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Suicidal thoughts, suicidal behaviours and self-harm in daily life: A systematic review of ecological momentary assessment studies.
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence and risk factors of sleep disturbances among adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment Procedures of Self-Harm (With and Without Suicidal Intent) Studies in Adolescents and Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Pooled it
- The Application of AI to Ecological Momentary Assessment Data in Suicide Research: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Ecological Momentary Assessment of Self-Harm Thoughts and Behaviors: Systematic Review of Constructs From the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model.JMIR mental health · 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
- A meta-analysis on the affect regulation function of real-time self-injurious thoughts and behaviours.Nature human behaviour · 2022Pooled it
- Synthesis of evidence on the use of ecological momentary assessments to monitor health outcomes after traumatic injury: rapid systematic review.BMC medical research methodology · 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
- Momentary emotion-related distress, negative emotions, and suicidal ideation: Findings from an RCT among adults in inpatient psychiatric care.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Trial
- Comparing the Impacts of Crisis Response Plan and Self-Administered Safety Plan Use in Real Life on Key Clinical Outcomes.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Trial
- Predicting next-day suicidal urges, depression, and PTSD symptoms using ecological momentary assessments and passive sensing of sleep among military service members and veterans.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Digital mood phenotyping predicts short- and long-term suicidal ideation across a two-year timescale.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Mood dynamics in adolescents and young adults with and without a history of suicidal thoughts and actions: a network approach.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Bidirectional associations between negative relationship events and suicidal ideation: an EMA study of stress exposure and generation.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2026Article
- Anger predicts suicidal ideation in a sample of veterans with nonsuicidal self-injury: An ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Emotion Differentiation and Dynamics Predicting Suicide Outcomes in High-Risk Adults.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties of the Persian Brief Suicide Cognitions Scale (B-SCS): a validation study among individuals with suicidal thoughts.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Age-related sex differences in factors associated with suicidal ideation: a short-term longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Qualitative content analysis of reactivity effects and feasibility of ecological momentary assessments of suicide-related thoughts and behaviors in the long-term and in suicidal crises.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Initial Development of a Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Test for Intensive Longitudinal Assessment of Suicide Risk: Development and Usability Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundEcological Momentary Assessments (EMA) offer an approach to understand the daily risk factors of suicide and self-harm of individuals through the use of self-monitoring techniques using mobile technologies.
objectivesThis systematic review aimed to examine the results of studies on suicidality risk factors and self-harm that used Ecological Momentary Assessments.
methodsPubmed and PsycINFO databases were searched up to April 2020. Bibliographies of eligible studies were hand-searched, and 744 abstracts were screened and double-coded for inclusion.
resultsThe 49 studies using EMA included in the review found associations between daily affect, rumination and interpersonal interactions and daily non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Studies also found associations between daily negative affect and positive affect, social support, sleep, and emotions and a person's history of suicide and self-harm. Associations between daily suicide thoughts and self-harm, and psychopathology factors measured at baseline were also observed.
conclusionsResearch using EMA has the potential to offer clinicians the ability to understand the daily predictors, or risk factors, of suicide and self-harm. However, there are no clear reporting standards for EMA studies on risk factors for suicide. Further research should utilise longitudinal study designs, harmonise datasets and use machine learning techniques to identify patterns of proximal risk factors for suicide behaviours.
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