Portable mood mapping: the validity and reliability of analog scale displays for mood assessment via hand-held computer

Are electronic diaries useful for symptoms research? A systematic review

“…Although visual scales are constrained in length by the size of the screen (usually approximately 5Â5 cm in contrast to the standard VAS 10-cm line), their results closely matched those derived from paper VAS in the two validation studies that compared these [40,43]. Although these two studies examined testretest reliability, few of the association studies reported this.…”

Mood assessment via animated characters: An instrument to access and evaluate emotions in young children

“…MAAC (technical features) [28,29]. Computer software and computer animations were created that display an appealing tableau of sixteen feeling states, ensuring coverage of primary emotions often cited in the literature (joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, disgust) [6,30,31], a balance of positive, negative, and neutral emotions, and a balance of more intense and less intense feeling states.…”

Mood and the Menstrual Cycle

“…Psychiatric status was assessed with the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview [26]. We lent each participant a Palm Inc. Treo 650 HHC loaded with mental health telemetry software [25] . Telemetry ensured that data were both truly prospective and temporally precise, eliminating bias from recall [27,28,29].…”

“…Firstly, such knowledge shapes women’s own expectations about their health [21,22,23,24], and secondly, it can guide the development of theoretical models of mood and mood variability. The MiDL project used a novel data collection strategy, mental health telemetry [25], which uses real-time wireless networking to transmit self-report ratings from participants’ cell phones.…”