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Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review
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Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and ecological momentary intervention (EMI) are alternative approaches to retrospective self-reports and face-to-face treatments, and they make it possible to repeatedly assess patients in naturalistic settings and extend psychological support into real life. The increase in smartphone applications and the availability of low-cost wearable biosensors have further improved the potential of EMA and EMI, which, however, have not yet been applied in clinical practice. Here, we conducted a systematic review, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, to explore the state of the art of technology-based EMA and EMI for major depressive disorder (MDD). A total of 33 articles were included (EMA = 26; EMI = 7). First, we provide a detailed analysis of the included studies from technical (sampling methods, duration, prompts), clinical (fields of application, adherence rates, dropouts, intervention effectiveness), and technological (adopted devices) perspectives. Then, we identify the advantages of using information and communications technologies (ICTs) to extend the potential of these approaches to the understanding, assessment, and intervention in depression. Furthermore, we point out the relevant issues that still need to be addressed within this field, and we discuss how EMA and EMI could benefit from the use of sensors and biosensors, along with recent advances in machine learning for affective modelling.
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This systematic review maps technology-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and ecological momentary intervention (EMI) for major depressive disorder (MDD), covering technical, clinical, and technological dimensions. It finds growing feasibility and preliminary efficacy, but limited clinical implementation, compliance challenges, and few EMI trials.
Key findings
- The review included 33 articles (EMA = 26; EMI = 7) per the abstract, though the Results section reports 32 EMA studies and 8 EMI studies.
- EMA compliance was generally encouraging: 16 studies reported >85% compliance, 5 reported 70–84%, and 4 reported 65%.
- Four EMIs were identified: Psymate, Mobylize, Help4Mood, and Medlink. Psymate was tested in 102 depressed patients in a three-arm RCT; Mobylize in 7 MDD patients; Help4Mood in 28 depressed patients randomized to Help4Mood or TAU; Medlink in 8 MDD patients.
- Psymate reduced depressive symptoms in the experimental group with maintenance at follow-up; Mobylize reduced depressive and anxiety symptoms but had low mood-prediction accuracy; Help4Mood showed reduced symptoms in both groups but greater clinical improvement in TAU; Medlink showed 84% medication adherence and significant depressive symptom decrease over 4 weeks.
Methods
- Systematic review following PRISMA guidelines, searching PubMed and Web of Science in March 2019 with a broad EMA/EMI/mHealth/depression string.
- Search produced 4,993 articles; after duplicate removal and title/abstract screening, 401 were retrieved, 40 papers selected, and 33 articles included.
- Inclusion required adults with primary current or past MDD using DSM/ICD criteria and hand-held technology-based EMA or EMI; paper-and-pencil diaries were excluded. EMA studies had no risk-of-bias assessment; EMI studies used the Downs and Black quality index.
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- The paper states that EMA/EMI are time-consuming, may be perceived as invasive, require repeated assessments over weeks, raise privacy concerns, and reduce experimental control because data are collected in naturalistic settings.
- The paper states there are no standard validated EMA item sets, compliance and dropout remain problematic, few EMIs exist, only two were tested in RCTs, and more high-quality trials are needed.
- Evident from the text: the abstract and Results report inconsistent included-study counts (33 vs. 32 EMA/8 EMI), and the search was limited to English-language publications in two databases as of March 2019.
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“Most of the selected studies administered daily self-reports either through a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a smartphone.”
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“Similarly, when applying individual correction for lifestyle factors, the association of depression to cortisol and the ratio of α-amylase over cortisol was no longer significant, suggesting that generalization from groups does not always reflect the single individual.”
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“One study explored the impact of cortisol on affect, showing a bidirectional association between PA and NA and daily cortisol levels [45].”
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Booij, S.H., Bos, E.H., de Jonge, P., and Oldehinkel, A.J. (2016). The temporal dynamics of cortisol and affective states in depressed and non-depressed individuals. Psychoneuroendocrinology. source
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“Regarding our selected studies, none of them adopted event-based sampling.”
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“Not only were cortisol levels after awakening different in depressed and healthy participants, but the impact of psychosocial variables on cortisol secretion was also dissimilar.”
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“Some studies collected self-reports for a brief time period (less than 3 days); this choice was especially observed in the field of cortisol and sleep pattern research.”
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“The duration of the data collection showed great variability.”
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“The same high variability was observed in the number of prompts, which varied from 1 to 20 prompts per day.”
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“Nevertheless, high variability was observed among participants regarding the timing, direction, and sign of this association.”
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“Only three studies adopted different technological solutions that allowed them to collect both self-reports and data gathered from sensors and biosensors.”
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“Patient dropout was related to diagnosis change, subjective burden, technical problems, incomplete data, retrospective completion of the electronic diary, missed prompts, worsening of symptoms, or non-attendance at follow-up sessions.”
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“Most of the studies collected data using randomized or semi-randomized schemas, whereas nine studies prompted participants to note information at fixed time points during the day.”
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“Through the daily administration of morning self-reports about sleep patterns, O’Leary et al. found that depression was associated with lower perceived sleep quality, which in turn affected negative emotional reactivity to both neutral and unpleasant events during the day [47].”
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- Not checked yetcites [47] Small, 2017, Sleep quality in healthy and mood-disordered persons predicts daily life emotional reactivity, Cogn. Emot. source
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“According to the results, a reduction in depressive symptoms was already observable one day after beginning the treatment, and symptoms on day 7 were predictive of treatment outcome.”
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“Interestingly, the control group was more likely to exaggerate the retrieval of PA rather than NA, but this trend was not observed in depressed patients.”
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“A few studies did not report this information [35,40,41,42,51,57,60].”
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- Not checked yetcites [35] Ottaviani, C., Shahabi, L., Tarvainen, M., Cook, I., Abrams, M., and Shapiro, D. (2015). Cognitive, behavioral, and autonomic correlates of mind wandering and perseverative cognition in major depression. Front. Neurosci. source
- Not checked yetcites [40] Schaffer, A., Kreindler, D., Reis, C., and Levitt, A.J. (2013). Use of Mental Health Telemetry to Enhance Identification and Predictive Value of Early Changes During Augmentation Treatment of Major Depression. J. Clin. Psychopharmacol. source
- Not checked yetcites [41] Hung, 2016, Smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment for Chinese patients with depression: An exploratory study in Taiwan, Asian J. Psychiatr. source
- Not checked yetcites [42] Stetler, 2004, Uncoupling of social zeitgebers and diurnal cortisol secretion in clinical depression, Psychoneuroendocrinology source
- Not checked yetcites [51] Putnam, K.M., and McSweeney, L.B. (2008). Depressive symptoms and baseline prefrontal EEG alpha activity: A study utilizing Ecological Momentary Assessment. Biol. Psychol. source
- Not checked yetcites [57] Slofstra, 2018, Exploring the relation between visual mental imagery and affect in the daily life of previously depressed and never depressed individuals, Cogn. Emot. source
- Not checked yetcites [60] Fisher, A.J., Reeves, J.W., Lawyer, G., Medaglia, J.D., and Rubel, J.A. (2017). Exploring the idiographic dynamics of mood and anxiety via network analysis. J. Abnorm. Psychol. source
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“Booij et al. identified higher cortisol and α-amylase levels among depressed individuals [36].”
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Booij, S.H., Bos, E.H., Bouwmans, M.E.J., Van Faassen, M., Kema, I.P., Oldehinkel, A.J., and De Jonge, P. (2015). Cortisol and α-amylase secretion patterns between and within depressed and non-depressed individuals. PLoS ONE. source
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“In most of the studies, participants could complete self-reports for a fixed time period after the prompt, ranging from a few minutes to a maximum of one hour.”
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“Nevertheless, Conrad and colleagues could not find cortisol differences between depressed and non-depressed participants.”
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“Sixteen studies reported compliance rates higher than 85%, five studies showed rates between 84% and 70%, and four studies collected 65% of the total possible answers.”
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“For instance, NA was positively associated with cortisol 50% of the time, while the association between cortisol and PA was almost always negative.”
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“To increase compliance, two studies also gave participants the possibility of postponing prompts.”
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“A total of 33 articles were included (EMA = 26; EMI = 7).”
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“Finally, interesting outcomes were also observed among remitted MDD patients [44]. Despite remission, patients showed reduced cortisol levels throughout the day and a different interaction between affect and cortisol, thus suggesting a reduction in the HPA axis’ responsiveness as a potential marker of recurrent depression.”
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- Not checked yetcites [44] Huffziger, 2013, Effects of mood and rumination on cortisol levels in daily life: An ambulatory assessment study in remitted depressed patients and healthy controls, Psychoneuroendocrinology source
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“According to their model, a worsening of depressive mood was associated with increased intermittency of locomotor activity.”
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“Both healthy and depressed participants showed higher levels of PA following physical activity, but no decrease in NA.”
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“After eliminating duplicate papers, we made a first selection by reading titles and abstracts, and 401 articles were retrieved.”
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“Nevertheless, sleep quality affected daily mood, but not vice versa, because higher sleep quality was associated with increased PA and decreased NA the following day.”
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“This search produced a total of 4993 articles.”
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“A bidirectional relationship between affect and fatigue, and melatonin was pointed out: Melatonin is associated with changes in affect and fatigue; however, affect and fatigue are also predictors of melatonin levels.”
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“Similarly, sleep duration was found to affect next-day physical activity, but again, no difference between depressed and non-depressed individuals was observed [38].”
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Bouwmans, M.E.J., Oude Oosterik, N.A.M., Bos, E.H., de Groot, I.W., Oldehinkel, A.J., and de Jonge, P. (2018). The Temporal Order of Changes in Physical Activity and Subjective Sleep in Depressed Versus Nondepressed Individuals: Findings From the MOOVD Study. Behav. Sleep Med. source
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“We finally selected publications by applying the selection criteria described in the following paragraph, obtaining 40 papers.”
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“Participants that did not show this association were likely to report higher rates of depression, worse sleep quality, and lower energy expenditure.”
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“participants reported encouraging scores for ease of use (mean = 5.7 ± 1.1) and learnability (mean = 6.1 ± 1.5), but low scores for perceived usefulness (mean = 4.6 ± 1.0) and satisfaction (mean = 4.8 ± 0.8)”
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“patients reported sometimes being bored by excessively long sessions. They would have appreciated receiving more psychoeducational material and a more tailored experience”
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“participants would have appreciated receiving more specific and practical advice related to the EMA-based feedback (3.2 ± 2.0)”
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“the feedback was highly appreciated (usefulness of feedback = 6.2 ± 0.7) and considered valuable (feedback to improve daily skills = 5.4 ± 1.1)”
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“encouraging ratings were observed for the weekly psychoeducation lessons (liking = 6.0 ± 1.1; ease of use = 6.6 ± 0.5; learnability = 6.6 ± 0.5; and usefulness = 5.8 ± 1.7), which were also reported to be the most interesting and useful parts of the application”
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“satisfaction with the application was rated as 5.71 on a scale from 1 to 7”
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“The number of daily prompts and the time needed to complete assessments was not stressful (number of beeps per day = 3.1 ± 1.6; time to answer = 2.5 ± 1.5).”
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“We also reported compliance and dropout rates, which showed encouraging results, with most of the studies reporting more than 70% adherence.”
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“Participants involved in the Help4Mood study were quite satisfied with the application. Most of them would use it in everyday life and suggest it to other patients.”
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“participants found that Psymate was very simple to use and provided clear instructions (verbal instructions = 6.6 ± 0.7; written instructions = 6.5 ± 1.0; Psymate answers = 2.6 ± 1.5)”
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“To date, no standard and validated sets of items have been developed for EMA protocols, raising the problem of context validity.”
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“The idea of a virtual agent to guide participants in completing the assessments was appreciated; however, some participants perceived the agent as too cold, repetitive, and not sufficiently realistic.”
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“feedback interviews showed neutral comments regarding daily self-reports, that were perceived as not very useful; contrasting opinions were collected regarding feedback graphs”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention in MDD
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“In the current literature, only four ecological interventions have been developed, and only two of them were tested in a randomized-controlled trial (RCT).”
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“Our review showed promising results in terms of patient satisfaction and clinical efficacy, further supporting the need for more efforts in this direction.”
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“we were able to identify three EMI features that were highly appreciated: The possibility of receiving visual feedback about daily assessments and, therefore, self-monitoring of daily patterns; the availability of psychoeducational material on depression and its mechanisms; and the opportunity to have continuous or periodic communication with a trained clinician.”
