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      La hora de la evaluación ambulatoria Translated title: The time of ambulatory assessment

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          La evaluación ambulatoria aglutina un conjunto de métodos que permiten evaluar mediante dispositivos móviles, y en múltiples momentos temporales, el comportamiento de las personas en su entorno natural y contexto diario. Permite una evaluación más precisa, dinámica, contextual e ideográfica que los métodos clásicos, abriendo nuevos horizontes con claras implicaciones para el diagnóstico y la intervención psicológica. El objetivo de este trabajo es realizar una introducción a la evaluación ambulatoria. En primer lugar, se realiza una delimitación conceptual y se comentan las cuestiones que viene a solucionar y sus posibles beneficios. En segundo lugar, se exponen aspectos relacionados con la metodología, abordando los diseños, los tipos de datos y un protocolo general de evaluación. En tercer lugar, se comentan algunas de las principales limitaciones, y se exponen las aplicaciones más relevantes. Finalmente, se comentan algunas recomendaciones para la aplicación de este tipo de metodología, y se analizan los retos y perspectivas futuras.

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          Ambulatory assessment brings together a set of methods that make it possible to evaluate, through mobile devices, and at multiple moments in time, the behavior of people in their natural environment and daily context. It allows a more precise, dynamic, contextual, and ideographic evaluation than the classical approaches, opening new horizons with clear implications for psychological intervention. The main goal of this paper is to provide an introduction to ambulatory assessment. First, a conceptual delimitation is made and the issues to be solved are discussed, as well as their possible benefits. Second, aspects related to the methodology are exposed, addressing the designs, data types, and a general evaluation protocol. Third, some of the main limitations are discussed, and the most relevant applications are presented. Finally, some recommendations for the application of this type of methodology are discussed, and some challenges and future perspectives are analyzed.

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              As the COVID-19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies - such as smartphone apps, vir-tual reality, chatbots, and social media - have also gained attention. These digital health technologies offer the potential of accessible and scalable interventions that can augment traditional care. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive update on the overall field of digital psychiatry, covering three areas. First, we outline the relevance of recent technological advances to mental health research and care, by detailing how smartphones, social media, artificial intelligence and virtual reality present new opportunities for "digital phenotyping" and remote intervention. Second, we review the current evidence for the use of these new technological approaches across different mental health contexts, covering their emerging efficacy in self-management of psychological well-being and early intervention, along with more nascent research supporting their use in clinical management of long-term psychiatric conditions - including major depression; anxiety, bipolar and psychotic disorders; and eating and substance use disorders - as well as in child and adolescent mental health care. Third, we discuss the most pressing challenges and opportunities towards real-world implementation, using the Integrated Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (i-PARIHS) framework to explain how the innovations themselves, the recipients of these innovations, and the context surrounding innovations all must be considered to facilitate their adoption and use in mental health care systems. We conclude that the new technological capabilities of smartphones, artificial intelligence, social media and virtual reality are already changing mental health care in unforeseen and exciting ways, each accompanied by an early but promising evidence base. We point out that further efforts towards strengthening implementation are needed, and detail the key issues at the patient, provider and policy levels which must now be addressed for digital health technologies to truly improve mental health research and treatment in the future.
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                Journal
                pappsicol
                Papeles del Psicólogo
                Pap. Psicol.
                Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Psicólogos (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                0214-7823
                1886-1415
                April 2022
                : 43
                : 1
                : 21-28
                Affiliations
                [04] orgnameUniversidad Nebrija España
                [01] La Rioja orgnameUniversidad de La Rioja Spain
                [03] Asturias orgnameUniversidad de Oviedo Spain
                [02] orgnameHospital Virgen del Rocío España
                Article
                S0214-78232022000100004 S0214-7823(22)04300100004
                10.23923/pap.psicol.2983
                42ea944c-a08f-47a0-b951-146c45580279

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 01 November 2021
                : 16 December 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 51, Pages: 8
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                SciELO Spain

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                Modelo contextual,Dispositivos electrónicos,Evaluación ecológica momentánea,Muestreo de experiencias,Evaluación ambulatoria,Electronics devices,Contextual model,Ecological momentary assessment,Experience sampling methodology,Ambulatory assessment

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