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The precise relationship between substance use and symptoms in patients with psychotic disorders has eluded researchers and clinicians, who have relied primarily on patients' retrospective accounts, which are inevitably limited by biased and faulty recollection. These investigators used “ecological momentary assessment,” an emerging research technique, in which individuals transmit information via PDAs and smartphones in response to intermittent prompts (like “tweets”) about specific behaviors and experiences.
The researchers invited 199 community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were participating in a cognitive-behavioral therapy study to join this additional 7-day study, and 145 provided ongoing ambulat…