Mood TrackingEvidence & Dosage
Daily mood logging, correlations with sleep/exercise/nutrition.
Evidence at a glance
- Total studies
- 128
- With abstract
- 50
- Meta / Systematic / RCT
- 0
- Highly cited
- 50
- Publication years
- 1988–2026
Mood Tracking in the context of Diagnostics & Biomarkers
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Go to Diagnostics & BiomarkersTop studies on Mood Tracking
Ranked by influential-citation count and publication year.
A procedure for evaluating sensitivity to within-person change: can mood measures in diary studies detect change reliably?
Personality & social psychology bulletin2006n=164200 influential citationsThe recent growth in diary and experience sampling research has increased research attention on how people change over time in natural settings. Often however, the measures in these studies were originally developed for studying…
Dropout rates in clinical trials of smartphone apps for depressive symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of affective disorders2020n=3,336200 influential citations<h4>Background</h4>Low engagement and attrition from app interventions is an increasingly recognized challenge for interpreting and translating the findings from digital health research. Focusing on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of…
Digital Phenotyping for Monitoring Mental Disorders: Systematic Review.
Journal of medical Internet research2023138 influential citationsBackground The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the impact and spread of mental illness and made health services difficult to access; therefore, there is a need for remote, pervasive forms of mental health monitoring. Digital phenotyping is…
Diagnosing bipolar disorder and the effect of antidepressants: a naturalistic study.
The Journal of clinical psychiatry2000n=85128 influential citations<h4>Objectives</h4>To determine if bipolar disorder is accurately diagnosed in clinical practice and to assess the effects of antidepressants on the course of bipolar illness.<h4>Method</h4>Charts of outpatients with affective disorder…
Mood and the mundane: relations between daily life events and self-reported mood.
Journal of personality and social psychology1988123 influential citationsDaily mood ratings and corresponding diary entries were studied to determine relations between common events and two independent mood factors--Positive Affect (PA) and Negative Affect (NA)--in a sample of 18 young adults over a 3-month…
Ecological momentary assessment of mood disorders and mood dysregulation.
Psychological assessment2009122 influential citationsIn this review, we discuss ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies on mood disorders and mood dysregulation, illustrating 6 major benefits of the EMA approach to clinical assessment: (a) Real-time assessments increase accuracy and…
Affective instability: measuring a core feature of borderline personality disorder with ecological momentary assessment.
Journal of abnormal psychology2008117 influential citationsEcological momentary assessment (EMA; Stone & Shiffman, 1994) was used to characterize and quantify a dynamic process--affective instability in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Sixty outpatients (34 with BPD and affective…
Digital Phenotyping for Stress, Anxiety, and Mild Depression: Systematic Literature Review.
JMIR mHealth and uHealth2024n=8117 influential citations<h4>Background</h4>Unaddressed early-stage mental health issues, including stress, anxiety, and mild depression, can become a burden for individuals in the long term. Digital phenotyping involves capturing continuous behavioral data via…
From smartphone data to clinically relevant predictions: A systematic review of digital phenotyping methods in depression.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2024n=9,801103 influential citations<h4>Background</h4>Smartphone-based digital phenotyping enables potentially clinically relevant information to be collected as individuals go about their day. This could improve monitoring and interventions for people with Major Depressive…
Three times more days depressed than manic or hypomanic in both bipolar I and bipolar II disorder.
Bipolar disorders2007n=40595 influential citations<h4>Objectives</h4>To assess the proportion of time spent in mania, depression and euthymia in a large cohort of bipolar subjects studied longitudinally, and to investigate depression/mania ratios in patients with bipolar I versus bipolar…
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