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ReviewNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2014

Conceptualizing analyses of ecological momentary assessment data.

Saul Shiffman

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 60 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05212220 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Low-intensity Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) for Smoking Cessation Intervention and Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation: a Randomized Controlled Trial Nested Within an EMA-based Observational Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe University of Hong KongRan2022 to 2023Enrolled459ConditionsSmoking CessationArmsEMA-based intervention
NCT06931054 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Combination of Acupuncture, Auricular Acupressure and Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe University of Hong KongRan2025 to 2026Enrolled270ConditionsSmokingArmsAcupuncture, Nicotine Replacement therapy, Smoking cessation counseling, Auricular acupressure, Sham acupressure
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Using Elastic Net Penalized Cox Proportional Hazards Regression to Identify Predictors of Imminent Smoking Lapse.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019
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  7. Within-person associations between daily motivation and self-efficacy and drinking among problem drinkers in treatment.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2016
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  8. Daily Life Assessment of Seven Alcohol-Use-Disorder Symptoms.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Saul ShiffmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Funding

Habitual & Neurocogonitive Processes in Adolescent Obesity PreventionU01HL097839 · NHLBI · CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY · PI REYNOLDS, KIM DANIEL · 2009 to 2014
$5.4M
Real Time Data Collection with Adaptive Sampling and Innovative TechnologiesR01HL107370 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BURKE, LORA EMILIE, RATHBUN, STEPHEN L · 2011 to 2015
$3.0M
Understanding Emerging Patterns of Non-Daily Smoking: Field and Lab AssessmentsR01DA020742 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SHIFFMAN, SAUL · 2006 to 2010
$2.8M
Accelerating Smoking Relapse Research Using Longitudinal Models of EMA DataR01DA033303 · NIDA · RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J. · PI MCCARTHY, DANIELLE ERIN, SHIFFMAN, SAUL · 2012 to 2014
$676k
RELAPSE PROCESS IN TRANSDERMAL NICOTINE REPLACEMENTR01DA006084 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SHIFFMAN, SAUL · 1990 to 2001
$45k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01-HL107370NHLBI NIH HHS U01-HL097839NIDA NIH HHS DA020742NIDA NIH HHS R01-DA006084NIDA NIH HHS R01-DA020742NIDA NIH HHS R01-DA033303
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods, which involve collection of real-time data in subjects' real-world environments, are particularly well suited to studying tobacco use. Analyzing EMA datasets can be challenging, as the datasets include a large and varied number of observations per subject and are relatively unstructured. This paper suggests that time is typically a key organizing principle in EMA data and that conceptualizing the data as a timeline of events, behaviors, and experiences can help define analytic approaches. EMA datasets lend themselves to answering a diverse array of research questions, and the research question must drive how data are arranged for analysis, and the kinds of statistical models that are applied. This is illustrated this with brief examples of diverse analyses applied to answer different questions from an EMA study of tobacco use and relapse.

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Research DesignData CollectionData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansModels, StatisticalPsychopharmacologyRecurrenceSmokingSmoking CessationSocial EnvironmentTime FactorsTobacco Use

Identifiers

PMID24323571
PMCPMC3977631

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