Trial reportJournal of psychiatric research2016
Ecological momentary assessment versus standard assessment instruments for measuring mindfulness, depressed mood, and anxiety among older adults.
Trial report in Journal of psychiatric research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03294148 (Mind-body Treatments for Chronic Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 145 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Mind-body Treatments for Chronic Back Pain
Who cites it
145 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 273 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mobile Apps for Mental Health Issues: Meta-Review of Meta-Analyses.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Pooled it
- Applications for self-administered mobile cognitive assessments in clinical research: A systematic review.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2017Pooled it
- Smartphone-Based Monitoring of Objective and Subjective Data in Affective Disorders: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
- Psychological mechanisms of prenatal mindfulness training on antenatal blood pressure reduction: A pilot study.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2025Trial
- The benefits of mindfulness training for momentary mindfulness and emotion regulation: A randomized controlled trial for adolescents exposed to chronic stressors.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2024Trial
- Momentary effects of life stressors on mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties among adolescents exposed to chronic stressors.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Trial
- A Randomized Evaluation of MoodFX, a Patient-Centred e-Health Tool to Support Outcome Measurement for Depression: Une évaluation randomisée de MoodFX, un outil de santé en ligne centré sur le patient pour soutenir la mesure du résultat dans la dépression.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2024Trial
- Ecological Momentary Assessment versus Weekly Questionnaire Assessment of Change in Depression.Depression and anxiety · 2024Trial
- The effect of universal school-based mindfulness on anhedonia and emotional distress and its underlying mechanisms: A cluster randomised controlled trial via experience sampling in secondary schools.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Trial
- Associations of Momentary Mindfulness With Affect and Cannabis Desire in a Trial of Cannabis Use Interventions With and Without Momentary Assessment.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Trial
- Enhancing well-being and alleviating depressive symptoms in people with HIV/AIDS: An intervention based on if-then plans with self-affirming cognitions.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2022Trial
- Mindfulness interventions improve momentary and trait measures of attentional control: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Trial
- Comparing integrative cognitive-affective therapy and guided self-help cognitive-behavioral therapy to treat binge-eating disorder using standard and naturalistic momentary outcome measures: A randomized controlled trial.The International journal of eating disorders · 2020Trial
- Disrupting the path to craving: Acting without awareness mediates the link between negative affect and craving.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Trial
- A pragmatic trial of a group intervention in senior housing communities to increase resilience.International psychogeriatrics · 2020Trial
- Psychological mechanisms driving stress resilience in mindfulness training: A randomized controlled trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2019Trial
- Efficacy of a Web-Based Guided Recommendation Service for a Curated List of Readily Available Mental Health and Well-Being Mobile Apps for Young People: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Trial
- Investigating mechanisms and monitoring outcomes in functional neurological disorder: the unrealized potential of digital remote monitoring technologies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Intensive Longitudinal Data Collection Methods in Health Research: Tutorial for Selecting Measures and Designing a Sampling Protocol.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- Validating an aphasia-accessible ecological momentary assessment for daily depressive affect: A preliminary investigation.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
85 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
As mobile data capture tools for patient-reported outcomes proliferate in clinical research, a key dimension of measure performance is sensitivity to change. This study compared performance of patient-reported measures of mindfulness, depression, and anxiety symptoms using traditional paper-and-pencil forms versus real-time, ambulatory measurement of symptoms via ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Sixty-seven emotionally distressed older adults completed paper-and-pencil measures of mindfulness, depression, and anxiety along with two weeks of identical items reported during ambulatory monitoring via EMA before and after participation in a randomized trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) or a health education intervention. We calculated effect sizes for these measures across both measurement approaches and estimated the Number-Needed-to-Treat (NNT) in both measurement conditions. Study outcomes greatly differed depending on which measurement method was used. When EMA was used to measure clinical symptoms, older adults who participated in the MBSR intervention had significantly higher mindfulness and significantly lower depression and anxiety than participants in the health education intervention at post-treatment. However, these significant changes in symptoms were not found when outcomes were measured with paper-and-pencil measures. The NNT for mindfulness and depression measures administered through EMA were approximately 25-50% lower than NNTs derived from paper-and-pencil administration. Sensitivity to change in anxiety was similar across administration modes. In conclusion, EMA measures of depression and mindfulness substantially outperformed paper-and-pencil measures with the same items. The additional resources associated with EMA in clinical trials would seem to be offset by its greater sensitivity to detect change in key outcome variables.
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