Mood Monitoring, Mood Tracking, and Ambulatory Assessment Interventions in Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Overall mood monitoring interventions do not increase or decrease mood symptoms in people with BD, nor is there robust evidence of such effects in people with unipolar depression. Further research is merited on different forms of mood monitoring and to determine under what circumstances mood monitoring might have beneficial or adverse effects. These results initially suggest that ambulatory assessment does not induce large placebo effects or significantly negatively or positively affect mood, and thus that mood monitoring may be an appropriate outcome measure for research or for clinical practice.
Authors
- Madiha Majid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4954-7798)
- James Stone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3051-0135)
- Richard Morriss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-4121)
- Laurence Astill Wright (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8324-1229)
- Boliang Guo
- Daljit Purewal
- Georgina Shajan
Institutions
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (GB)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Institute of Mental Health (GB)
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (GB)
- NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative (GB)
- Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- NIHR Research Delivery Network (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Mental Health
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/84020
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 33.12