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Using a daily diary for monitoring intrusive memories of trauma: A translational data synthesis study exploring convergent validity

OBJECTIVE: Intrusive memories are a core feature of posttraumatic stress disorder and have transdiagnostic relevance across mental disorders. Establishing flexible methods to monitor intrusions, including patterns and characteristics, is a key challenge. A daily diary has been developed in experimen...

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Autores principales: Singh, Laura, Ahmed Pihlgren, Sara, Holmes, Emily A., Moulds, Michelle L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9976599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35976618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1936
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author Singh, Laura
Ahmed Pihlgren, Sara
Holmes, Emily A.
Moulds, Michelle L.
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Holmes, Emily A.
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description OBJECTIVE: Intrusive memories are a core feature of posttraumatic stress disorder and have transdiagnostic relevance across mental disorders. Establishing flexible methods to monitor intrusions, including patterns and characteristics, is a key challenge. A daily diary has been developed in experimental settings to provide symptom count data, without the need for retrospective self‐report over extended time periods (e.g., 1 week, 1 month). We conducted an exploratory, pre‐registered data synthesis investigating convergence between the diary and questionnaire measures of intrusive symptoms long used in clinical practice (Impact of Event Scale, IES, and revised version, IES‐R, Intrusion subscale). RESULTS: Utilising datasets using the daily diary from 11 studies (4 real‐world trauma studies, seven analogue trauma studies; total N = 578), we found significant positive associations between the diary and IES/IES‐R Intrusion subscale. Exploratory analyses indicated that the magnitude of this association was stronger for the IES (vs. the IES‐R), and in individuals with real‐world (vs. analogue) trauma. CONCLUSION: This study provides first evidence of convergent validity of a daily diary for monitoring intrusions with a widely used questionnaire. A diary may be a more flexible methodology to obtain information about intrusions (frequency, characteristics, triggers, content), relative to questionnaires which rely on retrospective reporting of symptoms over extended timeframes. We discuss potential benefits of daily monitoring of intrusions in clinical and research contexts.
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spelling pubmed-99765992023-03-02 Using a daily diary for monitoring intrusive memories of trauma: A translational data synthesis study exploring convergent validity Singh, Laura Ahmed Pihlgren, Sara Holmes, Emily A. Moulds, Michelle L. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res Original Articles OBJECTIVE: Intrusive memories are a core feature of posttraumatic stress disorder and have transdiagnostic relevance across mental disorders. Establishing flexible methods to monitor intrusions, including patterns and characteristics, is a key challenge. A daily diary has been developed in experimental settings to provide symptom count data, without the need for retrospective self‐report over extended time periods (e.g., 1 week, 1 month). We conducted an exploratory, pre‐registered data synthesis investigating convergence between the diary and questionnaire measures of intrusive symptoms long used in clinical practice (Impact of Event Scale, IES, and revised version, IES‐R, Intrusion subscale). RESULTS: Utilising datasets using the daily diary from 11 studies (4 real‐world trauma studies, seven analogue trauma studies; total N = 578), we found significant positive associations between the diary and IES/IES‐R Intrusion subscale. Exploratory analyses indicated that the magnitude of this association was stronger for the IES (vs. the IES‐R), and in individuals with real‐world (vs. analogue) trauma. CONCLUSION: This study provides first evidence of convergent validity of a daily diary for monitoring intrusions with a widely used questionnaire. A diary may be a more flexible methodology to obtain information about intrusions (frequency, characteristics, triggers, content), relative to questionnaires which rely on retrospective reporting of symptoms over extended timeframes. We discuss potential benefits of daily monitoring of intrusions in clinical and research contexts. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9976599/ /pubmed/35976618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1936 Text en © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Using a daily diary for monitoring intrusive memories of trauma: A translational data synthesis study exploring convergent validity
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title_short Using a daily diary for monitoring intrusive memories of trauma: A translational data synthesis study exploring convergent validity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9976599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35976618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1936
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