. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Behav Med. 2019 Jan 1;42(3):545–560. doi: 10.1007/s10865-018-00008-x

Table 1.

Basic EMA study design and sample characteristics

Study	ESCAPE	SAWM	SHADE	WDL	NTHS
Sample characteristics
N	241	172	128	122	300
Age
Range	25–65	20–80	18–80	19–64	21–70
M	46.8	49.5	44.2	41.2	42.4
SD	10.9	16.9	14.2	11.6	12.8
Sample type	Community	Community	Patients	Community	Community
Sampling	Probability	Convenience	Clinic referral	Convenience	Convenience
EMA design
Duration	14 days	7 days	7 days	3 days	2 days
Beeps/day	5	5	5	6	Every 45 min^a
Avg. beeps/person	57.9	31.7	26.1	17.3	27.2
Stress measures
Stressor	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Subjective				✔	✔
Conditional	✔	✔	✔		✔

NTHS North Texas Heart Study, WDL Work and Daily Life, SHADE Stress, Health, and Daily Experiences, SAWM Stress and Working Memory, ESCAPE Effects of Stress on Cognitive Aging, Physiology, and Emotion

Each participants has different beeps/day due to differing study start times and sleep cycles; EMAs were prompted every 45 min