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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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 213-223 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Psychosomatic Medicine |
Volume | 79 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 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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HND: How Nuts Are The Dutch
Jeronimus, B. (PI), de Jonge, P. (PI), Bos, E. (Collaborator), Emerencia, A. (Collaborator), Wardenaar, K. (Collaborator), Wardenaar-Wigman, H. (Collaborator), Wichers, M. (Collaborator), Snippe, E. (Collaborator), Blaauw, F. (Collaborator) & aan het Rot, M. (Collaborator)
19/12/2013 → …
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