Progress in Ambulatory Assessment
Computer-Assisted Psychological and Psychophysiological Methods
in Monitoring and Field Studies
Jochen Fahrenberg, Freiburg, Germany
Michael Myrtek, Freiburg, Germany (Eds.)
Ambulatory assessment – the acquisition of psychological and/or physiological data in
a natural setting – is a field in which, as this book’s title indicates, rapid progress
is being made. Indeed, ambulatory assessment is entering a period of transition: IT
and online techniques are being developed and refined, and ever more researchers and
clinicians from various fields are coming to realize the usefulness of data collected
in real-time, under real-life conditions.
With contributors from North America and Europe, this book explores in detail the
use of computer-assisted methods in both research and applied settings. Innovative
techniques and approaches are described, which go far beyond the simple use of portable
computers for data collection: online analysis and feedback, real-time processing,
electronic diaries, ambulatory psychological tests and physiological measurements,
event-contingent applications, and much more.
In addition to describing new techniques, the book also describes concrete
applications (and presents some innovative results) of a variety of methods in
real-life occupational and clinical settings. Examples include patients with chronic
pain, borderline personality disorder, high blood pressure, asthma, diabetes or
hot flashes in the clinical area; and aviation, air traffic control, occupational
stress and heart rate or blood pressure in the occupational area.
The most recent innovations and applications in the field of ambulatory assessment,
a rapidly advancing field concerned with computer-assisted psychological and
physiological monitoring in natural, real-life settings.
2001 / 640 pages / hardcover / ISBN 0-88937-225-X
US $49.95 / CAN $74.95 / £ 32.45 / DM 98.00 / Sfr 84.00 / € 49.95 / ÖS 715.00
Table of Contents
Preface Part I: Psychological Assessment Chapter 1: Computer-assisted Ambulatory Performance Tests in Everyday Situations: Construction, Evaluation, and Psychometric Properties of a Test Battery Measuring Mental ActivationLothar Buse and Kurt Pawlik
Chapter 2: Simultaneous Computer Assisted Assessment of Causal Attribution and Social Coping in Families
Meinrad Perrez, Peter Wilhelm, Dominik Schoebi, and Monique Horner
Chapter 3: Psychological Monitoring in Sociodiagnostics
Urs Baumann, Ludwig Feichtinger, and Claudia Thiele
Chapter 4: Electronic Momentary Assessment: Real-World, Real-Time Measurement of Patient Experience
Michael R. Hufford, Saul Shiffman, Jean Paty, and Arthur A. Stone
Chapter 5: Psychological Assessment in Everyday Life by Hand-Held PC: Applications of MONITOR
Jochen Fahrenberg, Paul Hüttner, and Rainer Leonhart
Chapter 6: Does the Retrospection Effect Hold as a Stable Phenomenon? First Results from a Transcultural Self-Monitoring Study of Mood in Brazil and Germany
Christoph Käppler and Stephan Rieder
Chapter 7:Ambulatory Monitoring of Diurnal Changes in Pain in Chronic Pain Disorder, Migraine and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Guido Godaert, Marjolijn Sorbi, Madelon Peters, Caroline Dekkers, and Rinie Geenen
Chapter 8: Development and User’s Acceptance of the General Electronic Psychotherapy Diary
Michael Hinkel and O. Berndt Scholz
Chapter 9: States of Aversive Tension in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Controlled Field Study
Christian Stiglmayr, Tanja Grathwol, and Martin Bohus
Chapter 10: Daily Mood Reports in Hindsight: Results of a Computer-Assisted Time Sampling Study
Petra Hank, Peter Schwenkmezger, and Jens Schumann
Chapter 11: Time Series Analysis of Diary Data
Ralf Ott and O. Berndt Scholz
Chapter 12: A Multi-level Approach to Analyze Ambulatory Assessment Data: An Examination of Family Members’ Emotional States in Daily Life
Peter Wilhelm
Part II: Psychophysiological Assessment Chapter 13: Posture and Motion Analysis by Ambulatory Accelerometry
Johannes B. J. Bussmann, Hendrika J. G. van den Berg-Emons, and Henk J. Stam
Chapter 14: Accelerometry in Clinical Psychophysiology
Joke Tulen, Anita Volkers, Dirk Stronks, Marinel Cavelaars, and Wim Groeneveld
Chapter 15: Assessment of Posture, Motion, and Hand Tremor by Calibrated Accelerometry
Friedrich Foerster
Chapter 16: Ambulatory Monitoring of Blood Pressure in Daily Life: A Tool for Investigating Psychosocial Processes
Andrew Steptoe
Chapter 17: The Assessment of Blood Pressure Variability in Behavior Modification: The Identification of Relevant Situation and Mood Factors
Lutz Mussgay, Frithjof Niegot, and Heinz Rüddel
Chapter 18: Ambulatory 24-hr Monitoring of Brachial and Finger Blood Pressure in Normotensive and Hypertensive Males
Reingard Seibt, André Berndt, Dieter Knöpfel, and Klaus Scheuch
Chapter 19: Respiratory Pathophysiology of Clinical Anxiety States Outside the Laboratory: Assessment of End-tidal pCO2 , Respiratory Pattern Variability, and Transfer Function
Frank H. Wilhelm, Georg W. Alpers, Alicia E. Meuret, and Walton T. Roth
Chapter 20: Effects of Workstress on Ambulatory Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Blood Pressure
Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte, Harrïette Riese, and Eco J. C. de Geus
Chapter 21: Objective Characteristics of Jobs Affect Blood Pressure at Work, after Work and at Night
Renate Rau
Chapter 22: Heart Rate Monitoring in an Academic Test Situation
Hans Zeier, Alexandra Häseli, and Joachim Fischer
Chapter 23: On-line Measurement of Additional Heart Rate. Methodology and Applications
Michael Myrtek and Friedrich Foerster
Chapter 24: Interactive Psychophysiological Monitoring of Emotions in Students‘ Everyday Life. A Replication Study
Michael Myrtek, Denis Zanda, and Eveline Aschenbrenner
Chapter 25: Psychophysiological Inflight Monitoring
Glenn Wilson
Chapter 26: Psychophysiological Monitoring of Air Traffic Controllers: Exploration, Simulation, and Validation
Joachim Vogt and Michael Kastner
Chapter 27: Ecological Ambulatory Assessment in Aviation
Eamonn K. S. Hanson and Jan Barzanski
Chapter 28: Ambulatory Monitoring of Menopausal Hot Flashes
Robert R. Freedman
Chapter 29: Giving Feedback to Asthma Patients. Ambulatory Monitoring in Patient Education
Christian Leopold and Rainer Schandry
Chapter 30: Ambulatory Assessment of Hypoglycemia Unawareness in Type 1 Diabetes
Thomas Kubiak and Norbert Hermanns
Chapter 31: Feasibility of Ambulatory Sleep Diagnosis
Egon Stephan, Dirk Alfer, Ansgar Feist, Leonie Fricke, Markus Mühlensiep, and Rolf Weiss
Chapter 32: Electrodermal Long-Term Monitoring in Everyday Life
Wolfram Boucsein, Florian Schaefer, and Thorsten Sommer
Chapter 33: Some new Developments in Ambulatory Assessment Devices
Egon Stephan, Gerhard Mutz, and Ansgar Feist
Chapter 34: From Ambulatory Assessment to Telemedicine. Conceptual, Technical and Political Aspects of Remote Data Transfer
Christian Leopold
Chapter 35: Origins and Developments of Ambulatory Monitoring and Assessment
Jochen Fahrenberg
Subject Index
List of Contributors
