Ecological Momentary Assessment versus Weekly Questionnaire Assessment of Change in Depression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly used to monitor depressive symptoms in clinical trials, but little is known about the comparability of its outcomes to those of clinical interviews and questionnaires. In our study, we administered EMA and questionnaires to measure change in depressive symptoms and repetitive negative thinking (RNT) in a clinical trial and investigated (a) the size of intervention effects associated with both techniques and (b) their validity in predicting clinical interview outcomes (i.e., global functioning).

Materials and methods

Seventy-one depressed patients were randomly assigned to one of three psychological interventions. The EMA comprised a concise item set (four items per scale) and was administered three times per day

SUBMITTER: Tamm J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11919112 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature