In contrast to the validated scales for face-to-face assessment of negative symptoms, no widely accepted tools currently exist for remote monitoring of negative symptoms. Remote assessment of negative symptoms can be broadly divided into three categories: 1) remote administration of an existing…
Technology is ubiquitous in society and is now being extensively used in mental health applications. Both assessmentand treatment strategies are being developed and deployed at a rapid pace. The authors review the current domains oftechnology utilization, describe standards for quality evaluation,…
It is critical to intervene early in the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage of the Alzheimer’s disease trajectory, but traditional cognitive testing methods are costly, burdensome, and difficult to access. We examined adherence and validity data to a 30-day self-administered…
Background Previous weekly sampling studies found that persistent sad moods are associated with disability in bipolar illness. However, those data were collected retrospectively. We examined the momentary quality of activities (productive, unproductive, and passive recreation) in an ecological momentary assessment…
Objectives: Schizophrenia participants generate self-reports of their competencies that differ from objective information. They may base their reports on momentary moods or experiences rather than objective data. Theories of delusion formation implicate overconfidence during self-assessment as a cause. Methods: Ecological…
Sedentary behavior contributes to a shortened life expectancy in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs), highlighting the need for effective interventions to improve health. This study examined whether reduced ecological momentary assessment (EMA) measures of sedentary activities were observed in…
Background Emotion recognition deficits are linked with social dysfunction in psychosis, as is inaccurate self-assessment of emotion recognition abilities. However, little is known about the link between ER and real-time social appraisals and behavior. Methods In 136 people with psychotic…
The serious mental illness (SMI) phenotype is marked by several different symptom domains and biomedical challenges. The nature of SMI renders in-person assessment challenging, due to problems in event recall, response biases, lack of experience in real-world functional domains, and…
Smartphone-based devices are increasingly recognized to assess disease symptoms in daily life (e.g. ecological momentary assessment, EMA). Despite this development in digital psychiatry, clinical trials are mainly based on point assessments of psychopathology. This study investigated expectable increases in statistical…
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