ReviewJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2020
Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry.
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128 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 220 citations in OpenAlex.
- Beyond snapshots: A systematic review of dyadic and triadic parent-adolescent ecological momentary assessment studies across diverse and general populations.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment.Social neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Applications of the experience sampling method (ESM) in paediatric healthcare: a systematic review.Pediatric research · 2024Pooled it
- The added value of a micro-level ecological approach when mapping self-regulatory control processes and externalizing symptoms during adolescence: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The Use of Mobile Assessments for Monitoring Mental Health in Youth: Umbrella Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Behavioral Activation as an 'active ingredient' of interventions addressing depression and anxiety among young people: a systematic review and evidence synthesis.BMC psychology · 2021Pooled it
- A Systematic Review on TeleMental Health in Youth Mental Health: Focus on Anxiety, Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Pooled it
- Components of Behavioral Parent Training for Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Series of Replicated Single-Case Experiments.Behavior modification · 2023Trial
- Attachment Representation Moderates the Effectiveness of Behavioral Parent Training Techniques for Children with ADHD: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Microtrial.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Trial
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- Effectiveness of a brief lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health problems in urban, low-income schools in India: a randomised controlled trial.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2020Trial
- Digital Interventions to Facilitate Screening, Brief Interventions, and Referral to Treatment for Substance Use Among Adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2026Review
- How do you feel right now? Investigating momentary well-being in French adolescents using geographically-explicit ecological momentary assessment.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Developmental dynamics of symptoms of emotional problems in childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal network analysis.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Everyday emotion regulation and empathic accuracy in the parent-adolescent relationship.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Stress Mindsets Forecasting Students' Mental Health Trajectories: Evidence From an EMA Study.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Article
- Changes in Child Behaviour Following a Brief Parenting Intervention (Triple P) for Families of Children with Phenylketonuria (PKU): A Case Series.Behavior modification · 2026Article
- The association of daily urinary and bowel incontinence with emotional functioning in young adults with spina bifida: an ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
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- Alcohol consumption dynamics and day-to-day experiences of alcohol-related problems: Combining transdermal alcohol concentration sensors and daily self-reports in young adults' natural settings.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundEnhancements in mobile phone technology allow the study of children and adolescents' everyday lives like never before. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) uses these advancements to allow in-depth measurements of links between context, behavior, and physiology in youths' everyday lives.
findingsA large and diverse literature now exists on using EMA to study mental and behavioral health among youth. Modern EMA methods are built on a rich tradition of idiographic inquiry focused on the intensive study of individuals. Studies of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health have used EMA to characterize lived experience, document naturalistic within-person processes and individual differences in these processes, measure familiar constructs in novel ways, and examine temporal order and dynamics in youths' everyday lives.
conclusionsEcological momentary assessment is feasible and reliable for studying the daily lives of youth. EMA can inform the development and augmentation of traditional and momentary intervention. Continued research and technological development in mobile intervention design and implementation, EMA-sensor integration, and complex real-time data analysis are needed to realize the potential of just-in-time adaptive intervention, which may allow researchers to reach high-risk youth with intervention content when and where it is needed most.
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