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Expanding options for developing outcome measures from momentary assessment dataArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Putnam Hall, South Campus, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Psychosom Med 74:387-97. 2012..In addition to the mean of momentary reports of symptoms, other types of summaries can reflect different aspects of the symptom experience...
A population approach to the study of emotion: diurnal rhythms of a working day examined with the Day Reconstruction MethodArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, NY 11794 8790, USA
Emotion 6:139-49. 2006..A V-shaped pattern was found for tired and an inverted U-shaped pattern for competent. Several diurnal patterns from prior studies were replicated. The DRM appears to be a useful tool for the study of emotions...- Understanding recall of weekly pain from a momentary assessment perspective: absolute agreement, between- and within-person consistency, and judged change in weekly painArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Putnam Hall, South Campus, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Pain 107:61-9. 2004..Given the importance of within-person change for treatment studies, these results indicate a serious nonequivalence in weekly recall and averaged momentary reports of pain... - Real-time data collection for pain: appraisal and current statusArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8790, USA
Pain Med 8:S85-93. 2007..We plan to discuss the use of RTDC in the assessment of pain, including issues pertaining to its rationale, sampling protocols, and our opinion on the current status of the methodology... - Intensive momentary reporting of pain with an electronic diary: reactivity, compliance, and patient satisfactionArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Putnam Hall, South Campus, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Pain 104:343-51. 2003..Compliance with the electronic diary protocol was 94% or better, and was not related to sampling density. Patients reported little difficulty with the diary procedures and were not unduly burdened by the protocol... 
Context effects in survey ratings of health, symptoms, and satisfactionArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11994 8790, USA
Med Care 46:662-7. 2008..Prior studies have shown, however, that such reports can be subject to context effects, which could threaten their validity...- A snapshot of the age distribution of psychological well-being in the United StatesArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9985-90. 2010..Global and Hedonic WB measures appear to index different aspects of WB over the lifespan, and the postmidlife increase in WB, especially in Hedonic WB, deserves continued exploration... - Single momentary assessments are not reliable outcomes for clinical trialsArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 31:466-72. 2010..We discuss alternative measurement strategies for efficiently collecting PRO data for a 1-week period using end-of-day diaries or 7-day recall measures... - Patient non-compliance with paper diariesArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8790, USA
BMJ 324:1193-4. 2002 - Individual differences in the diurnal cycle of salivary free cortisol: a replication of flattened cycles for some individualsA A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 26:295-306. 2001..These results suggest that some people do not have the expected diurnal rhythm of cortisol secretion. It is not clear what the determinants of this finding are or if there are any health consequences of having a flat cycle... - Validity of average, minimum, and maximum end-of-day recall assessments of pain and fatigueArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 31:483-90. 2010..There was little evidence of individual differences in level and correspondence analyses. The implication of these results is that over-the-day diary measures may yield superior PROs than those based on minimum or maximum daily levels... - Variability of momentary pain predicts recall of weekly pain: a consequence of the peak (or salience) memory heuristicArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, NY 11794 8790, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:1340-6. 2005..The hypothesis was confirmed and it was concluded that variability of real-time pain affects the recall of pain... - Does trait coping exist? A momentary assessment approach to the evaluation of traitsJ E Schwartz
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794 8790, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 77:360-9. 1999..Self-report assessments of trait coping are poor measures of the trait component of momentary coping and very poor predictors of coping in specific situations... - Emotional expression and physical health: revising traumatic memories or fostering self-regulation?M A Greenberg
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 71:588-602. 1996..Imaginary-trauma group effects could reflect catharsis, emotional regulation, or construction of resilient possible selves... - Structured writing about stressful events: exploring potential psychological mediators of positive health effectsA A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794 8790, USA
Health Psychol 19:619-24. 2000..Smyth, A. Stone, et al. study. No evidence was found supporting mediation, and the mechanism underlying structured writing about stressful events remains unknown... - Measuring clinical pain in chronic widespread pain: selected methodological issuesMichael Gendreau
Cypress Bioscience, Inc, 4350 Executive Drive, Suite 325, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol 17:575-92. 2003..It is concluded that methodological factors can greatly affect our understanding of patients' pain experiences... - Signaling does not adequately improve diary complianceJoan E Broderick
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Ann Behav Med 26:139-48. 2003..Compliance with a paper diary protocol would be improved by using auditory signaling. Background: Prior research has demonstrated that compliance with the reporting schedule in paper diary protocols is poor... - Patient compliance with paper and electronic diariesArthur A Stone
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, NY 11794, USA
Control Clin Trials 24:182-99. 2003..The findings call into question the use of paper diaries and suggest that electronic diaries with compliance-enhancing features are a more effective way of collecting diary information... - Feasibility and utility of an electronic diary to assess self-report symptoms in patients with inflammatory bowel diseaseLeighann Litcher-Kelly
Applied Behavioral Medicine Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, NY 11794 8790, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:207-12. 2007..The self-report literature has demonstrated these deviations can distort the information collected by introducing recall bias, especially for subjective measures like pain and well-being... - A systematic review of measures used to assess chronic musculoskeletal pain in clinical and randomized controlled clinical trialsLeighann Litcher-Kelly
Applied Behavioral Medicine Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8790, USA
J Pain 8:906-13. 2007..Although there are many pain outcome measures available to clinical researchers, more consistency in the field should be encouraged so that results between studies can be compared... - The feasibility and effectiveness of an expressive writing intervention for rheumatoid arthritis via home-based videotaped instructionsJoan E Broderick
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Ann Behav Med 27:50-9. 2004..Expressive emotional writing has demonstrated efficacy for improving health status in a wide variety of healthy persons and recently in patients with chronic disease... - Paper and electronic diaries: Too early for conclusions on compliance rates and their effects--Comment on Green, Rafaeli, Bolger, Shrout, and Reis (2006)Joan E Broderick
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, USA
Psychol Methods 11:106-11; discussion 123-5. 2006..The authors conclude that compliance in paper diaries and the effects of noncompliance on data quality are still unsettled issues... - Recalled pain ratings: a complex and poorly defined taskJoan E Broderick
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8790, USA
J Pain 7:142-9. 2006..They point to the potential importance of clearly specifying what qualities of pain are sought and how the patient should summarize them over the reporting period... - Perceived work overload and chronic worrying predict weekend-weekday differences in the cortisol awakening responseWolff Schlotz
University of Trier, Department of Psychobiology, Trier, Germany
Psychosom Med 66:207-14. 2004..This study tests whether cortisol awakening responses are different on weekdays compared with weekend days and whether such differences may be explained by chronic work overload and worrying... - Associations among pain intensity, sensory characteristics, affective qualities, and activity limitations in patients with chronic pain: a momentary, within-person perspectiveLeighann Litcher-Kelly
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
J Pain 5:433-9. 2004..This article confirms that pain intensity is significantly related to sensory characteristics of pain, affective qualities of pain, and activity limitations due to pain within a person... - Physiologic markers of chronic stress in premenopausal, middle-aged womenLynda H Powell
Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush Presbyterian St Luke s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Psychosom Med 64:502-9. 2002..The purpose of this study was to identify physiological markers of chronic stress in middle-aged women that can be assessed simply and are thus feasible for introduction into large-scale, epidemiologic studies of aging... - Ecological momentary assessmentSaul Shiffman
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 4:1-32. 2008..EMA holds unique promise to advance the science and practice of clinical psychology by shedding light on the dynamics of behavior in real-world settings... - Assessment of pain: a community-based diary survey in the USAAlan B Krueger
Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Lancet 371:1519-25. 2008..Pain is costly and a major reason for seeking medical care. Our aim was to assess the proportion of people experiencing pain, and the severity of pain, at randomly selected times in a representative sample of individuals in the USA... - Standardizing patient-reported outcomes assessment in cancer clinical trials: a patient-reported outcomes measurement information system initiativeSofia F Garcia
Center on Outcomes, Research and Education, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Institute for Healthcare Studies, and Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60201, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:5106-12. 2007..We also present our work in the fatigue domain, including a short-form measure, as a sample of PROMIS methodology and work to date. Plans for future validation and application of PROMIS measures are discussed... - A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: the day reconstruction methodDaniel Kahneman
Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Science 306:1776-80. 2004..An analysis of the hedonic treadmill shows the DRM's potential for well-being research... - Evaluation of item candidates: the PROMIS qualitative item reviewDarren A DeWalt
Division of General Internal Medicine and the Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Med Care 45:S12-21. 2007..Cognitive interviews were used to examine individual items. Items successfully screened through this process were sent to field testing and will be subjected to innovative scale construction procedures... - Would you be happier if you were richer? A focusing illusionDaniel Kahneman
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Science 312:1908-10. 2006..We argue that people exaggerate the contribution of income to happiness because they focus, in part, on conventional achievements when evaluating their life or the lives of others... - Trait anxiety moderates the impact of performance pressure on salivary cortisol in everyday lifeWolff Schlotz
Department of Psychobiology, University of Trier, Johanniterufer 15, 54290 Trier, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:459-72. 2006..Subjects scoring high on trait anxiety seem to process stress-relevant information in a way that amplifies the association of performance pressure with reactions of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis...
Research Grants
- UTILITY OF MOMENTARY VERSUS RECALLED SELF REPORTSArthur Stone; Fiscal Year: 2004..Finally, the study will provide practical information for researchers using momentary assessment methods. ..
- Ecological validity in patient-reported chronic disease outcomes(RMI)Arthur Stone; Fiscal Year: 2007....