Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Mental Health
Date Submitted: Jan 11, 2018
Open Peer Review Period: Jan 18, 2018 - Jul 26, 2018
Date Accepted: Dec 15, 2018
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Smartphone and wearable sensors-based m-Health approach for psychiatric disorders and symptoms – a systematic review and link to m-RESIST project
ABSTRACT
Background:
m-RESIST (Mobile Therapeutic Attention for Patients with Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia) is an EU H2020 funded project aimed at designing and validating an innovative therapeutic programme for treatment-resistant schizophrenia exploiting information from smartphone and wearable sensors for behavioural tracking to support intervention administration.
Objective:
To systematically review original studies on sensor-based m-Health applications aimed at pointing out associations between sensor data and symptoms of psychiatric disorders to support the m-RESIST approach to assess effectiveness of behavioural monitoring in therapy.
Methods:
A systematic review of the English language literature, according to PRISMA guidelines, was performed through Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases in the time frame between 1st September 2009 and 30th September 2018. Search terms included mental health, mental disorders, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar, insomnia, stress, mobile, smartphone, monitoring, sensor, sensing.
Results:
Only studies reporting quantitative information from the mobile use and/or wearable sensors data collection and associating this information with clinical outcomes were included. Two independent experts evaluated the selected articles. 35 studies were identified, most of them investigating bipolar disorders and depression, depression symptoms, stress and symptoms of stress while only few addressed persons with schizophrenia.
Conclusions:
Data from sensors demonstrate an association with the symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression while usability in clinical settings to support therapeutic intervention is not yet fully assessed and needs to be scrutinized more thoroughly.
Citation
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