Jakob W. Hester

ORCID: 0000-0002-7329-1879
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Research Areas
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Text and Document Classification Technologies
  • Mental Health via Writing
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Korean Urban and Social Studies
  • Media Influence and Health

University of Kentucky
2019-2021

Objective: Examine Juul use patterns, sociodemographic and personal factors associated with use, reasons for initiation current among college students. Participants: Convenience sample of 371 undergraduates at a large university in the southeast; recruited April 2018. Methods: Cross-sectional design using an online survey. Logistic regression identified risk use. Results: Over 80% participants recognized Juul; 36% reported ever 21% past 30-day Significant were: male, White/non-Hispanic,...

10.1080/07448481.2019.1577867 article EN Journal of American College Health 2019-03-26

Objective: Assess the prevalence, perceptions, sociodemographic/personal factors that influence Juul use among incoming freshmen.Participants: Incoming undergraduate students (N = 1,706) attending a public university in southeastern U.S.Methods: Cross-sectional survey administered August 2018. Bivariate relationships assessed using chi-square test of association. Multinomial logistic regression to determine associated with status.Results: 41% had ever used Juul, 24% within past month. Among...

10.1080/07448481.2021.1873790 article EN Journal of American College Health 2021-02-12

(1) Describe intention to quit, (2) identify relationships between various factors and (3) explore if Theory of Planned Behavior-informed constructs are associated with (4) discover descriptive norms strengthen association quit among emerging adults currently using Juul. Participants: First-year students Juul at a large public university (N = 182). Methods: A November 2018 online survey assessed sociodemographic characteristics, social influences, patterns use, intention, attitudes, norms,...

10.1080/07448481.2021.1942885 article EN Journal of American College Health 2021-07-22

Abstract Introduction Can we predict whether someone uses Juul based on their social media activities? This is the central premise of effort reported in this paper. Several recent media-related studies use tend to focus characterization Juul-related messages media. In study, assess potential using machine learning methods automatically identify an individual (past 30-day usage) Twitter data. Methods We obtained a collection 588 instances, for training and testing, patterns (along with...

10.1101/19010553 preprint EN medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2019-11-02
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