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“compliance rates were sometimes not encouraging, and a major challenge is to encourage regular use of these technologies throughout the entire treatment process [79]”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 4. Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [79] Saranummi, 2013, Moving the science of behavioral change into the 21st century: Part 2, IEEE Pulse source
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“most of the EMAs were based only on self-reports, whereas more attempts to integrate this information with data gathered from sensors and biosensors were observed for EMIs”
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“According to statistics, 70% of people suffering from mental disorders do not receive adequate psychological treatment or reach complete clinical remission [20].”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 1. Introduction > 1.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Henderson, 2013, Mental illness stigma, help seeking, and public health programs, Am. J. Public Health source
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“Likewise, self-reports are affected by recall bias. In other words, depressed patients have been found to alter the content of past experiences when asked to retrieve them retrospectively [8,9], judging symptoms as more severe [10] or increasing the elaboration of negative information [11].”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Ben-Zeev, D., Young, M.A., and Madsen, J.W. (2009). Retrospective recall of affect in clinically depressed individuals and controls. Cogn. Emot. source
- Not checked yetcites [9] Chamberlain, 2006, The neuropsychology of mood disorders, Curr. Psychiatry Rep. source
- Not checked yetcites [10] 1995, Self-rating procedures in the evaluation of antidepressants: Review of the literature and results of our studies, Psychopathology source
- Not checked yetcites [11] Gotlib, 2010, Cognition and Depression: Current Status and Future Directions, Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. source
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“Differently, risk of bias of EMI studies was assessed by two independent reviewers (D.C and J.F.-Á.).”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 2. Methods > 2.3. Quality Assessment and Data Abstraction
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“Although two reviews focused on EMAs for mood disorders [15,16], most of the included studies were based on paper-and-pencil daily diaries, and the target population included adults and adolescents with bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD).”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 1. Introduction > 1.3. Objectives
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Hogenelst, 2012, Mood disorders in everyday life: A systematic review of experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment studies, Clin. Psychol. Rev. source
- Not checked yetcites [16] Trull, 2009, Ecological momentary assessment of mood disorders and mood dysregulation, Psychol. Assess. source
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“Studies were independently selected by three different authors (D.C., M.S., and J.F.-Á.), who first analysed titles and abstracts and subsequently selected the full papers that met the inclusion criteria, resolving disagreements through consensus.”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 2. Methods > 2.3. Quality Assessment and Data Abstraction
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“On the one hand, mobile technologies allow the shortcomings of traditional diaries to be overcome by eliminating the need for manual data entry and by increasing control on backfilling, thus obtaining more accurate data.”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment
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“higher rumination after a stressful event predicted greater NA and more maladaptive behaviours”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Ruscio, 2015, Rumination Predicts Heightened Responding to Stressful Life Events in Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, J. Abnorm. Psychol. source
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“No risk of bias assessment was therefore performed.”
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“Confirming the hypothesis that mind wandering is not a maladaptive behaviour per se”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [35] Ottaviani, C., Shahabi, L., Tarvainen, M., Cook, I., Abrams, M., and Shapiro, D. (2015). Cognitive, behavioral, and autonomic correlates of mind wandering and perseverative cognition in major depression. Front. Neurosci. source
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“an increased alpha signal in the right prefrontal cortex was positively correlated with higher self-esteem ratings”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [51] Putnam, K.M., and McSweeney, L.B. (2008). Depressive symptoms and baseline prefrontal EEG alpha activity: A study utilizing Ecological Momentary Assessment. Biol. Psychol. source
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“Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) criteria [27] were followed.”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 2. Methods
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Moher, 2009, Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta analyses: The Prisma Statement, PLoS Med. source
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“As both randomized and non-randomized controlled trials were included, quality assessment was assessed with the Downs and Black quality index [30].”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 2. Methods > 2.3. Quality Assessment and Data Abstraction
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- Not checked yetcites [30] Downs, 1998, The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions, J. Epidemiol. Community Health source
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“sadness was only a predictor of social rejection”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [58] Hepp, J., Lane, S.P., Carpenter, R.W., Niedtfeld, I., Brown, W.C., and Trull, T.J. (2017). Interpersonal Problems and Negative Affect in Borderline Personality and Depressive Disorders in Daily Life. Clin. Psychol. Sci. source
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“Mobylize! was tested in a small pilot study with a sample of 7 MMD patients”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [61] Burns, M.N., Begale, M., Duffecy, J., Gergle, D., Karr, C.J., Giangrande, E., and Mohr, D.C. (2011). Harnessing context sensing to develop a mobile intervention for depression. J. Med. Internet Res., 13. source
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“Participants in the pseudo-experimental condition reported decreased depressive symptoms in the first weeks of the treatment, but this gain was not maintained across the weeks.”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [62] Kramer, 2014, A therapeutic application of the experience sampling method in the treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial, World Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [63] Simons, C.J.P., Hartmann, J.A., Kramer, I., Menne-Lothmann, C., Höhn, P., van Bemmel, A.L., Myin-Germeys, I., Delespaul, P., van Os, J., and Wichers, M. (2015). Effects of momentary self-monitoring on empowerment in a randomized controlled trial in patients with depression. Eur. Psychiatry. source
- Not checked yetcites [64] Hartmann, J.A., Wichers, M., Menne-Lothmann, C., Kramer, I., Viechtbauer, W., Peeters, F., Schruers, K.R.J., Van Bemmel, A.L., Myin-Germeys, I., and Delespaul, P. (2015). Experience sampling-based personalized feedback and Positive affect: A randomized controlled trial in depressed patients. PLoS ONE, 10. source
- Not checked yetcites [67] Snippe, 2016, Change in daily life behaviors and depression: Within-person and between-person associations, Health Psychol. source
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“women and remitted patients evaluated daily events as more negative than men”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [54] Husky, 2009, Past depression and gender interact to influence emotional reactivity to daily life stress, Cognit. Ther. Res. source
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“depressed patients were found to be less emotionally influenced by events, and to perceive themselves as less emotionally reactive”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [56] Kohling, 2015, Affective Instability and Reactivity in Depressed Patients With and Without Borderline Pathology, J. Personal. Disord.
