Practitioner and researcher perspectives on the utility of ecological momentary assessment in mental health care: A survey study

Piot, Maarten; Mestdagh, Merijn; Riese, Harriëtte; Weermeijer, Jeroen; Brouwer, Jannie; Kuppens, Peter; Dejonckheere, Egon; Bos, Fionneke M.

doi:10.1016/j.invent.2022.100575

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“…The pilot and observational studies will use a 59-item follow-up questionnaire battery containing the EORTC QLQ-C30 (30 items) to measure quality of life,34 the Amnestic Comparative Self-Assessment (7 items) to measure subjective well-being,43 a questionnaire to assess the experience of taking part in the study as an indicator of acceptability (19 items, including the following concepts of the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability: affective attitude, burden, opportunity cost, perceived effectiveness, self-efficacy and ethicality44) and careless responding (ie, not paying sufficient attention while responding; 3 items; online supplemental materials 5 and 6). The latter questionnaire was largely based on previous ESM studies in other disciplines 45–47. The pilot study will include a 17-item adapted version of the SUS similar to the one for the usability interviews, pertaining to the usability of the ESM questionnaire and the study procedure.…”

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Investigating experiences of people with advanced breast or lung cancer in their natural context: protocol for an experience sampling study

Geeraerts,

Pivodic,

De Nooijer

et al. 2024

BMJ Open

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IntroductionPeople with advanced cancer can experience a wide range of multidimensional symptoms or concerns, but little is known about when and how these fluctuate in daily life. Experience sampling methods (ESMs) involve repeated self-reports in people’s natural contexts aimed at uncovering everyday life experiences. ESM has limited recall bias and good ecological validity but might be burdensome to patients. This study aims to pretest and evaluate the feasibility and clinical utility of a validated ESM and use it to explore everyday experiences of people living with advanced breast or lung cancer.Methods and analysisIn step 1, we will optimise our ESM method by pretesting it through usability interviews and a pilot ESM study. In step 2, we will evaluate and use the ESM method through an observational ESM study to investigate the daily experiences of people with advanced breast or lung cancer. Step 2 also includes interviews with healthcare professionals to determine the clinical utility of ESM in oncology. Participants will complete a digital questionnaire ten times per day, measuring momentary experiences in the physical, psychological, social, spiritual-existential domains and context. Multilevel regression models will analyse fluctuations and temporal relations among measured experiences and context. Analyses also include evaluation of compliance and participation rates. We will apply content analysis to the usability interviews and follow-up interviews of the pilot ESM study.Ethics and disseminationWe obtained approval from the ethics committees of the University Hospitals of Brussels (BUN: 1432023000043) and Ghent (ONZ-2023-0136). Results will be published in open-access, peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences. If ESM appears feasible in this population, it could offer new insights into the daily experiences and help optimise support for people with advanced cancer.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating experiences of people with advanced breast or lung cancer in their natural context: protocol for an experience sampling study

Geeraerts,

Pivodic,

De Nooijer

et al. 2024

BMJ Open

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“…Attitudes towards these kinds of novel methods play an important role in clinicians' openness to using the resulting tools (Ellison, 2020;Piot et al, 2022;Soyster et al, 2023).…”

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“…Piot and colleagues (2022), on the other hand, uncovered much more favorable clinician and researcher responses to using EMA in clinical practice. The main reservations regarding the use of EMA were related to how time-consuming or burdensome it could be, for both patients filling it out and clinicians interpreting it (Piot et al, 2022). EMA was also viewed with skepticism in two other studies (Frumkin et al, 2021;Zimmermann et al, 2019), primarily because clinical implications were perceived to be missing.…”

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To Use or Not to Use: Exploring Therapists’ Experiences with Pre-Treatment EMA-Based Personalized Feedback in the TheraNet Project

Hall¹,

Lappenbusch²,

Wiegmann³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Background: Using idiographic network models in psychotherapy has been a growing area of interest. However, little is known about the perceived clinical utility of network models. The present study aims to explore therapists’ experiences with network model-based feedback within the context of the TheraNet Project. Methods: Therapists who had received network-based feedback were invited to retrospective focus groups. The focus group questions related to how participation in the study influenced the therapeutic relationship, how the networks were used, and what might improve their clinical utility. The transcribed focus groups were analyzed descriptively using qualitative content analysis. Results: Most therapists mentioned using the feedback to solidify their case concept, while fewer therapists discussed the feedback directly with the patients. Several barriers to using the feedback were discussed, as well as various suggestions for how to make it more clinically useful. Many therapists reported skepticism with regards to research in the outpatient training center in general, though they were also all pleasantly surprised by being involved, having their opinions heard, and showing a readiness to adapt research to their needs/abilities. Conclusions: This study highlights the gap between researchers’ and therapists’ perceptions about what useful feedback should look like. The TheraNet therapists’ interest in adapting the feedback and building more informative feedback systems signals a general openness to the implementation of clinically relevant research. We provide suggestions for future implementations of network-based feedback systems in the outpatient clinical training center setting.

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“…This is a formidable obstacle for employing ambulatory assessment at scale—ambulatory assessment software that can meet the needs of both patients and clinicians will require stakeholder involvement over the course of its development as well as interdisciplinary teams that can appropriately address the needs of stakeholders. To give a few examples, this will require that software capable of providing meaningful summary statistics or other data (e.g., strength of relations between symptoms) with little to no analyses needing to be conducted by clinicians, ambulatory assessment protocols can be designed with ease and in a flexible manner (i.e., personalized), potentially be integrated with electronic health record systems, and ensure that ambulatory assessment software keeps up with routine operating system updates (Piot et al, 2022; Wasil et al, 2020). Despite these obstacles, promising evidence of how these obstacles can be addressed can be found in the web-based Personalized Treatment by Real-time Assessment application (PETRA; Bos et al, 2022).…”

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Translating the Transdiagnostic: Aligning Assessment Practices With Research Advances

Vize,

G. C. Wright

2023

Assessment

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Researchers and clinicians working within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition, Text Rev ( DSM-5-TR) framework face a difficult question: what does it mean to have an evidence-based assessment of a nonevidence-based diagnostic construct? Alternative nosological approaches conceptualize psychopathology as (a) hierarchical, allowing researchers to move between levels of description and (b) dimensional, eliminating artificial dichotomies between disorders and the dichotomy between mental illness and mental well-being. In this article, we provide an overview of ongoing efforts to develop validated measures of transdiagnostic nosologies (i.e., the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology; HiTOP) with applications for measurement-based care. However, descriptive models like HiTOP, which summarize patterns of covariation among psychopathology symptoms, do not address dynamic processes underlying the problems associated with psychopathology. Ambulatory assessment, well-suited to examine such dynamic processes, has also developed rapidly in recent decades. Thus, the goal of the current article is twofold. First, we provide a brief overview of developments in constructing valid measures of the HiTOP model as well as developments in ambulatory assessment practices. Second, we outline how these parallel developments can be integrated to advance measurement-based treatment. We end with a discussion of some major challenges for future research to address to integrate advances more fully in transdiagnostic and ambulatory assessment practices.

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Practitioner and researcher perspectives on the utility of ecological momentary assessment in mental health care: A survey study

Cited by 21 publications

References 35 publications

Investigating experiences of people with advanced breast or lung cancer in their natural context: protocol for an experience sampling study

Investigating experiences of people with advanced breast or lung cancer in their natural context: protocol for an experience sampling study

To Use or Not to Use: Exploring Therapists’ Experiences with Pre-Treatment EMA-Based Personalized Feedback in the TheraNet Project

Translating the Transdiagnostic: Aligning Assessment Practices With Research Advances

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