A Mobile Sensing App to Monitor Youth Mental Health: Observational Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Internalizing disorders are the most common psychiatric problems observed among youth in Canada. Sadly, youth with internalizing disorders often avoid seeking clinical help and rarely receive adequate treatment. Current methods of assessing internalizing disorders usually rely on subjective symptom ratings, but internalizing symptoms are frequently underreported, which creates a barrier to the accurate assessment of these symptoms in youth. Therefore, novel assessment tools that use objective data need to be developed to meet the highest standards of reliability, feasibility, scalability, and affordability. Mobile sensing technologies, which unobtrusively record aspects of youth behaviors in their daily lives with the potential to make inferences about their mental healt

SUBMITTER: MacLeod L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8579216 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature