Universität zu Köln

Mareva, Silvana ORCID: 0000-0002-1728-9811, Thomson, David, Marenco, Pietro, Estal Munoz, Vctor, Ott, Caroline V., Schmidt, Barbara, Wingen, Tobias and Kassianos, Angelos P. (2016). Study Protocol on Ecological Momentary Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life Using a Smartphone Application. Front. Psychol., 7. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA. ISSN 1664-1078

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Abstract

Health-Related Quality of Life (HROoL) is a construct of increasing importance in modern healthcare, and has typically been assessed using retrospective instruments. While such measures have been shown to have predictive utility for clinical outcomes, several cognitive biases associated with human recall and current mood state may undermine their validity and reliability. Retrospective tools can be further criticized for their lack of ecology, as individuals are usually assessed in less natural settings such as hospitals and health centers, and may be obliged to spend time and money traveling to receive assessment. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is an alternative, as mobile assessment using mobile health (mHealth) technology has the potential to minimize biases and overcome many of these limitations. Employing an EMA methodology, we will use a smartphone application to collect data on real-time HROoL, with an adapted version of the widely used VVHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. We aim to recruit a total of 450 healthy participants. Participants will be prompted by the application to report their real-time HROoL over 2 weeks together with information on mood and current activities. At the end of 2 weeks, they will complete a retrospective assessment of their HROoL and they will provide information about their sleep quality and perceived stress. The psychometric properties of real-time HROoL will be assessed, including analysis of the factorial structure, reliability and validity of the measure, and compared with retrospective HROoL responses for the same 2-week testing period. Further, we aim to identify factors associated with real-time HROoL (e.g., mood, activities), the feasibility of the application, and within- and between-person variability in real-time HROoL. We expect real-time HROoL to have adequate validity and reliability, and positive responses on the feasibility of using a smartphone application for routine HRQoL assessment. The direct comparison of real-time and retrospective measures in this study will provide important novel insight into the efficacy of mHealth applications for HROoL assessment. If shown to be valid, reliable and feasible for the collection of HRQoL data, mHealth applications may have future potential for facilitating clinical assessment, patient-physician communication, and monitoring individual HRQoL over course of treatment.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Mareva, Silvana UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1728-9811 UNSPECIFIED Thomson, David UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Marenco, Pietro UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Estal Munoz, Vctor UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ott, Caroline V. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schmidt, Barbara UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wingen, Tobias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kassianos, Angelos P. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-269811
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01086
Journal or Publication Title:	Front. Psychol.
Volume:	7
Date:	2016
Publisher:	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Place of Publication:	LAUSANNE
ISSN:	1664-1078
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ONCOLOGY PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC DIARY; SLEEP; PAIN; POPULATION; ADAPTATION; EXPERIENCE; OUTCOMES; CANCER; RECALL Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/26981