Affect fluctuations examined with ecological momentary assessment in patients with current or remitted depression and anxiety disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is increasing interest in day-to-day affect fluctuations of patients with depressive and anxiety disorders. Few studies have compared repeated assessments of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) across diagnostic groups, and fluctuation patterns were not uniformly defined. The aim of this study is to compare affect fluctuations in patients with a current episode of depressive or anxiety disorder, in remitted patients and in controls, using affect instability as a core concept but also describing other measures of variability and adjusting for possible confounders.

Methods

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data were obtained from 365 participants of the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety with current (n = 95), remitted (n = 178) or no (n

SUBMITTER: Schoevers RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8381239 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature