Building an ecological momentary assessment smartphone app for 4- to 10-year-old children: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) minimizes recall burden and maximizes ecological validity and has emerged as a valuable tool to characterize individual differences, assess contextual associations, and document temporal associations. However, EMA has yet to be reliably utilized in young children, in part due to concerns about responder reliability and limited compliance. The present study addressed these concerns by building a developmentally appropriate EMA smartphone app and testing the app for feasibility and usability with young children ages 4-10 (N = 20; m age = 7.7, SD = 2.0).

Methods

To pilot test the app, children completed an 11-item survey about their mood and behavior twice a day for 14 days. Parents also completed brief surveys twice a day to allo

SUBMITTER: Milojevich HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10468030 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature