The use of diary methods to evaluate daily experiences in first-episode psychosis

Katherine G Welch; Bryan J Stiles; Olafur S Palsson; Piper S Meyer-Kalos; Diana O Perkins; Tate F Halverson; David L Penn

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114548

The use of diary methods to evaluate daily experiences in first-episode psychosis

Psychiatry Res. 2022 Jun:312:114548. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114548. Epub 2022 Apr 7.

Authors

Katherine G Welch¹, Bryan J Stiles², Olafur S Palsson³, Piper S Meyer-Kalos⁴, Diana O Perkins⁵, Tate F Halverson⁶, David L Penn²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America. Electronic address: katherine_welch@med.unc.edu.
² Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
³ Department of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
⁶ Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America; VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

Abstract

Integrated Coping Awareness Therapy (I-CAT) is an intervention that targets stress reactivity in first-episode psychosis (FEP). This study extends prior outcome research on I-CAT by examining predictors of online daily diary completion among 38 young adults with FEP and treatment group differences in diary ratings. We found no significant predictors of daily diary completion rate and no effect of treatment condition on diary ratings. These results are consistent with Halverson et al. (2021) and suggest that diaries are a valuable method of data collection in FEP.

Keywords: Daily diary; Schizophrenia; Stress.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adaptation, Psychological
Humans
Psychotic Disorders* / therapy

Abstract

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