Ecological Momentary Assessment of Youth Anxiety: Evaluation of Psychometrics for Use in Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT: Background: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) captures naturalistic experience in real time and holds promise to improve our understanding and treatment of youth psychopathology. While psychometric evaluation of EMA methods is crucial, particularly for use as a tool in clinical trials, research examining the reliability and validity of EMA items in youth is lacking. Method: This study evaluates EMA responses from 204 child and adolescent participants (M age = 12.54, 60.8% female), including 131 participants with an anxiety disorder and 73 participants with no psychiatric diagnosis. We assessed the within- and between-person variability, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity of two EMA items probing anx

SUBMITTER: Byrne ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10733775 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature