InsightTM mHealth Annual Workshop
The annual 3-day InsightTM Mobile Health Workshop provides training in mHealth study design and the creation and deployment of studies that use smartphone-based ecological momentary assessments (EMA) and just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI). The first half of each day will involve discussion of various mHealth/EMA/JITAI topics and study design considerations. The second half of each day will involve hands-on experience with using the InsightTM platform to build an mHealth research study. By the end of the workshop, you will have an initial working app (that you may or may not use. If you use the app for a study, you will be required to pay relevant InsightTM user fees).
Up to 20 applicants will be accepted to attend the annual workshop. Priority will be given to post-doctoral fellows and faculty at academic institutions that aim to conduct mHealth research.
2024 Workshop Schedule
Particulars of Workshop
Dates of workshop: TBD 2025
Workshop organizer and primary presenter: Michael Businelle, PhD (see bio here). Additional experts may present on relevant topics (e.g., machine learning, cleaning intensive longitudinal datasets).
Workshop location: Oklahoma City; All accepted applicants will attend all 3 days of workshop in person (there is NOT a remote attendance option). Suggested options for hotel accommodations will be shared with all workshop attendees.
Application deadline: Participation in the Insight mHealth workshop is by invitation only. The workshop will be limited to 20 individuals selected from the pool of applicants.
Cost: TBD
Eligibility Requirements
Hold a doctoral level degree (PhD, ScD, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.), in any of the following:
- Behavioral Science
- Social Science
- Medicine
- Public Health
About the InsightTM mHealth Platform: The InsightTM mHealth platform enables researchers to build, test, and launch technology-based assessment and intervention tools. To date, InsightTM has been used to support 94 research studies (47 with NIH funding) in 5 languages, including five studies that have collected data outside the US. These studies have used InsightTM to identify and intervene upon environmental, cognitive, affective, physiological, and behavioral antecedents of health risk factors. InsightTM software is customizable for each research project, uses a web-based content management system (CMS) for easy access across multiple browsers, and uses architecture that enables the incorporation of new features. Users of this service log into our web-based CMS and follow step-by-step guidance to create and manage research studies, enroll and monitor study participants, create questionnaire items, create different types of surveys (e.g., baseline, follow-up, random, daily, participant-initiated, sensor-initiated) and create specific assessment rules (e.g., two vs. four random assessments per day). Data are encrypted within the smartphone application and automatically and securely uploaded into the mHealth server database. Encrypted data can be downloaded from our mHealth servers by approved users at any time. Note that InsightTM works offline (e.g., in Airplane mode) after initial application download.