Barriers to Mobile Health Applications for People Who Use Opioids
Mobile health (mHealth) applications represent low-cost, scalable interventions with broad reach and are valuable for people who use opioids (PWUO), a population that often experiences low retention in traditional research studies. This study examines engagement patterns with the OASIS app, an mHealth app prompting PWUO in Baltimore, Maryland, to report daily on substance use locations and overdose prevention behaviors over 14 days. Between Decem…
The Relationship Between Methadone and Buprenorphine Enrollment and Overdose Prevention and Treatment Behaviors Among a Community Sample of People Who Use Opioids in Baltimore, Maryland
Findings suggest the importance of promoting overdose prevention and care behaviors to people in drug treatment and training them to promote overdose prevention and care behaviors among their drug-using network members and other community members
Having naloxone when you need it
Evaluation of online training to promote peer diffusion of climate change activism in the US
Enacting policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions requires climate change activism (CCA). CCA behaviors include volunteering/donating to organizations addressing climate change and lobbying policymakers. However, effective methods to promote CCA are not well understood. In August 2022, 622 US adults participated in a randomized control trial and one-month follow-up to assess the efficacy of the Climate Change Activism Peer Educator Training Pr…
“They talked to me like I was dirt under their feet
Background: Many pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) spend time in jail, yet access to standard of care medications for OUD (MOUD) in jail is limited. Though qualitative studies of non-incarcerated pregnant and non-pregnant incarcerated individuals with OUD demonstrate complexities that must be considered in delivering effective care, studies with pregnant, incarcerated patients with OUD are lacking. Methods: We conducted semi-str…
They Talk about the Weather, but No One Does Anything about It’
Understanding everyday conversations about climate change may provide insights into framing the issue to promote climate change action. As part of a longitudinal online study in the US launched in June 2021, 805 respondents were asked if they had discussed climate change with a friend or family member in the prior month; if not, why not, and if yes, they were asked to delineate the conversation topic. Concurrent mixed methods were used to analyze…
Pandemic detention
Background: People incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic face higher vulnerability to infection due to structural and social factors in carceral settings. Additionally, due to the higher prevalence of chronic health conditions among carceral populations, they are also at risk for more severe COVID-19 disease. This study was designed to explore the experiences of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in Maryland during the height of the pan…
Behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with Covid-19 skepticism in the United States
Spatial and neighborhood-level correlates of lay naloxone reversal events and service availability
Child Mental Health and Sleep Disturbances During the Early Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Many children have experienced unprecedented levels of stress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, strained resources, and excess morbidity and mortality. The current study examines change in children's mental health and sleep during the early months of the US pandemic and identifies risk and protective factors. In May 2020, a total of 225 parents reported on the mental health and sleep of each child (N = 392 children) liv…
Understanding HIV/Aids prevention and care in the context of competing health and well-being priorities among Black men who have sex with men in Baltimore, MD
This study examines health and well-being priorities among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in Baltimore, MD and their association with condom use. Among 148 sexually active BMSM, 43% were HIV positive. The majority ranked financial stability (68%), physical health (53%), and stable housing (59%) as top priorities. Fewer participants identified top priorities as mental health (37%), HIV prevention (35%), relationships with family (25%), and…
Associations between depressive symptoms and identity-specific social support among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in Baltimore City, Maryland
Results indicate that BMSM-specific social support is protective against depressive symptoms even in the context of other socioeconomic and structural vulnerabilities, suggesting that strengths-based interventions focused on building community and mutual support among BMSM may be valuable tools to prevent depression and promote positive mental health outcomes for members of this population
The Relationship between Social Norms, Avoidance, Future Orientation, and Willingness to Engage in Climate Change Advocacy Communications
This study examined factors associated with willingness to engage in communication behaviors related to climate change advocacy. Data were collected as part of an online, longitudinal US study beginning in March 2020. Outcomes included willingness to post materials online, contact state legislators, and talk with peers about climate change. Covariates included climate change-related social norms, avoidance of climate change information, and perce…
Correlates of Levels of Willingness to Engage in Climate Change Actions in the United States
While the majority of the American public believe climate change is occurring and are worried, few are engaged in climate change action. In this study, we assessed factors associated with the level of willingness to engage in climate change actions using an online, longitudinal US study of adults. Climate change action outcomes included the level of willingness to post materials online, take political actions, talk with peers about climate change…
Political partisanship and stigma against people who use drugs in opinions about allocating Covid-19 prevention resources to vulnerable populations
Trust in a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S
Determinants of worry using the Sars‐CoV‐19 worry (CoV‐Wo) scale among United States residents
We sought to develop a brief Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2-related worry (CoV-Wo) scale to understand COVID-19-related worry among adults in the United States. We also aimed to model key determinants of worry in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. A total of 806 participants completed an online survey in late March 2020. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses assessed scale structure. Factor anal…
Racial Disparities in Overdose Prevention among People Who Inject Drugs
Stigma and drug use settings as correlates of self-reported, non-fatal overdose among people who use drugs in Baltimore, Maryland
Stigma and drug use settings as correlates of self-reported, non-fatal overdose among people who use drugs in Baltimore, Maryland
Racial Disparities in Overdose Prevention among People Who Inject Drugs
Understanding HIV/Aids prevention and care in the context of competing health and well-being priorities among Black men who have sex with men in Baltimore, MD
This study examines health and well-being priorities among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in Baltimore, MD and their association with condom use. Among 148 sexually active BMSM, 43% were HIV positive. The majority ranked financial stability (68%), physical health (53%), and stable housing (59%) as top priorities. Fewer participants identified top priorities as mental health (37%), HIV prevention (35%), relationships with family (25%), and…
