m-Path: an easy-to-use and highly tailorable platform for ecological momentary assessment and intervention in behavioral research and clinical practice.
ambulatory assessment
blended care
daily life
experience sampling
just-in-time adaptive interventions
mental health
mobile sensing
smartphones
Journal
Frontiers in digital health
ISSN: 2673-253X
Titre abrégé: Front Digit Health
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101771889
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
08
03
2023
accepted:
02
10
2023
medline:
3
11
2023
pubmed:
3
11
2023
entrez:
3
11
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In this paper, we present m-Path (www.m-Path.io), an online platform that provides an easy-to-use and highly tailorable framework for implementing smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and intervention (EMI) in both research and clinical practice in the context of blended care. Because real-time monitoring and intervention in people's everyday lives have unparalleled benefits compared to traditional data collection techniques (e.g., retrospective surveys or lab-based experiments), EMA and EMI have become popular in recent years. Although a surge in the use of these methods has led to a myriad of EMA and EMI applications, many existing platforms only focus on a single aspect of daily life data collection (e.g., assessment vs. intervention, active self-report vs. passive mobile sensing, research-dedicated vs. clinically-oriented tools). With m-Path, we aim to integrate all of these facets into a single platform, as it is exactly this all-in-one approach that fosters the clinical utility of accumulated scientific knowledge. To this end, we offer a comprehensive platform to set up complex and highly adjustable EMA and EMI designs with advanced functionalities, using an intuitive point-and click web interface that is accessible for researchers and clinicians with limited programming skills. We discuss the strengths of daily life data collection and intervention in general and m-Path in particular. We describe the regular workflow to set up an EMA or EMI design within the m-Path framework, and summarize both the basic functionalities and more advanced features of our software.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37920867
doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1182175
pmc: PMC10619650
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1182175Informations de copyright
© 2023 Mestdagh, Verdonck, Piot, Niemeijer, Kilani, Tuerlinckx, Kuppens and Dejonckheere.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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