SynthesisNutrients2019
A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment of Diet: Implications and Perspectives for Nutritional Epidemiology.
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adverse Events of Mood Monitoring and Ambulatory Assessment in Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
- School-based healthy eating interventions for adolescents aged 10-19 years: an umbrella review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- Understanding health behaviours in context: A systematic review and meta-analysis of ecological momentary assessment studies of five key health behaviours.Health psychology review · 2022Pooled it
- The Effect of Alcohol on Telomere Length: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological Evidence and a Pilot Study during Pregnancy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- A comparison of personalized and fixed interval signal-contingent ecological momentary assessment to capture dietary data: a double-blinded crossover feasibility study.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Trial
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- Evaluating the Effects of Rewards and Schedule Length on Response Rates to Ecological Momentary Assessment Surveys: Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
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- Motives matter: A smartphone EMA study on the association between motives to exercise, exercise engagement and mood.British journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Preliminary Examination of an Innovative mHealth-Based Dietary Fiber Intervention to Improve Outcomes in Young Adults With Prediabetes: Protocol for a Single-Arm Feasibility Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Behavioral and Contextual Patterns Derived From Ecological Momentary Assessment and Wearable Sensors and Their Associations With Health-Related Outcomes: WEALTH Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- The Theory of Metabolic Jet Lag in Bipolar Disorder: A Pilot Feasibility Study Exploring the Association Between Eating Rhythm Disruption and Illness Burden Parameters.Bipolar disorders · 2026Article
- Emotional Eating Under Negative Affect: A Narrative Review from the Perspectives of Emotion Regulation and Reward Processes in Food Choice.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Development and usability of a mobile ecological momentary assessment platform for dietary surveillance in the U.S.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Article
- Associations of eating context with dietary quality, satiety, and postprandial blood glucose in free-living Singaporean adults during 9 days of intensive digital phenotyping.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Article
- A 50 year review of hyperpalatable foods consumed in binge-eating episodes.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- MOVE@NUS digital intervention cohort: protocol of a pilot study to promote healthy movement in university students.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2026Article
- The Feasibility of Smartwatch Micro-Ecological Momentary Assessment for Tracking Eating Patterns of Malaysian Children and Adolescents in the South-East Asian Community Observatory Child Health Update 2020: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Study protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial evaluating coarse-cereal intake intervention for obesity prevention among primary school students in suburban Beijing, China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Nomothetic and idiographic determinants of dietary lapses and adherence: an exploratory mixed methods ecological momentary assessment study of open-text responses.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
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Abstract
The ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of eating behaviors represents an innovative, detailed and valid approach to capture the complexity of food intake and to overcome limitations of traditional dietary assessment methods. Moreover, EMA studies might generate a large variety of data (e.g., dietary, behavioral, physical, sociopsychological, and contextual information), thereby enabling to examine concurrent exposures and events. Due to the increasing number of studies in this field of research, here we systematically reviewed EMA methods for the assessment of dietary intake in epidemiological studies, and discussed implications and perspectives for future research. Our study summarized several protocols and platforms that may be applied to assess diet in terms of eating frequency, choices, and habits. Nearly 38% of studies used an event-contingent strategy by asking participants to report foods and beverages consumed in real-time at each eating occasion. Instead, approximately 55% of studies used a signal-contingent prompting approach that notified the participants to record their dietary consumption. The remaining studies used a combination of event- and signal-contingent protocols to compare their accuracy or to improve the assessment of dietary data. Although both approaches might improve the accuracy and ecological validity of dietary assessment-also reducing the burden for participants-some limitations should nevertheless be considered. Despite these limitations, our systematic review pointed out that EMA can be applied in various fields of nutritional epidemiology, from the identification of determinants of dietary habits in healthy people to the management of patients with eating or metabolic disorders. However, more efforts should be encouraged to improve the validity and the reliability of EMA and to provide further technological innovations for public health research and interventions.
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