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“Results showed a significant reduction in depressive symptoms in the experimental group that was maintained in the follow-up assessment.”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [62] Kramer, 2014, A therapeutic application of the experience sampling method in the treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial, World Psychiatry source
- Not checked yetcites [63] Simons, C.J.P., Hartmann, J.A., Kramer, I., Menne-Lothmann, C., Höhn, P., van Bemmel, A.L., Myin-Germeys, I., Delespaul, P., van Os, J., and Wichers, M. (2015). Effects of momentary self-monitoring on empowerment in a randomized controlled trial in patients with depression. Eur. Psychiatry. source
- Not checked yetcites [64] Hartmann, J.A., Wichers, M., Menne-Lothmann, C., Kramer, I., Viechtbauer, W., Peeters, F., Schruers, K.R.J., Van Bemmel, A.L., Myin-Germeys, I., and Delespaul, P. (2015). Experience sampling-based personalized feedback and Positive affect: A randomized controlled trial in depressed patients. PLoS ONE, 10. source
- Not checked yetcites [67] Snippe, 2016, Change in daily life behaviors and depression: Within-person and between-person associations, Health Psychol. source
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“depressed patients showed a greater decrease in NA and increase in PA after a positive event”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [50] Thompson, 2012, The everyday emotional experience of adults with major depressive disorder: Examining emotional instability, inertia, and reactivity, J. Abnorm. Psychol. source
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“they showed worse mood and higher emotional reactivity in response to daily stressors”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.1. Ecological Momentary Assessment in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [54] Husky, 2009, Past depression and gender interact to influence emotional reactivity to daily life stress, Cognit. Ther. Res. source
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“Widdershoven and colleagues observed a significant improvement in negative emotions’ differentiation and a close-to-significance improvement in positive emotions’ differentiation after 6-weeks of self-monitoring, regardless of EMA-derived feedbacks”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention in MDD
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [68] Widdershoven, R.L.A., Wichers, M., Kuppens, P., Hartmann, J.A., Menne-Lothmann, C., Simons, C.J.P., and Bastiaansen, J.A. (2019). Effect of self-monitoring through experience sampling on emotion differentiation in depression. J. Affect. Disord. source
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“the use of mobile devices reduces the effort required of users in completing daily assessments and prevents errors by researchers and clinicians due to manual data entry”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 4. Discussion
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“Eleven out of 13 (84.6%) participants completed the protocol and were assessed for the follow-up. One participant withdrew due to worsening mood.”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention in MDD
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“Patients reported taking 84% of their medication, which is significantly higher than medication adherence rates reported in the literature.”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 3. Results > 3.2. Ecological Momentary Intervention in MDD
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- Not checked yetcites [65] Mohr, 2015, MedLink: A Mobile Intervention to Address Failure Points in the Treatment of Depression in General Medicine, Int. Conf. Pervasive Comput. Technol. Healthc.
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“the continuous monitoring of patients’ symptoms would allow clinicians to monitor the efficacy of a treatment over time [76], predict short-term mood changes [77], detect symptoms’ worsening in an early stage [78], and create continuous communication between clinicians and patients”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 4. Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [76] Boswell, J.F., Kraus, D.R., Miller, S.D., and Lambert, M.J. (2015). Implementing routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice: Benefits, challenges, and solutions. Psychother. Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [77] Mikus, 2018, Predicting short term mood developments among depressed patients using adherence and ecological momentary assessment data, Internet Interv. source
- Not checked yetcites [78] Nuij, C., van Ballegooijen, W., Ruwaard, J., de Beurs, D., Mokkenstorm, J., van Duijn, E., de Winter, R.F.P., O’Connor, R.C., Smit, J.H., and Riper, H. (2018). Smartphone-based safety planning and self-monitoring for suicidal patients: Rationale and study protocol of the CASPAR (Continuous Assessment for Suicide Prevention And Research) study. Internet Interv. source
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“smartphones offer the possibility of providing real-time EMA-derived feedback that can be an important therapeutic tool for patients’ self-monitoring, in addition to the possibility of sending real-time alerts to clinicians in case of need”
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“smartphones have the potential of becoming global low-cost tools that can also be adopted in the clinical field”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 4. Discussion
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“Currently, 2.32 billion people in the world use smartphones, and it has been estimated that, by 2020, 70% of the world’s population will own one [71].”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 4. Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [71] (2015). Ericsson Consumer Lab Eurupe Ericsson Mobility Report Appendix. Ericsson Mobil. Rep., 1–8.
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“In a previous study, we observed that compliance was higher in EMA administered through a smartphone and when patients were prompted less than 8 times a day [73].”
§ Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review > 4. Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [73] Colombo, D., Cipresso, P., Fernández Alvarez, J., Garcia Palacios, A., Riva, G., and Botella, C. (2018). An Overview of Factors Associated with Adherence and Dropout to Ecological Momentary Assessments in Depression. Annu. Rev. CyberTherapy Telemed., in press.
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“as well as anxiety symptoms, measured with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7)”
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- Not checked yetcites [61] Burns, M.N., Begale, M., Duffecy, J., Gergle, D., Karr, C.J., Giangrande, E., and Mohr, D.C. (2011). Harnessing context sensing to develop a mobile intervention for depression. J. Med. Internet Res., 13. source
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“these dynamics greatly vary from person to person, reasons for which ideographic approaches may shed light upon the structure of individual symptom dynamics [60]”
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- Not checked yetcites [60] Fisher, A.J., Reeves, J.W., Lawyer, G., Medaglia, J.D., and Rubel, J.A. (2017). Exploring the idiographic dynamics of mood and anxiety via network analysis. J. Abnorm. Psychol. source
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“No dropouts were reported.”
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“people with serious mental and physical illnesses own and regularly use smartphones [72]”
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- Not checked yetcites [72] Davis, 2013, Mobile technologies among people with serious mental illness: Opportunities for future services, Adm. Policy Ment. Health source
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“Two participants used the application for one or two days, whereas three participants used it between 3 and 7 days. The remaining six participants used it more than 10 times, approximately twice a week.”
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“the mean number of log-ins to the mobile application was 7.9 (approximately one per week)”
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“Seven out of eight participants (87.5%) completed the intervention: The only dropout was caused by technical problems with the smartphone.”
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“participants entered the Medlink application approximately 17.4 times during the 4 weeks of data collection and answered 96% of the prompts”
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“the number of completed lessons on the website was 4.8 out of 9 (53.3%)”
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“The mean use was 134 min.”
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“27 of the 33 participants (81.9%) allocated to the experimental group completed the intervention, whereas 32 out of 36 participants (88.89%) allocated to the pseudo-experimental group completed it.”
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“Seven out of nine users read the psychoeducation lessons from the first and second week, whereas only half of them read the third and fourth lessons.”
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“participants completed 39.7 out of 50 pre-assessments (79.4%) and 23.7 out of 30 (79%) post-assessment observations”
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“the scientific literature has mostly been based on studies conducted in laboratory settings, thus understudying the daily dynamics of psychopathology [70]”
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- Not checked yetcites [70] Nilsen, 2013, Moving behavioral theories into the 21st century: Technological advancements for improving quality of life, IEEE Pulse source
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“Due to the intrinsic nature of the disease, depressed patients could be less likely to consistently complete daily assessments.”
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“the hierarchical sensing model proposed by Mohr highlights the great revolution that new sensors and biosensors can bring to the field of mental health [85], making it possible to collect raw sensor data (i.e., the lower level of the hierarchy) that can be converted into “behavioural markers” through machine learning and data mining methods [18]”
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- Not checked yetcites [85] Miettunen, 2019, Mobile Phone and Wearable Sensor-Based mHealth Approaches for Psychiatric Disorders and Symptoms: Systematic Review, JMIR Ment. Health source
- Not checked yetcites [18] Mohr, 2017, Personal Sensing: Understanding Mental Health Using Ubiquitous Sensors and Machine Learning, Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. source
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“Moreover, people might not be willing to share personal information.”
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“Finally, in terms of more ecological validity, they may be advantageous for clinical purposes, but disadvantageous for research aims, because they imply less experimental control.”
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“These could provide an EMA and/or EMI platform with additional markers that more closely correlate to a person’s affective state, and that can be used as input to the analysis performed [61].”
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What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [61] Burns, M.N., Begale, M., Duffecy, J., Gergle, D., Karr, C.J., Giangrande, E., and Mohr, D.C. (2011). Harnessing context sensing to develop a mobile intervention for depression. J. Med. Internet Res., 13. source
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“Nevertheless, due to the implementation of novel statistical procedures, a balance between research necessities and clinical utility could be achieved [90].”
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- Not checked yetcites [90] Lin, X., Mermelstein, R.J., and Hedeker, D. (2018). A 3-level Bayesian mixed effects location scale model with an application to ecological momentary assessment data. Stat. Med. source
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“Recent advances in sensor technologies have had an impact on applications for remote health [81], such as postoperative recovery [82], treatment for chronic patients [83], and monitoring of elderly individuals [84].”
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- Not checked yetcites [81] Majumder, S., Mondal, T., and Deen, M. (2017). Wearable Sensors for Remote Health Monitoring. Sensors, 17. source
- Not checked yetcites [82] Aziz, O., Atallah, L., Lo, B., ElHelw, M., Wang, L., Yang, G.Z., and Darzi, A. (2007). A pervasive body sensor network for measuring postoperative recovery at home. Surg. Innov. source
- Not checked yetcites [83] Patel, 2012, A review of wearable sensors and systems with application in rehabilitation, J. Neuroeng. Rehabil. source
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“Smartphone sensors further increase the potentially collectable information, allowing the reconstruction of people’s habits, sleep patterns, or social life by using embedded sensors, such as accelerometers, calls, short message service (SMS), social network data, or geolocation.”
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“These approaches are time-consuming and may be perceived as invasive by users.”
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“and acoustic signals), and associated sensors do not interfere with users’ daily routines.”
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“physiological signals can be nowadays recorded unobtrusively by means of, for example, smartwatches and chest bands”
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“Patients are required to complete multiple assessments throughout a day, and protocols often last weeks.”
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“They do not involve recording sensitive information (as opposed to, for example, cameras and acoustic signals), and associated sensors do not interfere with users’ daily routines.”
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“Alternatively, predictive models that combine information from physiological and behavioural signals to estimate the patient’s future mood, stress level, and self-reported health (one or a few days in advance) can be automatically inferred [89].”
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- Not checked yetcites [89] Shen, 2015, Finding a Depression App: A Review and Content Analysis of the Depression App Marketplace, JMIR Mhealth Uhealth source
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“several behavioural signals are readily collectable with the use of smartphone sensors, even though they may lack the required specificity for mood recognition and prediction, as found by the Mobylize! study [61]”
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- Not checked yetcites [61] Burns, M.N., Begale, M., Duffecy, J., Gergle, D., Karr, C.J., Giangrande, E., and Mohr, D.C. (2011). Harnessing context sensing to develop a mobile intervention for depression. J. Med. Internet Res., 13. source
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“several opportunities can be found in the integration of EMA and EMI platforms with behavioural and physiological signal processing, further mediated by machine learning algorithms”
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“Unfortunately, the relation between physiological signals and affective states is not trivial and mixed results are discussed in the literature [87].”
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- Not checked yetcites [87] Choi, K.H., Kim, J., Kwon, O.S., Kim, M.J., Ryu, Y.H., and Park, J.E. (2017). Is heart rate variability (HRV) an adequate tool for evaluating human emotions? A focus on the use of the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Psychiatry Res. source
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“Still, promising results have been already shown also regarding the application of EMA and EMI to anxiety disorders [93,94] and stress-related disorders [95,96], highlighting the potential of these tools to provide psychological support in daily life and to investigate symptom fluctuations across time.”
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- Not checked yetcites [93] Walz, 2014, Experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment for studying the daily lives of patients with anxiety disorders: A systematic review, J. Anxiety Disord. source
- Not checked yetcites [94] Schueller, 2017, Ecological momentary interventions for depression and anxiety, Depress. Anxiety source
- Not checked yetcites [95] Yoshiuchi, 2008, Application of ecological momentary assessment in stress-related diseases, Biopsychosoc. Med. source
- Not checked yetcites [96] Gee, B.L., Griffiths, K.M., and Gulliver, A. (2016). Effectiveness of mobile technologies delivering Ecological Momentary Interventions for stress and anxiety: A systematic review. J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc.
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“Building on recent advances of machine learning, recent studies obtained promising results by means of model personalisation for stress recognition [88] and deep learning for mood prediction [89] using a combination of behavioural and physiological markers in non-clinical populations.”
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- Not checked yetcites [88] Kocielnik, R., Sidorova, N., Maggi, F.M., Ouwerkerk, M., and Westerink, J.H.D.M. (2013, January 20–22). Smart technologies for long-term stress monitoring at work. Proceedings of the CBMS 2013—26th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Porto, Portugal. source
- Not checked yetcites [89] Shen, 2015, Finding a Depression App: A Review and Content Analysis of the Depression App Marketplace, JMIR Mhealth Uhealth source
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“Altogether, there is evidence showing the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of these approaches, but much more research should be conducted before drawing definite conclusions.”
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Technology-based EMA and EMI have not yet been applied in clinical practice.
“The increase in smartphone applications and the availability of low-cost wearable biosensors have further improved the potential of EMA and EMI, which, however, have not yet been applied in clinical practice.”
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The findings from the included EMA and EMI studies are valid and comparable enough to support the review's conclusions about EMA and EMI for MDD.
“As pointed out in this review, the widespread adoption of EMA for the investigation of depression has led to novel insights into different aspects of the disease, including emotion reactivity, cortisol patterns, or daily rumination.”
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Electrodermal activity and heart rate variability are valid correlates of users' affective state.
“electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate variability (HRV) have been extensively investigated as correlates of users’ affective state, and they are considered non-invasive”
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“EMA/EMI have shown good results in other psychological disorders, such as substance use disorders (e.g., smoking cessation), anxiety disorders (e.g., social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder), and major depressive disorders (LaFreniere and Newman, 2016; Colombo et al., 2019; Linardon et al., 2019; Miralles et al., 2020).”
From Efficacy of an internet-based psychological intervention for problem gambling and gambling disorder: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2021) · cites this paper as Colombo et al., 2019
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“These reviews indicate that EMA is an acceptable and feasible data collection method in psychiatric samples as well”
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“Moreover, the adherence rates found in this study are even higher than in previous ones with a similar population, although these studies used different EMA methods (e.g., paper-and-pencil diaries, PDAs) [8,14,15].”
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EMA study count changes
MajorThe abstract reports 26 EMA articles, but the results report 32 EMA studies after applying the inclusion criteria.
“A total of 33 articles were included (EMA = 26; EMI = 7).”
“After applying the inclusion criteria, 32 studies were retrieved that investigated and assessed MDD through a technology-based EMA.”
Medlink participant count changes
MinorThe efficacy study is described as involving eight MDD patients, but the compliance section counts nine users.
“Finally, a preliminary study tested the efficacy of Medlink with 8 MDD patients [65].”
“Seven out of nine users read the psychoeducation lessons from the first and second week, whereas only half of them read the third and fourth lessons.”
EMI study count changes
MinorThe abstract reports seven EMI articles, but the results report eight EMI studies.
“A total of 33 articles were included (EMA = 26; EMI = 7).”
“The selection process resulted in eight studies that administered an EMI to clinically depressed patients.”
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“Novel research methods, such as ecological momentary assessment (EMA), a tool that allows for real-time tracking of patterns of movement [254, 255] and selfreported subjective states, could be used to better understand the inter-relation among negative cognition, associated arousal, and avoidance; this tool is current…”
BackgroundEcological momentary interventions for mental health: A scoping review
Balaskas, A., Schueller, S. M., Cox, A. L., & Doherty, G. (2021) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248152 · Cited by 235
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“In a systematic review of EMA use in major depression, Colombo et al. (2019) evaluated 33 studies that met their criteria for inclusion.”
BackgroundAffect Recall Bias: Being Resilient by Distorting Reality
Colombo, D., Suso‐Ribera, C., Fernández‐Álvarez, J., Cipresso, P., García‐Palacios, A., Riva, G., & Botella, C. (2020) · Cognitive Therapy and Research · doi:10.1007/s10608-020-10122-3 · Cited by 176
Self-citationDon't Miss the Moment: A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment in Suicide Research
Kivelä, L., van der Does, W. A. J., Riese, H., & Antypa, N. (2022) · Frontiers in Digital Health · doi:10.3389/fdgth.2022.876595 · Cited by 163
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Self-citationUse of Ecological Momentary Assessment to Study Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior: a Systematic Review
Sedano-Capdevila, A., Porras-Segovia, A., Bello, H. J., Baca-García, E., & Barrigon, M. L. (2021) · Current Psychiatry Reports · doi:10.1007/s11920-021-01255-7 · Cited by 148
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“Existing reviews of EMIs in the treatment of psychotic disorders [24], major depressive disorder [50], alcohol use [51], and eating disorders [14] found that most interventions were in the early stages of development, which aligns with the findings of this review.”
ResultVirtual Reality for the Enhancement of Emotion Regulation
Colombo, D., Díaz‐García, A., Fernandez‐Álvarez, J., & Botella, C. (2021) · Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · doi:10.1002/cpp.2618 · Cited by 120
Self-citationPerski, O., Keller, J., Kale, D., Asare, B. Y.-A., Schneider, V., Powell, D., Naughton, F., ten Hoor, G. T., Verboon, P., & Kwasnicka, D. (2022) · Health Psychology Review · doi:10.1080/17437199.2022.2112258 · Cited by 99
“…and adolescents) – which have, on average, been estimated to fall between 71.6% to 79.0% of the total number of delivered EMAs (Cain et al., 2009; Colombo et al., 2019; de Vries et al., 2021; Degroote et al., 2020; Heron et al., 2017; Jones et al., 2019; Schembre et al., 2018; Wen et al., 2017).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialThe utility of smartphone-based, ecological momentary assessment for depressive symptoms
Yim, S. J., Lui, L. M. W., Lee, Y. L., Rosenblat, J. D., Ragguett, R., Park, C., Subramaniapillai, M., Cao, B., Zhou, A. J., Rong, C., et al. (2020) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.05.116 · Cited by 89
Sensors Capabilities, Performance, and Use of Consumer Sleep Technology
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“Previous research has implemented the DP and related terminology to investigate depressive symptoms, and systematic reviews of the current literature have been conducted [7, 11, 34, 44].”
BackgroundMethodvan Genugten, C. R., Schuurmans, J., Lamers, F., Riese, H., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Schoevers, R. A., Riper, H. M., & Smit, J. H. (2020) · Journal of Clinical Medicine · doi:10.3390/jcm9020322 · Cited by 71
“Nevertheless, systematic reviews showed encouraging results regarding the burden experienced and adherence rates by persons with affective disorders [8,14,15].”
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“The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of depression through passive sensing depends on the data used; however, the accuracy ranges from approximately 60% to 90% [51].”
van Genugten, C., Thong, M. S. Y., van Ballegooijen, W., Kleiboer, A. M., Spruijt‐Metz, D., Smit, A. C., Sprangers, M. A. G., Terhorst, Y., & Riper, H. M. (2025) · Frontiers in Digital Health · doi:10.3389/fdgth.2025.1460167 · Cited by 64
Wearable Technology in Clinical Practice for Depressive Disorder
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Digital phenotyping in depression diagnostics: Integrating psychiatric and engineering perspectives
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“To date, only four EMIs have been evaluated in clinically depressed patients (Colombo et al., 2019) by studies with generally modest evidential strength.”
BackgroundPatient and physician perspectives of a smartphone application for depression: a qualitative study
Patoz, M.-C., Hidalgo‐Mazzei, D., Blanc, O., Verdolini, N., Pacchiarotti, I., Murru, A., Zukerwar, L., Vieta, E., Llorca, P., & Samalin, L. (2021) · BMC Psychiatry · doi:10.1186/s12888-021-03064-x · Cited by 36
“For this particular point, studies showed inconsistent results, where some highlighted a quick drop out rate of self-monitoring apps [56, 57], while others noted, conversely, a fairly high retention rate for these tools [52, 54, 58].”
BackgroundResultBiased Affective Forecasting: A Potential Mechanism That Enhances Resilience and Well-Being
Colombo, D., Fernández‐Álvarez, J., Suso‐Ribera, C., Cipresso, P., García‐Palacios, A., Riva, G., & Botella, C. (2020) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01333 · Cited by 38
Self-citationSlow down and be critical before using early warning signals in psychopathology
Helmich, M. A., Schreuder, M. J., Bringmann, L. F., Riese, H., Snippe, E., & Smit, A. C. (2024) · Nature Reviews Psychology · doi:10.1038/s44159-024-00369-y · Cited by 39
Speech as a promising biosignal in precision psychiatry
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“Moreover, among those receiving treatment, the modal number of sessions attended for psychotherapy and medication treatment is one, with little follow-up thereafter (e.g., Connolly Gibbons et al., 2011).”
BackgroundPsychopathology and positive emotions in daily life
Heininga, V. E., & Kuppens, P. (2020) · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.11.005 · Cited by 36
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Natural language processing for cognitive therapy: Extracting schemas from thought records
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“To date, these typically employ multiple choice response items for self-report measures, which may be combined with sensor readings from handheld devices or wearables (compare [51] for depression).”
BackgroundEcological Momentary Interventions in Public Mental Health Provision
Schulte‐Strathaus, J. C. C., Rauschenberg, C., Baumeister, H., & Reininghaus, U. (2022) · Studies in neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-98546-2_25 · Cited by 31
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“…study was a macrolevel multiyear longitudinal investigation, with four time points over 30 months; future studies may provide a more microlevel picture of symptom fl uctuations over a shorter timescale using mobile applications to collect daily or weekly self-report and behavioral measures (71).”
Craske, M. G., Herzallah, M. M., Nusslock, R., & Patel, V. (2023) · Nature Mental Health · doi:10.1038/s44220-022-00012-w · Cited by 31
“Ecological momentary assessments of subjective experience capture affective dynamics in daily life that are less biased than traditional questionnaires that estimate status over lengthy intervals, but remain limited to self reporting 117 .”
Jones, S. E., Moore, R. C., Pinkham, A. E., Depp, C. A., Granholm, E. L., & Harvey, P. D. (2021) · Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.pmip.2021.100085 · Cited by 30
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“…in this study was that, despite enthu-siasm for the role of passive sensing and complex ML methods in mental health research (Burke et al., 2019; Colombo et al., 2019), simpler algorithms (ENRs) with only mood-derived predictors were either equivalent or outperformed more complex RF models with…”
The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation in the Recall of Negative Autobiographical Memories
Colombo, D., Serino, S., Suso‐Ribera, C., Fernández‐Álvarez, J., Cipresso, P., García‐Palacios, A., Riva, G., & Botella, C. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph18137122 · Cited by 34
“Fifth, adopting an ecological approach involves less control over confounding variables, so our design may have stronger ecological validity at the expense of internal validity [83].”
BackgroundSelf-citationQualitative Diary Methods in Mental Health Research
McCombie, C., Esponda, G., Schmidt, U., & Lawrence, V. (2024) · European Psychologist · doi:10.1027/1016-9040/a000511 · Cited by 28
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“activity monitors, sleep trackers, and global positioning systems) enable new possibilities to monitor physiological signals and behaviors throughout the day.(14) The integration of EMA into wearable sensor technology has potential, if used wisely, to enrich traditional single-session assessments typically used in str…”
BackgroundGirolamo, G., Barattieri di San Pietro, C., Bulgari, V., Dagani, J., Ferrari, C., Hotopf, M., Iannone, G., Macis, A., Matcham, F., Myin‐Germeys, I., et al. (2020) · Depression and Anxiety · doi:10.1002/da.23023 · Cited by 24
“…the knowledge of the clinical characteristics of depression (mainly in terms of emotion reactivity, cortisol patterns, or daily rumination; Colombo et al., 2019), the impact of treatment on daily life, the residual symptoms in remitted patients, and the clinical features of depression in…”
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Tervo‐Clemmens, B., Schmitt, W. A., Wheeler, G. L., Cooke, M. E., Schuster, R. M., Hickey, S., Pachas, G. N., Evins, A. E., & Gilman, J. M. (2022) · Drug and Alcohol Dependence · doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109760 · Cited by 24
Selecting an Ecological Momentary Assessment Platform: Tutorial for Researchers
Henry, L. M., Hansen, E., Chimoff, J., Pokstis, K., Kiderman, M., Naim, R., Kossowsky, J., Byrne, M. E., López-Guzmán, S., Kircanski, K., et al. (2023) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/51125 · Cited by 25
“Accordingly, EMA has been implemented across disciplines, including addiction [13], depression and anxiety [14,15], neurodevelopmental disorders [16], personality disorders [17], disruptive behavior disorders [18], eating disorders [19], schizophrenia [20], suicide [21], and chronic pain [22].”
Moore, R. C., Parrish, E. M., Patten, R. V., Paolillo, E. W., Filip, T. F., Bomyea, J. A., Lomas, D., Twamley, E. W., Eyler, L. T., & Depp, C. A. (2022) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/36665 · Cited by 24
“EMA adherence in BD, depression, and schizophrenia has varied across studies, with most reporting rates of at least 65% and sometimes >90% [24,27-31].”
BackgroundmHealth in affective disorders: hype or hope? A focused narrative review
Hidalgo‐Mazzei, D., Llach, C.-D., & Vieta, E. (2020) · International Clinical Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1097/yic.0000000000000302 · Cited by 22
“…date correlating social and circadian rhythms (Faurholt-Jepsen et al., 2015b; Abdullah et al., 2016; Faurholt-Jepsen et al., 2016; Cho et al., 2019; Colombo et al., 2019), as well as specific illness activity from smartphone generated data seems encouraging, although not yet so conclusive as to…”
BackgroundInfluentialKingsbury, C., Buzzi, M., Chaix, B., Kanning, M. K., Khezri, S., Kiani, B., Kirchner, T., Maurel, A., Thierry, B., & Kestens, Y. (2024) · Archives of Public Health · doi:10.1186/s13690-024-01310-8 · Cited by 20
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“EMA has been extensively used in adult addiction research [23-25], pediatric and adult mental health disorders [26,27], and nutrition and physical activity studies [28,29].”
BackgroundAmin, R., Schreynemackers, S., Oppenheimer, H., Petrovic, M., Hegerl, U., & Reich, H. (2025) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/57418 · Cited by 26
“Consequently, patient-specific models can be automatically generated to continuously estimate the patient’s affective state [71,77].”
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“However, as noted earlier in the present study, the use of smartphone applications for patient monitoring has important advantages over traditional paper-and-pencil diaries and episodic assessment, which helps understand why this method has become the gold standard in health settings [58].”
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“Today, EMA data collection is often facilitated by smartphone-based applications (17, 18), which enable patients to provide self-reports on their mental wellbeing or related factors, while in their ecological habitat (19–21).”
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“The systematic use of such large-scale data collected via commercially available wearable devices is a growing line of data-driven, medical research (26, 27).”
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Telepsychiatry: The future is already present
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Ecological momentary interventions for smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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“33 Therefore, a holistic and integrative approach to creating a system with novel idiographic models based on human cognitive capabilities is required to overcome these issues.”
Digital Clinical Trials for Substance Use Disorders in the Age of Covid-19
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Mood and Activity Measured Using Smartphones in Unipolar Depressive Disorder
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“Smartphones comprise an available platform for remote realtime monitoring of patient-reported symptoms such as mood, activity, and anxiety through Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) (11, 12).”
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Using mobile devices as scientific measurement instruments: Reliable android task scheduling
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“Moreover, app-based mental health tracking has the added advantage of high temporal precision, low effort required by the patient, and the option of providing real-time results and feedback (Colombo et al., 2019).”
BackgroundColomer‐Carbonell, A., Sanabria‐Mazo, J. P., Hernández-Negrín, H., Borràs, X., Suso‐Ribera, C., García‐Palacios, A., Muchart, J., Munuera, J., D’Amico, F., Maes, M. H. J., et al. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055351 · Cited by 18
Self-citationInnovative Technology Based Interventions for Psychological Treatment of Common Mental Disorders
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“[1] provides a systematic review of technology-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and ecological momentary intervention (EMI) for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).”
BackgroundDropping the E: The potential for integrating e-mental health in psychotherapy
Daele, T. V., Best, P., Bernaerts, S., Assche, E. V., & Witte, N. A. J. D. (2021) · Current Opinion in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.02.007 · Cited by 14
“…often through a smartphone application, it can, for example, help to obtain a more clear picture of mood dysregulation, especially when frequently repeated over time and also taking into account context-specific information, like the activity one is engaged in at the time of reporting [17 18].”
BackgroundMobile-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention: bibliometric analysis
Yin, H., Zhu, H., Gu, J., Qin, H., Ding, W., Guo, N., Fu, J., & Yang, Y. X. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1300739 · Cited by 15
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“…can be measured by applying ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods, previously conducted via paper-and-pencil diaries, but nowadays technologies such as smartphones provide a powerful tool (Colombo et al., 2019; Girolamo et al., 2020; MyinGermeys et al., 2018; van Genugten et al., 2020).”
BackgroundA systematic review of ecological momentary assessment in autism research
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“…alternatively known as the experience sampling method (ESM), which has been widely used in studies with both clinical (e.g. depressive disorder by Colombo et al. (2019); anxiety disorder by Walz et al. (2014); eating disorder by Schaefer et al. (2020)) and non-clinical (e.g. mental health and…”
Wayda‐Zalewska, M., Grzegorzewski, P., Kot, E., Skimina, E., Santangelo, P., & Kucharska, K. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph192013659 · Cited by 12
“In addition, patients with AN need to be compared to patients with other mental disorders characterised by maladaptive emotion dynamics and ER, such as borderline personality disorder [69] or major depressive disorder [70], in order to identify disorder-specific and transdiagnostic patterns of these phenomena.”
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Using Multimodal Assessments to Reevaluate Depression Designations for Spine Surgery Candidates
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“Researchers are increasingly employing EMA methods to assess children's and youth's emotional experiences in everyday life (Arbel et al., 2022; Colombo et al., 2019).”
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“The potential of combining wearable data with EMA questionnaires and complementary feedback is an emerging research topic in this field [66-68], but information about the benefits of EMA and expanded feedback next to wearable data is scarce.”
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“Today, EMA is often facilitated by smartphone-based applications [25,27,28].”
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“Although ecological momentary assessment studies have shed light on various aspects of the disease, such as rumination and emotion reactivity [37], however, less is known about the relationship between cognition function and mood in MDD.”
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The Effect of Everyday-Life Social Contact on Pain
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“These multiple measures of daily-life experiences can be put into relation to fluctuations of symptoms (eg, pain) throughout the XSL • FO RenderX day, depending on affective, cognitive, behavioral, and—last but not least—social factors [12,36,37].”
Differential effects of everyday-life social support on chronic pain
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Measuring loneliness in everyday life.
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Three Questions to Consider Before Applying Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMI) in Psychiatry
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“Furthermore, various issues in EMA (eg, interpretation of momentary questions, usage of comparison standards) could be avoided by the collection of objective sensor data [19,21,62,63].”
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Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment in Clinical Psychology
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“…the possibility of receiving visual feedback about daily assessments, and consequently self-monitoring of daily patterns; the availability of psychoeducational material on depression and its mechanisms; and the opportunity to have continuous or periodic communication with a trained clinician [30].”
BackgroundInfluentialEcological Momentary Assessment versus Weekly Questionnaire Assessment of Change in Depression
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“Although EMA and other time-series-based procedures are increasingly used in clinical research, the practice of implementing them into clinical trials is not widespread [19].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Colombo, D., Fernández-Álvarez, J., Patané, A., Semonella, M., Kwiatkowska, M., García-Palacios, A., Cipresso, P., Riva, G., & Botella, C.
- Affiliations
- Universitat Jaume I (ES)
- Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli, 1, 20100 Milan, Italy
- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK
- IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano (IT)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Department of Basic Psychology, Clinic and Psychobiology, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat, s/n, 12071 Castellón, Spain
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Colombo, Desirée
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Medicine
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-04-05
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 465
- ISSN
- 2077-0383 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6518287
- OpenAlex
- W2905222826
- Cited by
- 194
- References
- 99
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 2.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Repositori UJI (Universitat Jaume I) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- PubliCatt (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (722022)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Keywords
- ecological momentary assessment, ecological momentary intervention, major depressive disorder, mobile application, wearable biosensors, information and communication technologies, machine learning, naturalistic assessment, medication adherence, digital mental health
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