Background Mobile phone‐based smoking cessation support (mCessation) offers the
opportunity to provide behavioural support to those who cannot or do not want face‐to‐face …

The economics of happiness, or subjective well being, is an expanding field, with a growing
number of applied papers reporting empirical associations between happiness and other …

This volume addresses the contribution to research methods and, specifically,
phenomenology, known as the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). ESM is a research …

As mobile data capture tools for patient-reported outcomes proliferate in clinical research, a
key dimension of measure performance is sensitivity to change. This study compared …

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has designated the topic of real-time data capture as an
important and innovative research area. As such, the NCI sponsored a national meeting of …

Within the next 8 years, annual US expendi-ture on health care is projected to reach $4
trillion/year, or 20% of the gross domestic product. 1 Whether resource consumption of this …

Neurodevelopmental changes over the lifespan, from childhood through adulthood into old
age, have important implications for the onset, presentation, course, and treatment of anxiety …

Background: The benefits of self-monitoring on symptom severity, coping, and quality of life
have been amply demonstrated. However, paper and pencil self-monitoring can be …

Background The ubiquitous nature of mobile phones and their increasing functionality make
them an ideal medium for the delivery of large-scale public health information and …

Background Automated telephone communication systems (ATCS) can deliver voice
messages and collect health‐related information from patients using either their telephone's …