ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2015
Microrandomized trials: An experimental design for developing just-in-time adaptive interventions.
Article in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 9 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 353 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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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.
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Pilot Micro-Randomized Trial of a Real-Time Intervention for Promoting Safety Plan and Coping Strategy Use for Suicidal Thoughts
Micro-randomized Trial to Assess Brief, Just-in-time Interventions for Reducing Short-term Suicide Risk
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Who cites it
353 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Toward Participatory Precision Health With Co-Designed Recommendations: Systematic Review of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- AI-Driven Mental Health Support for Caregivers of Individuals With Alzheimer Disease: Systematic Literature Review and Development of a Conceptual Framework.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Beyond the current state of just-in-time adaptive interventions in mental health: a qualitative systematic review.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Cancer Patients and Survivors: a Systematic Review.Current oncology reports · 2022Pooled it
- Technology-mediated just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) to reduce harmful substance use: a systematic review.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Integrated Behavioral Interventions for Adults with Comorbid Obesity and Depression: a Systematic Review.Current diabetes reports · 2022Pooled it
- Practices for monitoring and responding to incoming data on self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in intensive longitudinal studies: A systematic review.Clinical psychology review · 2021Pooled it
- A machine learning-based ecological momentary intervention for mental health promotion in youth: a micro-randomized trial.Translational psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Promoting Psychological Resilience and Well-Being in Youth With a Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary mHealth Intervention: Secondary Analysis of a Microrandomized Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Text Messaging Intervention for Postpartum Alcohol Use: Micro-Randomized Trial Supports Feasibility, Acceptability, and Maternal Message Preference.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of smartphone-based interpretation bias intervention for anxiety and depression.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2026Trial
- Impact of Push Notifications on Physical Activity and Sodium Intake Among Patients with Hypertension: Microrandomized Trial of a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
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- GamblingLess: In-The-Moment: a mixed-methods acceptability and engagement evaluation of a gambling just-in-time adaptive intervention.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Trial
- Reinforcement learning for proposing smoking cessation activities that build competencies: Combining two worldviews in a virtual coach.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Trial
- Pilot microrandomized trial of a brief digital intervention for suicidal thoughts.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Patient Interaction Phenotypes With an Automated SMS Text Message-Based Program and Use of Acute Health Care Resources After Hospital Discharge: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- HabitWalk: A micro-randomized trial to understand and promote habit formation in physical activity.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Trial
- Mechanism of an integrated PBL-KAP-AI spiral health education model for breast cancer patients.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Impact of Providing a Personalized Data Dashboard on Ecological Momentary Assessment Compliance Among College Students Who Use Substances: Pilot Microrandomized Trial.JMIR formative research · 2024Trial
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Abstract
objectiveThis article presents an experimental design, the microrandomized trial, developed to support optimization of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs). JITAIs are mHealth technologies that aim to deliver the right intervention components at the right times and locations to optimally support individuals' health behaviors. Microrandomized trials offer a way to optimize such interventions by enabling modeling of causal effects and time-varying effect moderation for individual intervention components within a JITAI.
methodThe article describes the microrandomized trial design, enumerates research questions that this experimental design can help answer, and provides an overview of the data analyses that can be used to assess the causal effects of studied intervention components and investigate time-varying moderation of those effects.
resultsMicrorandomized trials enable causal modeling of proximal effects of the randomized intervention components and assessment of time-varying moderation of those effects.
conclusionMicrorandomized trials can help researchers understand whether their interventions are having intended effects, when and for whom they are effective, and what factors moderate the interventions' effects, enabling creation of more effective JITAIs.
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