Publications by authors named "A C Emerencia"
Background: Smartphone self-monitoring of mood, symptoms, and contextual factors through ecological momentary assessment (EMA) provides insights into the daily lives of people undergoing psychiatric treatment. Therefore, EMA has the potential to improve their care. To integrate EMA into treatment, a clinical tool that helps clients and clinicians create personalized EMA diaries and interpret the gathered data is needed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResilience in sports: a multidisciplinary, dynamic, and personalized perspective.
Int Rev Sport Exerc Psychol
February 2022
Athletes are exposed to various psychological and physiological stressors, such as losing matches and high training loads. Understanding and improving the resilience of athletes is therefore crucial to prevent performance decrements and psychological or physical problems. In this review, resilience is conceptualized as a dynamic process of bouncing back to normal functioning following stressors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The role of anxiety symptoms in the development of functional somatic symptoms (FSS) is unknown. Somatic symptoms may be triggered by or give rise to anxiety symptoms. This study aimed to 1) explore interrelationships among within-day worrying, feeling anxious, and somatic symptoms, and 2) investigate the association between these interrelationships and overall level of FSS.
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- - The study aims to explore how individual ESM data can inform personalized treatment by seeing if different research teams could agree on which symptoms to target in therapy.
- - Twelve research teams analyzed the same patient's ESM data but showed significant variation in their preprocessing methods, statistical approaches, and target symptom selections, with no two teams arriving at the same recommendations.
- - The findings reveal that the choice of treatment targets is heavily influenced by subjective decisions in the analytical process, emphasizing a need for standardization to improve clinical implementation of ESM-based insights.
Objectives: To introduce a novel software-library called Actigraphy Manager (ACTman) which automates labor-intensive actigraphy data preprocessing and analyses steps while improving transparency, reproducibility, and scalability over software suites traditionally used in actigraphy research practice.
Design: Descriptive.
Methods: Use cases are described for performing a common actigraphy task in ACTman and alternative actigraphy software.