Journal: Addictive behaviors

Article Title: Combining ecological momentary assessment with objective, ambulatory measures of behavior and physiology in substance-use research

doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.11.027

Figure Lengend Snippet: Field studies of substance use combining EMA with objective measurement of participants’ location

Article Snippet: Reference Substance(s) Measure added to EMA Participants Monitoring duration EMA device; other device(s) Compliance/Feasibility Notes Byrnes et al. 2017 alcohol GPS 170 adolescents (aged 14–16 years) 1 month Apple iPhone 5c smartphone with ActSoft Comet Tracker software mean 68.4% EMA response rate; GPS details N/A Epstein et al. 2014 opioids, cocaine GPS 27 opioid-dependent adults receiving methadone maintenance 16 weeks PalmPilot PDA; Qstarz BT-Q1000X GPS logger mean 79.0% EMA response rate; GPS data available for 85.9% of completed EMA entries Kirchner et al. 2013 tobacco GPS 475 adult smokers making a quit attempt Up to 1 month Blackberry 9330 smartphone 79% EMA response rate; GPS tracking “successful” in 475/486 individuals consenting Mennis et al. 2016 alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs GPS 139 adolescents (aged 13–14 years) 6 × 4-day periods, completed every other month for 1 year “mobile phone with embedded GPS” (model N/A) 50% EMA response rate; GPS data available for 41% of not-at-home EMA entries EMA to collect subjective responses to environment; drug use assessed by baseline questionnaire Mitchell et al. 2014 tobacco GPS 10 adult smokers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 7 days Palm Treo 755P palmtop computer; Transystem i-Blue 747A+ GPS logger EMA details N/A; 70% of participants met a priori GPS data quantity cutoff Sarker et al. 2016 opioids, poly-drug use ECG and respiration (controlling for physical activity), GPS 38 opioid-dependent poly-drug users receiving opioid agonist maintenance 4 weeks smartphone (EMA, model N/A); wireless physiological sensor suite (ECG, respiration, accelerometry) + Android-based smartphone (model N/A) 88.0% EMA answer rate; 10.54 hours acceptable ECG data from 12.52 hours sensors wear per day; ~70% of physiologic al data available after excluding physical activity; GPS details N/A stress inferred from physiological monitoring using the model of Hovsepian et al. 2015 ; GPS then used to assess environment al features associated with stress inference Watkins et al. 2014 tobacco GPS 47 adult smokers making a quit attempt (+ 55 additional parent-study participants with no GPS data) 1 week LG Optimus P509 smartphone 84.2% EMA response rate; GPS data available for 29.9% of completed EMA entries GPS recording scheduled to occur only when participants were responding to EMA Open in a separate window Field studies of substance use combining EMA with objective measurement of participants’ location.

Techniques: Software, Activity Assay