Mobile Behavioral Sensing for Outpatients and Inpatients With Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and utility of behavioral sensing among individuals with schizophrenia.

Methods

Nine outpatients and 11 inpatients carried smartphones for two- or one-week periods, respectively. Device-embedded sensors (accelerometers, microphone, global positioning system, WiFi, and Bluetooth) collected behavioral data and ascertained the patients' location, activity, and exposure to human speech as they went about their day. Participants rated this approach by completing usability and acceptability measures.

Results

Sensing successfully captured individuals' activity, time spent proximal to human speech, and time spent in various locations. Participants felt comfortable using the sensing system (95%), and most were inter

SUBMITTER: Ben-Zeev D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4918904 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature