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Uncovering the daily experiences of people with advanced cancer: adaptation and feasibility of the experience sampling method Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Lieve Van den Block
Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Clinical sciences
People with advanced metastatic cancer are at high risk of experiencing multiple symptoms and difficult emotions. Yet there is surprisingly little scientific knowledge on their momentary subjective experiences in daily life, their variation over time, and relationship with an individual’s context at a given moment. Currently available self-report measures cannot capture such information as they rely on retrospective recall and mental ...

Should we think more carefully when designing a study using experience sampling method? KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Research Group Psychiatry, Contextual Psychiatry

Momentary assessment techniques, such as the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), are structured diary techniques to frequently assess momentary experiences in the context of daily life. Momentary assessment techniques have several advantages over traditional retrospective assessments, such as minimized recall bias. However, ESM might be a demanding assessment tool as subjects are asked to provide self-assessments several times a day. ...

Building the methodological foundation for experience sampling method research KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Contextual Psychiatry

More and more mental health research is moving out of the lab and into people’s daily lives. One popular way of investigating people in their daily lives is the experience sampling method (ESM). In an ESM study, researchers give individuals short questionnaires about their daily experiences on a smartphone, multiple times per day and over several days. Even though many mental health researchers are using ESM, ...

DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS FOR PERSONALIZED MENTAL HEALTH CARE - Clinical use of Experience Sampling Methods KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Research Group Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Contextual Psychiatry, Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences

This PhD thesis aimed to address challenges in the development and implementation of clinically-oriented tools for using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) in routine clinical practice. The ESM is a technique for capturing and quantifying mental states and symptoms as they occur in daily life. It involves prompting individuals to fill out a questionnaire multiple times per day for several days in order to measure present ...

The emotional signature of anhedonia in depression and psychosis in daily life: Developing a fine-grained and temporal understanding using advanced Experience Sampling Methods KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Contextual Psychiatry

Depression and psychosis in adolescents and emerging adults have a significant economic, health, and social burden on an international scale. Targeting transdiagnostic factors that are common across disorders, and doing so early before symptoms develop or worsen, is critical to maximise impact and get more bang for buck. Anhedonia, the pervasive inability to anticipate and experience pleasure or interest, is a transdiagnostic feature of ...

Signaling changes in experience sampling data in real-time: Development and evaluation of statistical process control methods for detecting early warning signals of depression KU Leuven

Eva Ceulemans
Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS), Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences

Detecting early warning signals of impending depressive episodes would pave the way for timely intervention. Since depression is characterized by altered affective experiences, recent studies have investigated whether experience sampling (ESM) data regarding affective experiences in daily life may yield such early warning signals. In ESM studies, participants are instructed to report on their momentary affect at a number of measurement ...

Improving clinical management of mental illness using technology assisted Experience Sampling Methods. KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Contextual Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology

As a research tool, experience sampling method (ESM) has enabled researchers to gain novel insights into the mechanisms of mental illnesses. With new developments in digital technologies to support health care delivery and management, application of ESM to clinical settings has become more feasible. By providing clinicians and patients with detailed information about how mental states of the patient fluctuate in ...

m-Path: An experience sampling based tool for blended care KU Leuven

Peter Kuppens
Centre for Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Contextual Psychiatry
Mental health problems cause an enormous burden on individuals and society. Obtaining precise insight into these problems and how they occur in an individual’s daily life are crucial for diagnosis and treatment. The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) allows to capture and quantify people’s thoughts, feelings and behavior as they unfold in daily life. As such, ESM holds great promise to inform and improve psychotherapeutic treatment. However, ...

The who, how, and what of experience sampling - Building an evidence-based methodological foundation for experience-sampling research in different populations KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Contextual Psychiatry

More and more mental health research is moving out of the lab and into people’s daily lives. One popular way of investigating people in their daily lives is the experience sampling method (ESM). In an ESM study, researchers give individuals short questionnaires about their daily experiences on a smartphone, multiple times per day and over several days. Even though many mental health researchers are using ESM, basic questions surrounding the ...

When less is more: Two innovative approaches to shortening Experience Sampling questionnaires for Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Contextual Psychiatry

Mental health disorders affect a substantial portion of the global population. Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) leverage digital technology to provide real-time treatment for individuals facing mental health challenges. The experience sampling method (ESM), in which participants respond to repeated short questionnaires during their normal daily routines, is the method of choice to identify JITAI targets. However, impaired data ...