@article{ref1,
title="User profiles of an electronic mental health tool for ecological momentary assessment: MEmind",
journal="International journal of methods in psychiatric research",
year="2017",
author="Barrigón, María Luisa and Berrouiguet, Sofian and Carballo, Juan José and Bonal-Giménez, Covadonga and Fernandez-Navarro, Pablo and Pfang, Bernadette and Delgado-Gomez, David and Courtet, Philippe and Aroca, Fuensanta and Lopez-Castroman, Jorge and Artés-Rodríguez, Antonio and Baca-Garcia, Enrique and MEmind study group, ",
volume="26",
number="1",
pages="e1554-e1554",
abstract="Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is gaining importance in psychiatry. This article assesses the characteristics of patients who used a new electronic EMA tool: the MEmind Wellness Tracker. Over one year, 13811 adult outpatients in our Psychiatry Department were asked to use MEmind. We collected information about socio-demographic data, psychiatric diagnoses, illness severity, stressful life events and suicidal thoughts/behavior. We compared active users (N = 2838) and non-active users (N = 10,973) of MEmind and performed a Random Forest analysis to assess which variables could predict its use. Univariate analyses revealed that MEmind-users were younger (42.2 ± 13.5 years versus 48.5 ± 16.3 years; χ2  = 18.85; P < 0.001) and more frequently diagnosed with anxiety related disorders (57.9% versus 46.7%; χ2  = 105.92; P = 0.000) than non-active users. They were more likely to report thoughts about death and suicide (up to 24% of active users expressed wish for death) and had experienced more stressful life events than non-active users (57% versus 48.5%; χ2  = 64.65; P < 0.001). In the Random Forest analysis, 31 variables showed mean decrease accuracy values higher than zero with a 95% confidence interval (CI), including sex, age, suicidal thoughts, life threatening events and several diagnoses. In the light of these results, strategies to improve EMA and e-Mental Health adherence are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-8931",
doi="10.1002/mpr.1554",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1554"
}