An ecological momentary assessment investigation of complex and conflicting emotions in youth with borderline personality disorder

A Review of Current Ambulatory Assessment Studies in Adolescent Samples and Practical Recommendations

“…Ambulatory assessment studies are not limited to adolescents with a typical developmental trajectory. In fact, in our review of recent AA studies, of the 23 unique studies, seven were conducted in clinical samples (e.g., youth in treatment, youth diagnosed with physical or psychiatric disorders), including adolescents with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Bray, Bundy, Ryan, & North, ), bipolar disorder (Andrewes, Hulbert, Cotton, Betts, & Chanen, 2017a), and anorexia nervosa (Kolar et al., ). In such clinical samples, the process of recruitment is slightly different.…”

“…In such clinical samples, the process of recruitment is slightly different. In these seven studies (Andrewes et al., 2017a; Bray et al., ; Kolar et al., ; Kranzler et al., ; Rauschenberg et al., ; Ross et al., ; Wallace et al., ), all clinical samples were recruited through clinical institutions such as mental health care institutions, health clinics, and hospitals, sometimes with additional measures such as flyers or advertisements (Kranzler et al., ; Wallace et al., ). As with schools, a strong alliance between the researcher and the institution is essential for success.…”

How Do Young People Understand Their Own Self-Harm? A Meta-synthesis of Adolescents’ Subjective Experience of Self-Harm

“…In an ecological momentary assessment study of self-harm among youth (15-25 years of age) with borderline personality disorder, participants completed a randomly prompted questionnaire about their affect, thoughts and behavior of self-harm six times per day for 6 days (Andrewes, Hulbert, Cotton, Betts, & Chanen, 2017). They showed increased negative and decreased positive feelings before self-harm, and a reduction in negative and an increase in positive feelings after self-harm.…”

“…Those classified as Multiple function/Anxious had high rates of hazardous drinking, but the multi-method group had highest psychopathology in general. Still, most studies on sub-groups focus on differences in the frequency of self-harm (Klonsky & Olino, 2008;Somer et al, 2015;Whitlock, Muehlenkamp, & Eckenrode, 2008;Xin et al, 2016), symptoms of mental illness (Ross & Heath, 2003;Stanford, Jones, & Hudson, 2016), psychosocial adjustment (Hamza & Willoughby, 2013), methods of self-harm (Andover, Pepper, Ryabchenko, Oricco, & Gibb, 2005), and suicidality (Andrewes et al, 2017;Xin et al, 2016). All considered, studies on sub-groups focus mostly on non-clinical or clinical adult samples, using questionnaires or structured data on mental illness.…”

Real-Time Monitoring of Suicide Risk among Adolescents: Potential Barriers, Possible Solutions, and Future Directions

“…This means that we are trying to characterize a time period where people may be less willing or able to complete a smartphone-based assessment of their current state. Supporting the idea that these barriers have contributed to our lack of information on the time before a suicide attempt, work has been done characterizing a related phenomenonnonsuicidal self-injury-which does not have such barriers (Andrewes, Hulbert, Cotton, Betts, & Chanen, 2017) because it occurs more frequently than suicide attempts.…”