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ArticleInformatics for health & social care2021

Geographically-explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) Architecture and Components: Lessons Learned from PMOMS.

Pedram Gharani, Hassan A Karimi, Meirman Syzdykbayev, Lora E Burke, Stephen L Rathbun, Esa M Davis, Tiffany L Gary-Webb, Dara D Mendez

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Article in Informatics for health & social care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Pedram GharaniGeoinformatics Laboratory, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3383-8910
Hassan A KarimiGeoinformatics Laboratory, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5331-5004
Meirman SyzdykbayevGeoinformatics Laboratory, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7049-5788
Lora E BurkeDepartment of Health and Community Systems, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2434-9867
Stephen L RathbunDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4704-5316
Esa M DavisDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Tiffany L Gary-WebbDepartment of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9843-1084
Dara D MendezDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3999-1991

Funding

Postpartum Weight Retention and Cardiometabolic Disparities: The Effects of Contexual, Psychosocial, and Behavioral FactorsR01HL135218 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MENDEZ, DARA DANEEN · 2017 to 2021
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NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL135218
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Geographically explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA), an extension of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), allows to record time-stamped geographic location information for behavioral data in the every-day environments of study participants. Considering that GEMA studies are continually gaining the attention of researchers and currently there is no single approach in collecting GEMA data, in this paper, we propose and present a GEMA architecture that can be used to conduct any GEMA study based on our experience developing and maintaining the Postpartum Mothers Mobile Study (PMOMS). Our GEMA client-server architecture can be customized to meet the specific requirements of each GEMA study. Key features of our proposed GEMA architecture include: utilization of widely used smartphones to make GEMA studies practical; alleviation of the burden of activities on participants by designing clients (mobile applications) that are very lightweight and servers that are heavyweight in terms of functionality; utilization of at least one positioning sensor to determine EMA contexts marked with locations; and communication through the Internet. We believe that our proposed GEMA architecture, with the illustrated foundation for GEMA studies in our exemplar study (PMOMS), will help researchers from any field conduct GEMA studies efficiently and effectively.

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Ecological Momentary AssessmentMobile ApplicationsFemaleHumansMothersPostpartum PeriodSmartphoneEcological Momentary Assessment (EMA)geographically-explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA)location-Based Servicesmobile Data Collectionreal-Time Data Capture

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PMID33612061
PMCPMC8154657

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