Interventional Mediation Analysis

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• G-computation will use the gfoRmula package in R. — Which factors mediate the effect of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on mental health in young adulthood? A protocol for a target trial emulation using linked administrative data from New South Wales, Australia
• Interventional mediation analysis estimates effects of hypothetical interventions on mediating pathways even when no such intervention was observed. — Which factors mediate the effect of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on mental health in young adulthood? A protocol for a target trial emulation using linked administrative data from New South Wales, Australia
• The study will estimate total mediated effects and mediator-specific effects. — Which factors mediate the effect of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on mental health in young adulthood? A protocol for a target trial emulation using linked administrative data from New South Wales, Australia
• The study uses a one-policy premise by considering hypothetical interventions one mediator at a time. — Which factors mediate the effect of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on mental health in young adulthood? A protocol for a target trial emulation using linked administrative data from New South Wales, Australia
• Interventional effects are preferred because they align more closely with plausible policy interventions and require fewer untestable assumptions than natural mediation effects. — Which factors mediate the effect of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on mental health in young adulthood? A protocol for a target trial emulation using linked administrative data from New South Wales, Australia