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An Overview of Factors Associated with Adherence and Dropout to Ecological Momentary Assessments in Depression

Authors :
Colombo, D.
Cipresso, P.
Fernandez Alvarez, J.
Garcia Palacios, A.
Riva, G.
Cristina Botella
This work was supported by the Marie Curie EF-ST AffecTech Project, approved at call H2020 – MSCA – ITN – 2016 (project reference: 722022)
Source :
Publons, Scopus-Elsevier, Repositori Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Jaume I, Web of Science

Abstract

The use of technology-based Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) allows to repeatedly assess patients during daily life, in naturalistic settings and in precise moments of the day. To date, EMAs have been broadly adopted for the investigation of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Nevertheless, adherence still represents a clinical challenge, as depressed patients may be less prone to regularly complete daily reports. Through a systematic narrative review, we qualitatively investigated factors affecting adherence and dropout of MDD patients to EMA protocols. The mean adherence rate across studies was generally encouraging (mean: 80.66%, SD 11.71%), and was higher in studies collecting self-reports by means of smartphones, prompting patients less than 8 times per day and using a prefixed sampling method. Dropouts were mainly related to technical problems or under-threshold number of collected answers, often occurring in studies collecting data by means of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The implications of these results are discussed. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 722022<br />This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 722022

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Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Publons, Scopus-Elsevier, Repositori Universitat Jaume I, Universitat Jaume I, Web of Science
Accession number :
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