User profiles of an electronic mental health tool for ecological momentary assessment: MEmind

• Published in: International journal of methods in psychiatric research 2017-03, Vol.26 (1), p.np-n/a
• Main Authors: Barrigón, María Luisa, Berrouiguet, Sofian, Carballo, Juan José, Bonal‐Giménez, Covadonga, Fernández‐Navarro, Pablo, Pfang, Bernadette, Delgado‐Gómez, David, Courtet, Philippe, Aroca, Fuensanta, Lopez‐Castroman, Jorge, Artés‐Rodríguez, Antonio, Baca‐García, Enrique
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Computer Science; Computers and Society; Ecological Momentary Assessment - standards; experience sampling methods; Female; health records; Human health and pathology; Humans; Internet; Life Sciences; Machine Learning; Male; Medical Informatics Applications; Mental Disorders - diagnosis; Mental health; Middle Aged; Original; Psychiatrics and mental health; Random Forest analysis; Santé publique et épidémiologie; smartphone; Statistics; Suicide
• ISSN: 1049-8931; 1557-0657; 1234-988X
• DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1554

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