Using Smartphones to Monitor Bipolar Disorder Symptoms: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relapse prevention in bipolar disorder can be improved by monitoring symptoms in patients' daily life. Smartphone apps are easy-to-use, low-cost tools that can be used to assess this information. To date, few studies have examined the usefulness of smartphone data for monitoring symptoms in bipolar disorder.

Objective

We present results from a pilot test of a smartphone-based monitoring system, Social Information Monitoring for Patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder (SIMBA), that tracked daily mood, physical activity, and social communication in 13 patients. The objective of this study was to investigate whether smartphone measurements predicted clinical symptoms levels and clinical symptom change. The hypotheses that smartphone measurements are (1) negatively r

SUBMITTER: Beiwinkel T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4720836 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature