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ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2020

Time to get personal? The impact of researchers choices on the selection of treatment targets using the experience sampling methodology.

Jojanneke A Bastiaansen, Yoram K Kunkels, Frank J Blaauw, Steven M Boker, Eva Ceulemans, Meng Chen, Sy-Miin Chow, Peter de Jonge, Ando C Emerencia, Sacha Epskamp and 22 more

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Article in Journal of psychosomatic research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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58citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
17.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 153 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors at 13 institutions in 5 countries.

Jojanneke A BastiaansenInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands; Department of Education and Research, Friesland Mental Health Care Services, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
Yoram K KunkelsInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Frank J BlaauwDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands; Distributed Systems group, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Steven M BokerDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Eva CeulemansFaculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Meng ChenDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA.
Sy-Miin ChowDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA.
Peter de JongeInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Ando C EmerenciaDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Sacha EpskampDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Aaron J FisherDepartment of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA.
Ellen L HamakerDepartment of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Peter KuppensFaculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Wolfgang LutzDepartment of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany.
M Joseph MeyerDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Robert MoulderDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Zita OraveczDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA.
Harriëtte RieseInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Julian RubelDepartment of Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.
Oisín RyanDepartment of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Michelle N ServaasInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Gustav SjobeckDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Evelien SnippeInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Timothy J TrullDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
Wolfgang TschacherUniversity Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Date C van der VeenInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Marieke WichersInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Phillip K WoodDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
William C WoodsDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
Aidan G C WrightDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
Casper J AlbersDepartment of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Laura F BringmannInterdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Electronic address: l.f.bringmann@rug.nl.
University Medical Center Groningen · NLUniversity of Groningen · NLUniversity of Virginia · USPennsylvania State University · USKU Leuven · BEUniversity of Missouri · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · USUtrecht University · NLUniversität Trier · DEUniversity of Amsterdam · NLUniversity of Bern · CHUniversity of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Giessen · DE

Funding

Risk for Alcohol Impaired Driving: From the Laboratory to the Natural EnvironmentR01AA019546 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI MCCARTHY, DENIS M · 2010 to 2021
$4.3M
Refining the Diagnosis of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Comprehensive ApproachR01AA024133 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI SHER, KENNETH JAMES, STEINLEY, DOUGLAS L · 2015 to 2018
$2.1M
The Center for Innovation in Intensive Longitudinal Studies (CIILS)U24AA027684 · NIAAA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI CHOW, SY-MIIN · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA019546NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA024133NIAAA NIH HHS U24 AA027684NIMH NIH HHS L30 MH101760
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveOne of the promises of the experience sampling methodology (ESM) is that a statistical analysis of an individual's emotions, cognitions and behaviors in everyday-life could be used to identify relevant treatment targets. A requisite for clinical implementation is that outcomes of such person-specific time-series analyses are not wholly contingent on the researcher performing them.

methodsTo evaluate this, we crowdsourced the analysis of one individual patient's ESM data to 12 prominent research teams, asking them what symptom(s) they would advise the treating clinician to target in subsequent treatment.

resultsVariation was evident at different stages of the analysis, from preprocessing steps (e.g., variable selection, clustering, handling of missing data) to the type of statistics and rationale for selecting targets. Most teams did include a type of vector autoregressive model, examining relations between symptoms over time. Although most teams were confident their selected targets would provide useful information to the clinician, not one recommendation was similar: both the number (0-16) and nature of selected targets varied widely.

conclusionThis study makes transparent that the selection of treatment targets based on personalized models using ESM data is currently highly conditional on subjective analytical choices and highlights key conceptual and methodological issues that need to be addressed in moving towards clinical implementation.

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Crowdsourcing scienceElectronic diaryMental disordersPersonalized medicinePsychological networksTime-series analysis

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PMID32862062
PMCPMC8287646
OpenAlexW3047574483

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