Enhancing group lifestyle intervention for depression with ecological momentary assessment: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: To investigate the impact of smartphone-delivered ecological momentary assessment (EMA) as a self-monitoring tool to complement a 6-week group face-to-face delivered multicomponent lifestyle medicine (LM) intervention for improving depressive symptoms. 56 Chinese Hong Kong adults with at least a moderate level of depressive symptoms were randomized to the EMA-supported intervention (LM/S; n = 18), pure intervention (PLM; n = 20), or care-as-usual (CAU; n = 18) groups. Data were collected at baseline, immediate post-intervention, and 3-month follow-up. LM/S only showed significantly greater vigorous physical activity than PLM at Week 19. At Week 7, PLM demonstrated a marginal reduction in depressive symptoms and significant improvements in insomnia symptoms, physical health-related quality

SUBMITTER: Wong VW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12572295 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature