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  • Machine Learning
  • Public Health

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  • Cannabis use and cannabis use disorder (CUD) are growing global public health concerns.
  • A significant treatment gap exists, particularly for emerging adults (EAs; ages 18-25).
  • Addressing CUD aligns with the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate an online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm, reBandit, for personalized mobile health interventions.
  • To reduce cannabis use among emerging adults through tailored digital health strategies.
  • To assess reBandit's efficacy in real-world, noisy mobile health environments.

Main Methods:

  • Developed reBandit, an online RL algorithm incorporating random effects and informative Bayesian priors.
  • Utilized Empirical Bayes and optimization for autonomous hyper-parameter updates.
  • Created a simulation testbed using prior study data to compare reBandit against baseline algorithms.

Main Results:

  • reBandit demonstrated comparable or superior performance to existing mobile health algorithms.
  • The algorithm's performance advantage increased with greater population heterogeneity.
  • reBandit proved adept at adapting to diverse participant populations in simulations.

Conclusions:

  • reBandit is an effective tool for delivering personalized mobile health interventions for CUD.
  • The algorithm's adaptive nature makes it suitable for heterogeneous populations.
  • This approach offers a promising strategy to address the treatment gap in emerging adults with CUD.