Nahum-Shani, Inbal | Survey Research Center

Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

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Biography

My research focuses on using behavioral theory and novel methodologies to develop adaptive interventions, namely interventions that use ongoing information about the individual to modify the type/intensity/delivery-mode of support.

Health Psychology:

Adaptive Interventions
Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions
Social Support, Stress and Health

Research Methods:

Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) and related data analytic methods for constructing adaptive interventions
Factorial and Fractional Factorial Designs
Multilevel Data Analysis and Experimental Designs for developing behavioral interventions

Projects

d3lab

d3lab

Novel Longitudinal Methods for SMART Studies of Drug Abuse and HIV

Novel Longitudinal Methods for SMART Studies of Drug Abuse and HIV

Novel use of mHealth data to identify states of vulnerability and receptivity to JITAIs

Novel use of mHealth data to identify states of vulnerability and receptivity to JITAIs

Funded Research

Publications

Moreno, Alexander, Wu, Zhenke, Yap, Jamie Roslyn, Lam, Cho, Wetter, David, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Dempsey, Walter, Rehg, James M.. 2021. A Robust Functional EM Algorithm for Incomplete Panel Count Data. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33:19828-19838.
Carpenter, Stephanie, Marianne Menictas, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, David W. Wetter, Susan A. Murphy. 2020. Developments in Mobile Health Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Addiction Science. Current Addiction Reports 7:280-290.
Patrick, Megan E, Jeffrey A. Boatman, Nicole Morrell, Anna C. Wagner, Grace R. Lyden, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Cheryl A. King, Erin E. Bonar, Christine M. Lee, Mary E. Larimer, David M. Vock, Almirall, Daniel. 2020. A sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) protocol for empirically developing an adaptive preventive intervention for college student drinking reduction. Contemporary Clinical Trials 96:106089.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Fernandez, Maria E, Schlechter, Chelsey R, Del Fiol, Guilherme , Gibson, Bryan , Kawamoto, Kensaku , Siaperas, Tracey , Pruhs, Alan , Greene, Tom , Schulthies, Sandra , Nelson, Marci , Bohner, Claudia , Kramer, Heidi , Borbolla, Damian , Austin, Sharon , Weir, Charlene , Walker, Timothy W, Lam, Cho Y, Wetter, David W. 2020. QuitSMART Utah: an implementation study protocol for a cluster-randomized, multi-level Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial to increase Reach and Impact of tobacco cessation treatment in Community Health Centers. Implementation Science 15(1):9.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Ghosh, Palash , Spring, Bonnie , Chakraborty, Bibhas . 2020. Noninferiority and equivalence tests in sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trials (SMARTs). Psychological Methods 25(2):182-205.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Almirall, Daniel, Yap, Jamie Roslyn, McKay, J R, Lynch, K G, Freiheit, E A, Dziak, J J. 2020. SMART longitudinal analysis: A tutorial for using repeated outcome measures from SMART studies to compare adaptive interventions.. Psychological methods 25(1):1-29.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Levy, Rachel , Mathai, Muthoni , Chatterjee, Purba , Ongeri, Linnet , Njuguna, Simon , Onyango, Dickens , Akena, Dickens , Rota, Grace , Otieno, Ammon , Neylan, Thomas C, Lukwata, Hafsa , Kahn, James G, Cohen, Craig R, Bukusi, David , Aarons, Gregory A, Burger, Rachel , Blum, Kelly , McCulloch, Charles E, Meffert, Susan M. 2019. Implementation research for public sector mental health care scale-up (SMART-DAPPER): a sequential multiple, assignment randomized trial (SMART) of non-specialist-delivered psychotherapy and/or medication for major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (DAPPER) integrated with outpatient care clinics at a county hospital in Kenya. BMC Psychiatry 19(1):424.
Nicholas J Seewald, Kelley M Kidwell, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Tianshuang Wu, James R McKay, Almirall, Daniel. 2019. Sample size considerations for comparing dynamic treatment regimens in a sequential multiple-assignment randomized trial with a continuous longitudinal outcome. Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Artman, William J, Wu, Tianshuang , Mckay, James R, Ertefaie, Ashkan . 2019. Power analysis in a SMART design: sample size estimation for determining the best embedded dynamic treatment regime. Biostatistics
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Pfammatter, Angela Fidler, DeZelar, Margaret , Scanlan, Laura , McFadden, H Gene, Siddique, Juned , Hedeker, Donald , Spring, Bonnie . 2019. SMART: Study protocol for a sequential multiple assignment randomized controlled trial to optimize weight loss management. Contemporary Clinical Trials 82:36-45.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Patrick, Megan E, Almirall, Daniel, Murphy, Susan A., Hall, Kelly L, August, Gerald J. 2019. Adaptive Intervention Designs in Substance Use Prevention. Prevention of Substance Use :263-280.
Yap, Jamie Roslyn, Almirall, Daniel, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Dziak, John J, McKay, James R, Lynch, Kevin G. 2019. A Data Analysis Method for Using Longitudinal Binary Outcome Data from a SMART to Compare Adaptive Interventions. Multivariate Behavioral Research
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Bamberger, Peter . 2019. The lingering effects of work context: Ambient work-unit characteristics and the impact of retirement on alcohol consumption. Human Relations 72(4):675-705.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Bamberger, Peter A, Koopmann, Jaclyn , Wang, Mo , Larimer, Mary , Geisner, Irene , Bacharach, Samuel B. 2018. Does College Alcohol Consumption Impact Employment Upon Graduation? Findings From a Prospective Study. Journal of Applied Psychology 103(1):111-121.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Czyz, E K, King, C A. 2018. Ecological assessment of daily suicidal thoughts and attempts among suicidal teens after psychiatric hospitalization: Lessons about feasibility and acceptability. Psychiatry Research 267:566-574.
Almirall, Daniel, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Bidargaddi, Niranjan , Kovalcik, Michael , Pituch, Timothy , Maaieh, Haitham , Strecher, Victor . 2018. To Prompt or Not to Prompt? A Microrandomized Trial of Time-Varying Push Notifications to Increase Proximal Engagement With a Mobile Health App. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 6(11):e10123.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Rabbi, M , Philyaw Kotov, M , Cunningham, R , Bonar, E E, Klasnja, P , Walton, M . 2018. 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. JMIR Research Protocols 7(7):e166.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Dziak, John J. 2018. Multilevel Factorial Designs in Intervention Development. Optimization of Behavioral, Biobehavioral, and Biomedical Interventions: Advanced Topics :47-87.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Walton, Ashley , Crosby, Lori , Klasnja, Predrag . 2018. Optimizing Digital Integrated Care via Micro-Randomized Trials. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 104(1):53-58.
Almirall, Daniel, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Kasari, Connie , McCaffrey, Daniel F. 2018. Developing Optimized Adaptive Interventions in Education. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 11(1):27-34.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Wang, Ming-Te, Geisner, I M, Koopmann, J , Bamberger, P , Larimer, M E, Bacharach, S . 2018. When the party continues: Impulsivity and the effect of employment on young adults' post-college alcohol use. Addictive Behaviors 77:114-120.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Sarker, Hillol , Hovsepian, Karen , Chatterjee, Soujanya , Spring, Bonnie , Ertin, Emre , alâ€™Absi, Mustafa , Nakajima, Motohiro , Kumar, Santosh . 2017. From Markers to Interventions: The Case of Just-in-Time Stress Intervention. Mobile Health: Sensors, Analytic Methods, and Applications :411-433.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Kumar, Santosh , Abowd, Gregory , Abraham, William T, al'Absi, Mustafa , Chau, Duen H, Ertin, Emre , Estrin, Deborah , Ganesan, Deepak , Hnat, Timothy , Hossain, Syed M, Ives, Zachary , Kerr, Jacqueline , Marlin, Benjamin M, Rehg, James M, Shetty, Vivek , Sim, Ida , Spring, Bonnie , Srivastava, Mani , Wetter, Dave . 2017. Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). IEEE Pervasive Computing 16(2):18-22.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Dziak, J J, Collins, L M. 2017. Multilevel Factorial Designs With Experiment-Induced Clustering. Psychological methods 23(3):458-479.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Almirall, Daniel, Ertefaie, Ashkan , Lu, Xi , Lynch, Kevin G, McKay, James R, Oslin, David . 2017. A SMART Data Analysis Method for Constructing Adaptive Treatment Strategies for Substance Use Disorders. Addiction 112(3):901-909.
Almirall, Daniel, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, DiStefano, Charlotte , Chang, Ya-Chih , Shire, Stephanie , Kaiser, Ann , Lu, Xi , Landa, Rebecca , Mathy, Pamela , Kasari, Connie . 2016. Longitudinal Effects of Adaptive Interventions With a Speech-Generating Device in Minimally Verbal Children With ASD. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 45(4):442-456.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Pelham, William E, Fabiano, Gregory A, Waxmonsky, James G, Greiner, Andrew R, Gnagy, Elizabeth M, Coxe, Stefany , Verley, Jessica , Bhatia, Ira , Hart, Katie , Karch, Kathryn , Konijnendijk, Evelien , Tresco, Katy . 2016. Treatment Sequencing for Childhood ADHD: A Multiple-Randomization Study of Adaptive Medication and Behavioral Interventions. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 45(4):396-415. PMCID: PMC4930381.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Smith, Shawna N, Spring, Bonnie J, Collins, Linda M, Witkiewitz, Katie , Tewari, Ambuj . 2016. Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) in Mobile Health: Key Components and Design Principles for Ongoing Health Behavior Support. Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Almirall, Daniel, Lu, Xi , Kasari, Connie , Lynch, Kevin G, Oslin, David W, Pelham, William E, Fabiano, Gregory . 2016. Comparing dynamic treatment regimes using repeated-measures outcomes: modeling considerations in SMART studies. Statistics in medicine 35(10):1595-1615.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Ertefaie, Ashkan , Wu, Tianshuang , Lynch, Kevin G. 2016. Identifying a set that contains the best dynamic treatment regimes. Biostatistics 17(1):135-148.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Hekler, Eric B, Spruijt-Metz, Donna . 2015. Building health behavior models to guide the development of just-in-time adaptive interventions: A pragmatic framework. Health Psychology 34(Suppl):1209-1219.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Kumar, Santosh , Abowd, Gregory D, Abraham, William T, al’Absi, Mustafa , Gayle Beck, J , Chau, Duen Horng, Condie, Tyson , Conroy, David E, Ertin, Emre , Estrin, Deborah , Ganesan, Deepak , Lam, Cho , Marlin, Benjamin , Marsh, Clay B, Patrick, Kevin , Rehg, James M, Sharmin, Moushumi , Shetty, Vivek , Sim, Ida , Spring, Bonnie , Srivastava, Mani , Wetter, David W. 2015. Center of excellence for mobile sensor data-to-knowledge (MD2K). Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22(6):1137-1142.
King, Anthony P, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Jakicic, J M, Sox, H , Blair, S N, Bensink, M , Johnson, W G, Lee, I M, Sallis, J F, Sallis, R E, Craft, L , Whitehead, J R, Ainsworth, B E. 2015. Comparative Effectiveness Research: A Roadmap for Physical Activity and Lifestyle. Medicine and science in sports and exercise 47(8):1747-1754.
Dempsey, Walter, Liao, Peng, Klasnja, Pedja, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan. 2015. Randomised trials for the Fitbit generation. Significance 12(6):20-23.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Vinokur, Amiram, Henderson, Melanie M, Lim, Sandy . 2014. Supervisor support: Does supervisor support buffer or exacerbate the adverse effects of supervisor undermining?. Journal of Applied Psychology 99(3):484-503.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Almirall, Daniel, Collins, LM . 2014. Optimization of behavioral dynamic treatment regimens based on the sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART).. Clinical Trails 11(4):426-434.
Almirall, Daniel, Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Sherwood, Nancy E. 2014. Introduction to SMART designs for the development of adaptive interventions: with application to weight loss research. Translational Behavioral Medicine 4(3):260-274.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Henderson, Minuet, Murphy, Susan A., Xi, L . 2012. Innovative Experimental Design for Developing Effective Technology-Supported Help-Seeking Interventions. Advances in Help-Seeking Research and Applications: The Role of Emerging Technologies
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Almirall, Daniel, Murphy, Susan A., Qian, Min , Pelham, William E, Gnagy, Beth , Fabiano, Gregory A, Waxmonsky, James G, Yu, Jihnhee . 2012. Experimental design and primary data analysis methods for comparing adaptive interventions. Psychological methods 17(4):457-477.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Almirall, Daniel, Murphy, Susan A., Qian, Min , Pelham, William E, Gnagy, Beth , Fabiano, Gregory A, Waxmonsky, James G, Yu, Jihnhee . 2012. Q-learning: A data analysis method for constructing adaptive interventions. Psychological methods 17(4):478-494.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Murphy, Susan A., Lei, H , Lynch, K , Oslin, D . 2012. A "SMART" Design for Building Individualized Treatment Sequences. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 8(1):21-48.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Dziak, J J, Collins, Linda M. 2012. Multilevel factorial experiments for developing behavioral interventions: power, sample size, and resource considerations. Psychological methods 17(2):153-175.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Somech, A . 2011. Leadership, OCB and individual differences: Idiocentrism and allocentrism as moderators of the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership and OCB. Leadership Quarterly 22(2):353-366.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Bamberger, Peter A, Bacharach, Samuel B. 2011. Social Support and Employee Well-Being. Journal of health & social behavior 52(1):123-139.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Bamberger, Peter A. 2011. Work hours, retirement, and supportive relations among older adults. Journal of Organizational Behavior 32(2):345-369.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Bamberger, P A. 2011. Explaining the variable effects of social support on work-based stressor-strain relations: The role of perceived pattern of support exchange. Organizational behavior and human decision processes 114(1):49-63.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Cohen, A , Doveh, E , Ayala Cohen, Etti Doveh. 2010. Further insight and additional inference methods for polynomial regression applied to the analysis of congruence. Multivariate Behavioral Research 45(5):828-852.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Rothrock, Ling , Cohen, Ayala , Yin, Jing , Thiruvengada, Hari . 2009. Analyses of team performance in a dynamic task environment. Applied Ergonomics 40(4):699-706.
Nahum-Shani, Inbal, Bamberger, Peter , Kohn, Ela . 2008. Aversive Workplace Conditions and Employee Grievance Filing: The Moderating Effects of Gender and Ethnicity. Industrial Relations 47(2):229-259.