Associations between depressive symptoms and identity-specific social support among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in Baltimore City, Maryland
Results indicate that BMSM-specific social support is protective against depressive symptoms even in the context of other socioeconomic and structural vulnerabilities, suggesting that strengths-based interventions focused on building community and mutual support among BMSM may be valuable tools to prevent depression and promote positive mental health outcomes for members of this population
The Relationship between Social Norms, Avoidance, Future Orientation, and Willingness to Engage in Climate Change Advocacy Communications
This study examined factors associated with willingness to engage in communication behaviors related to climate change advocacy. Data were collected as part of an online, longitudinal US study beginning in March 2020. Outcomes included willingness to post materials online, contact state legislators, and talk with peers about climate change. Covariates included climate change-related social norms, avoidance of climate change information, and perce…
Correlates of Levels of Willingness to Engage in Climate Change Actions in the United States
While the majority of the American public believe climate change is occurring and are worried, few are engaged in climate change action. In this study, we assessed factors associated with the level of willingness to engage in climate change actions using an online, longitudinal US study of adults. Climate change action outcomes included the level of willingness to post materials online, take political actions, talk with peers about climate change…
Political partisanship and stigma against people who use drugs in opinions about allocating Covid-19 prevention resources to vulnerable populations
Trust in a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S
Determinants of worry using the Sars‐CoV‐19 worry (CoV‐Wo) scale among United States residents
We sought to develop a brief Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2-related worry (CoV-Wo) scale to understand COVID-19-related worry among adults in the United States. We also aimed to model key determinants of worry in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. A total of 806 participants completed an online survey in late March 2020. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses assessed scale structure. Factor anal…
Behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with Covid-19 skepticism in the United States
Spatial and neighborhood-level correlates of lay naloxone reversal events and service availability
Child Mental Health and Sleep Disturbances During the Early Months of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Many children have experienced unprecedented levels of stress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, strained resources, and excess morbidity and mortality. The current study examines change in children's mental health and sleep during the early months of the US pandemic and identifies risk and protective factors. In May 2020, a total of 225 parents reported on the mental health and sleep of each child (N = 392 children) liv…
Pandemic detention
Background: People incarcerated during the COVID-19 pandemic face higher vulnerability to infection due to structural and social factors in carceral settings. Additionally, due to the higher prevalence of chronic health conditions among carceral populations, they are also at risk for more severe COVID-19 disease. This study was designed to explore the experiences of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in Maryland during the height of the pan…
Evaluation of online training to promote peer diffusion of climate change activism in the US
Enacting policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions requires climate change activism (CCA). CCA behaviors include volunteering/donating to organizations addressing climate change and lobbying policymakers. However, effective methods to promote CCA are not well understood. In August 2022, 622 US adults participated in a randomized control trial and one-month follow-up to assess the efficacy of the Climate Change Activism Peer Educator Training Pr…
“They talked to me like I was dirt under their feet
Background: Many pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) spend time in jail, yet access to standard of care medications for OUD (MOUD) in jail is limited. Though qualitative studies of non-incarcerated pregnant and non-pregnant incarcerated individuals with OUD demonstrate complexities that must be considered in delivering effective care, studies with pregnant, incarcerated patients with OUD are lacking. Methods: We conducted semi-str…
They Talk about the Weather, but No One Does Anything about It’
Understanding everyday conversations about climate change may provide insights into framing the issue to promote climate change action. As part of a longitudinal online study in the US launched in June 2021, 805 respondents were asked if they had discussed climate change with a friend or family member in the prior month; if not, why not, and if yes, they were asked to delineate the conversation topic. Concurrent mixed methods were used to analyze…
Patterns of mHealth Engagement and Identification of Facilitators and Barriers to Mobile Health Applications for People Who Use Opioids
Mobile health (mHealth) applications represent low-cost, scalable interventions with broad reach and are valuable for people who use opioids (PWUO), a population that often experiences low retention in traditional research studies. This study examines engagement patterns with the OASIS app, an mHealth app prompting PWUO in Baltimore, Maryland, to report daily on substance use locations and overdose prevention behaviors over 14 days. Between Decem…
The Relationship Between Methadone and Buprenorphine Enrollment and Overdose Prevention and Treatment Behaviors Among a Community Sample of People Who Use Opioids in Baltimore, Maryland
Findings suggest the importance of promoting overdose prevention and care behaviors to people in drug treatment and training them to promote overdose prevention and care behaviors among their drug-using network members and other community members
Having naloxone when you need it
Integrated Mapping Interviews
Naloxone Availability, Testing Drugs for Potency, and Solitary Use
BACKGROUND: Fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses remain a pressing public health challenge. However, engagement in drug overdose prevention and response behaviors may vary across demographic and social contexts. OBJECTIVES: = 783). Ordered logistic regression models assessed factors associated with three key behaviors: testing-dosing to assess drug potency, naloxone availability while using with others, and solitary drug use. RESULTS: The three ke…
“I wasn't really welcome in that community”
Social and structural determinants of health are often spatially bound, limiting access to resources that influence health. Where people go and their interactions shape and are shaped by intersectional stigma, with profound potential impacts on health. Yet, further research is needed to understand how place intersects with intersectional stigma to affect people’s daily lives and health. To inform place-based HIV prevention and care interventions …
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (6 works)