Reporting a smartphone study: what STROBE-GEMA asks for and how to structure the methods section
STROBE-GEMA is a reporting checklist for studies that pair momentary self-reports with location data. Its 70 items name the details that mobile-study methods sections most often omit — how prompts were scheduled and delivered, what device and app were used, how many prompts were planned versus received versus answered, and which data are missing and why. This post walks through the checklist in the order a methods section is written, and ends with a template and a pre-submission check.
