Missing data in microrandomized trials: Challenges and opportunities.

ABSTRACT: The vision of leveraging digital technologies to deliver real-time psychological interventions in everyday settings is realized via just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) - an intervention design that guides the use of rapidly changing information about a person's internal states and contexts to decide whether and how to intervene in daily life. Microrandomized trials (MRTs) were developed as an experimental design to address scientific questions about how to best construct JITAIs, enabling scientists to investigate whether, what type, and under what conditions, intervention delivery can promote behavior change. However, missing data present challenges to the ability of MRTs to inform the development of JITAIs. This article articulates the multiple sources of missing data that can man

SUBMITTER: Zhang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12618347 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature