Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 23, 2025
05:52
Handwriting Analysis Indicates Spontaneous Dyskinesias in Neuroleptic Naïve Adolescents at High Risk for Psychosis
Published on: November 21, 2013
15.0K
Design decisions and data completeness for experience sampling methods used in psychosis: systematic review
Emilia Deakin1,2,3, Fiona Ng4, Emma Young5
1School of Health Sciences, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK. emilia.deakin@nottingham.ac.uk.
BMC Psychiatry
|October 28, 2022
Summary
This systematic review identified key design choices that improve adherence in experience sampling method (ESM) studies for people with psychosis. Findings guide better study design and data completeness for mental health research.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Digital Health
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
Background:
- Experience sampling method (ESM) is crucial for intensive longitudinal research, but adherence challenges exist in psychosis populations.
- Designing effective ESM studies for psychosis requires a clear typology of methodological choices.
- Lack of standardized reporting hinders data synthesis and methodological rigor in ESM research.
Approach:
- Systematic review of published ESM studies involving individuals with psychosis using digital data collection.
- Constant comparative method for identifying and comparing design decisions.
- Weighted regression analysis to determine predictors of data completeness.
Key Points:
- A typology of ESM design choices was developed, categorized into Study Context, ESM Approach, and ESM Implementation.
- Study design factors influencing data completeness include the type of ESM protocol, study duration, and researcher contact.
- Identified design decisions can enhance data completeness in ESM studies for psychosis.
Conclusions:
- This review offers a framework for understanding and optimizing ESM study designs in psychosis research.
- Evidence-based recommendations for improving data completeness are provided, applicable to various mental health populations.
- Findings aim to enhance the design, reporting, and synthesis of future ESM studies in mental health research.
Related Concept Videos
01:13Data Collection by Experiments
24.8K
Data collection is a systematic method of obtaining, observing, measuring, and analyzing accurate information. An experimental study is a standard method of data collection that involves the manipulation of the samples by applying some form of treatment prior to data collection. It refers to manipulating one variable to determine its changes on another variable. The sample subjected to treatment is known as “experimental units.”
An example of the experimental method is a public...
An example of the experimental method is a public...
24.8K
01:28Psychosis and Antipsychotic Drugs: Overview
421
The term "psychosis" refers to a spectrum of mental disorders characterized by abnormal thoughts, perceptions, and behaviors. It can manifest as mood disorders, dementia, delirium with psychotic features, substance-induced psychosis with psychotic features, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia. Among all these disorders, schizophrenia is the most common psychotic disorder, affecting 1% of the worldwide population. Psychotic...
421
01:16Experimental Designs
11.7K
An experimental design is a systematic process that allows researchers to evaluate the relationship between dependent and independent variables. There are three widely used types of experimental design - pre-experimental design, true experimental design, and quasi-experimental design. In pre-experimental design, the researcher compares the data before and after some interventions or treatments. The true-experimental design has more than one purposefully created group, a commonly measured...
11.7K
02:07Blind Procedures
10.8K
Ideally, the people who observe and record the children’s behavior are unaware of who was assigned to the experimental or control group, in order to control for experimenter bias. Experimenter bias refers to the possibility that a researcher’s expectations might skew the results of the study. Remember, conducting an experiment requires a lot of planning, and the people involved in the research project have a vested interest in supporting their hypotheses. If the observers knew which...
10.8K
02:16Surveys
15.0K
Often, psychologists develop surveys as a means of gathering data. Surveys are lists of questions to be answered by research participants, and can be delivered as paper-and-pencil questionnaires, administered electronically, or conducted verbally. Generally, the survey itself can be completed in a short time, and the ease of administering a survey makes it easy to collect data from a large number of people.
15.0K
01:20Study Designs in Epidemiology
361
Epidemiological study designs are fundamental tools for investigating the distribution, determinants, and control of health conditions in populations. They help researchers understand the relationships between exposures and outcomes, and they broadly fall into two categories: "observational" and "experimental" studies.
Observational studies are those where the researcher does not intervene but rather observes natural variations. They include cross-sectional, cohort, and...
Observational studies are those where the researcher does not intervene but rather observes natural variations. They include cross-sectional, cohort, and...
361