94 Chapter 4 5. Conclusion The current study explored the feasibility of daily diary sampling with a mobilephone application for adolescents and adults with a mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning. Diary items were partially tailored to the individual and overviews of diary answers were shared with the participant's care professional throughout the 60-day diary period. Compliance rates were good for people who received ambulatory (88.9%) or residential care (75.6%), but not for individuals who were detained in the juvenile detention center (19.4%). For the participants it was more convenient to answer diaries on their own mobile phone device as opposed to using a group-owned device. Interviews revealed that the majority of participants deemed the daily diary method to be acceptable. Findings from this study should prompt researchers to employ daily diaries for the study of behavior and emotions in adolescents and young adults with a mild intellectual disability, so that they, their practitioners and science as a whole may gain a better understanding about their behavioral processes. Acknowledgments This work was funded by The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw project 555002014). We would also like to thank the participants and their care professionals for taking part in our study.
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