People usually tell their clinician about their mood symptoms through retrospective reports, which means they try to recollect the experiences they had over the previous weeks. This study collects brief daily diaries of people's mood. We aim to show these brief daily diaries are more detailed and accurate than retrospective report methods.
Participants are being asked to do the Daily Diary task via the web based app every day for the 1 month duration of the study. They are encouraged to perform the Daily Diary task seated in a private room with minimal distractions.
Please send an email to bpresearch@med.umich.edu or give us a call at (877) 864-3637 mentioning the Web-Based Diaries of Psychiatric Symptoms – Depression study.
For your participation, the maximum you can potentially earn in this study is $310 by completing the following:
All payments will be made in gift card form and will be obtained through the Human Subject Incentive Program (HSIP) at the University of Michigan.
If something went wrong (someone walked in, app froze, or you accidentally hit the stop button), just make a new recording right away. At the start of the new recording say something like: "I am re‑doing my diary for today. Please ignore the earlier one."
We will use the clearer replacement recording. You do not need to email us unless the problem keeps happening.
After a successful recording, a "Daily session complete!" popup will appear. To make another recording:
Either method will allow you to record again immediately.
Unfortunately no. The app starts a new session at midnight Eastern each day. Once the date rolls over, you can only complete today's session.
Just continue with today's survey and recording. Please do not try to "make up" a missed day inside today's entry - keep each day focused on that day only.