Temporal dynamics of health and well-being: A crowdsourcing approach to momentary assessments and automated generation of personalized feedback

Lian van der Krieke*, Frank J Blaauw, Ando C Emerencia, Hendrika M Schenk, Joris P J Slaets, Elisabeth H Bos, Peter de Jonge, Bertus F Jeronimus

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Abstract

Objective: Recent developments in research and mobile health enable a quantitative idiographic approach in health research. The present study investigates the potential of an electronic diary crowdsourcing study in the Netherlands for (1) large-scale automated self-assessment for individual-based health promotion and (2) enabling research at both the between-persons and within-persons level. To illustrate the latter, we examined between-persons and within-persons associations between somatic symptoms and quality of life.

Methods: A website provided the general Dutch population access to a 30-day (3 times a day) diary study assessing 43 items related to health and well-being, which gave participants personalized feedback. Associations between somatic symptoms and quality of life were examined with a linear mixed model.

Results: A total of 629 participants completed 28,430 assessments, with a mean (SD) of 45 (32) assessments per participant. Most participants (n = 517 [82%]) were women and 531 (84%) had high education. Almost 40% of the participants (n = 247) completed enough assessments (t = 68) to generate personalized feedback including temporal dynamics between well-being, health behavior, and emotions. Substantial between-person variability was found in the within-person association between somatic symptoms and quality of life.

Conclusions: We successfully built an application for automated diary assessments and personalized feedback. The application was used by a sample of mainly highly educated women, which suggests that the potential of our intensive diary assessment method for large-scale health promotion is limited. However, a rich data set was collected that allows for group-level and idiographic analyses that can shed light on etiological processes and may contribute to the development of empirical-based health promotion solutions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)213-223
Number of pages11
JournalPsychosomatic Medicine
Volume79
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar-2017

Keywords

  • ecological momentary assessment
  • idiographic
  • dynamic effects
  • quality of life
  • person-tailored
  • self-assessment
  • TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS
  • PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION
  • DEPRESSION
  • LIFE
  • INVENTORY
  • USAGE

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