A Primer on Sampling Rates of Ambulatory Assessments

Seizer L, Schiepek G, Cornélissen-Guillaume G, Löchner J (2024)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2024

Journal

Psychological Methods American Psychological Association

Abstract

The use of ambulatory assessments (AAs) as an approach to gather self-reported questionnaires or selfcollected biochemical data is constantly increasing to investigate the experiences, states, and behaviors of individuals and their interaction with external situational factors during everyday life. It is often implicitly assumed that data from different sampling protocols can be used interchangeably, despite them assessing processes over different timescales in different intervals and at different occasions, which depending on the variables under study may result in fundamentally different dynamics. There are multiple temporal parameters to consider and while there is an abundance of sampling protocols that are applied regularly, to date, there is only limited empirical background on the influence different approaches may have on the data and findings. In this review, we aim to give an overview of commonly used types of AA in psychology, psychiatry, and biobehavioral research with a breakdown by temporal design parameters. Additionally, we discuss potential advantages and pitfalls associated with the various approaches.

Authors with CRIS profile

Lennart Seizer

Involved external institutions

Universitätsklinikum Tübingen

Germany (DE) Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität

Austria (AT) University of Minnesota (UMN)

United States (USA) (US) Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Seizer, L., Schiepek, G., Cornélissen-Guillaume, G., & Löchner, J. (2024). A Primer on Sampling Rates of Ambulatory Assessments. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000656

MLA:

Seizer, Lennart, et al. "A Primer on Sampling Rates of Ambulatory Assessments." Psychological Methods (2024).

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