Mediation analysis in longitudinal intervention studies with an ordinal treatment-dependent confounder

[2501.04581] Mediation analysis in longitudinal intervention studies with an ordinal treatment-dependent confounder Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Statistics > Applications arXiv:2501.04581 (stat) [Submitted on 8 Jan 2025 ( v1 ), last revised 21 May 2025 (this version, v2)] Title: Mediation analysis in longitudinal intervention studies with an ordinal treatment-dependent confounder Authors: Mikko Valtanen , Tommi Härkänen , Matti Uusitupa , Jaakko Tuomilehto , Jaana Lindström , Kari Auranen View a PDF of the paper titled Mediation analysis in longitudinal intervention studies with an ordinal treatment-dependent confounder, by Mikko Valtanen and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: In interventional health studies, causal mediation analysis can be employed to investigate mechanisms through which the intervention affects the targeted health outcome. Identifying direct and indirect (i.e. mediated) effects from empirical data become complicated, however, when the mediator-outcome association is confounded by a variable itself affected by the treatment. Here, we investigate identification of mediational effects under such post-treatment confounding in a setting with a longitudinal mediator, time-to-event outcome and a trichotomous ordinal treatment-dependent confounder. If the intervention always affects the treatment-dependent confounder only in one direction (monotonicity), we show that the mediational effects are identified up to a stratum-specific sensitivity parameter and derive their empirical non-parametric expressions. The feasibility of the monotonicity assumption can be assessed using empirical data, based on restrictions on the marginal distributions of counterfactuals of the treatment-dependent confounder. We avoid pitfalls related to post-treatment conditioning by treating the mediator as a functional entity and defining the time-to-event outcome as a restricted disease-free time. In an empirical analysis, we use data from the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study to assess the extent to which the effect of a lifestyle intervention on avoiding type 2 diabetes is mediated through weight reduction in a high-risk population, with other health-related changes acting as treatment-dependent confounders. Subjects: Applications (stat.AP) Cite as: arXiv:2501.04581 [stat.AP] (or arXiv:2501.04581v2 [stat.AP] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.04581 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Related DOI : https://doi.org/10.1177/09622802261418211 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Mikko Valtanen [ view email ] [v1] Wed, 8 Jan 2025 15:55:57 UTC (273 KB) [v2] Wed, 21 May 2025 04:16:56 UTC (312 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Mediation analysis in longitudinal intervention studies with an ordinal treatment-dependent confounder, by Mikko Valtanen and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: stat.AP < prev | next > new | recent | 2025-01 Change to browse by: stat References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... 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