Digital phenotyping: towards replicable findings with comprehensive assessments and integrative models in bipolar disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital phenotyping promises to unobtrusively obtaining a continuous and objective input of symptomatology from patients' daily lives. The prime example are bipolar disorders, as smartphone parameters directly reflect bipolar symptomatology. Empirical studies, however, have yielded inconsistent findings. We believe that three main shortcomings have to be addressed to fully leverage the potential of digital phenotyping: short assessment periods, rare outcome assessments, and an extreme fragmentation of parameters without an integrative analytical strategy.

Methods

To demonstrate how to overcome these shortcomings, we conducted frequent (biweekly) dimensional and categorical expert ratings and daily self-ratings over an extensive assessment period (12 months) in 29

SUBMITTER: Ebner-Priemer UW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677415 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature