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. 2012 Sep 3;13:157. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-157

Table 1.

Wellbeing therapy protocol for conventional format (outpatients based tools) and for real-time personalized mobile technologies (Mobile Technology Tool)

Phases Focus Objectives Outpatient-based tool Mobile technology tool
Initial phase
Identifying and setting episodes of wellbeing into situational context
Report the circumstances surrounding the episodes of wellbeing rated on a scale of 0 to 100, with zero being absence of wellbeing and 100 being the most intense wellbeing
Diary
Mobile diary, personalized by the baseline assessment results and by an adaptive learning algorithm depending on patient’s answers during mobile monitoring
 
 
 
 
Visual analogical scale for wellbeing
 
 
 
 
Assessment
 
 
Monitor the quality of experience associated with daily situations (work, leisure, and so on)
 
 
 
 
Identification of instances of wellbeing and of optimal experiences
 
 
Intermediatephase
Remove the obstacles to sustained psychological wellbeing on self-monitoring of moments and feelings of wellbeing and graded task assignments
Identify thoughts and beliefs
Graded task assignments of undertaking particular pleasurable activities for a certain time each day
Electronic personalized task assignment by the baseline assessment results and by an adaptive learning algorithm depending on patient’s answers during mobile monitoring
 
 
Leading to premature interruption of wellbeing
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual analogical scale for wellbeing
 
 
 
 
Assessment
 
 
Identify the areas of psychological wellbeing which are unaffected by irrational or automatic thoughts and which are saturated with them
 
 
 
 
Reinforce and encourage activities that are likely to elicit wellbeing and optimal experiences
 
 
Final phase
Be able to readily identify moments of wellbeing
Dimensions of psychological wellbeing are progressively introduced
Graded task assignments of undertaking particular pleasurable activities for a certain time each day
Mobile diary, personalized by the baseline assessment results and by an adaptive learning algorithm depending on patient’s answers during mobile monitoring
 
Be aware of interruptions to wellbeing feelings (cognitions)
 
 
 
 
 
Guide the patient from an impaired level to an optimal level according to the above six dimensions
 
Electronic personalized task assignment by the baseline assessment results and by an adaptive learning algorithm depending on patient’s answers during mobile monitoring
 
Follow optimal experiences
 
 
 
 
Meeting the challenge that may entail optimal experiences is emphasized
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visual analogical scale for wellbeing
        Assessment