🗓️ Optional EOIs due: 29 Sept 2025
📝 Full papers due: 19 Dec 2025
🔗 All the info: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

#SpecialIssue #DigitalHealth #JITAI #EMA #Wearables #BehaviouralScience 🧪📈

We want your best work using:
📱 EMA
⌚ Sensor/wearable data
📦 JITAI
🧠 Real-time self-report
⏱️ Any creative take on temporally dense data in behavioural health!

I'm guest editing a special issue in @frontiersin.bsky.social #DigitalHealth on Intensive Longitudinal Data for Behavioural and Digital Health Innovation with the awesome Dr Jason Fanning & Dr Vincent Berardi💡

Grateful to my stellar supervisors Max J. Western, @benainsworth.bsky.social, @oliviamaynard.bsky.social & proud of my fellow doctors @loisplayer.bsky.social, Ryan Hughes, Joris Šimaitis, Howard Richards, Lucy Waldren and Olivia Malkowski ❤️🎉

Congratulations to Jess Harvey for leading the effort & co-authors Emma Solomon-Moore, Max J. Western, Olivia Malkowski et al. @uniofbath.bsky.social for being great collaborators! 🎉

(🧵 5/5)

🔬 Research Recs:

📅 Longitudinal studies throughout full cycles
📱 Real-time symptom tracking (EMA)
📏 Objective PA measures (as with all PA research!)
🎙️ Qualitative work centering girls’ voices
🧪 High-quality RCTs of PA for period-related symptoms

(🧵 4/5)

🛠️ Policy & Practice Recommendations

We recommend:
✔️ Menstrual health education in schools
✔️ Free & accessible period products
✔️ Supportive, stigma-free activity spaces for girls

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📊 Key Findings:
Menstruation is a barrier to activity for many girls—due to pain, stigma, & lack of resources. But PA can also ease symptoms. A complex, 2-way relationship. ↔️

(🧵 2/5)

Likewise, Jeroen. It's amazing to see your team & projects doing so well! 👏

You’re a star!! So proud of you and so grateful to have been part of the journey ❤️🥹

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Thank you, Laura! Hope all is well with your many impressive projects too 🤗

Thank you Aliya!! Hope all is well at your end too 🤗