Detecting Mental Health Behaviors Using Mobile Interactions: Exploratory Study Focusing on Binge Eating.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Binge eating is a subjective loss of control while eating, which leads to the consumption of large amounts of food. It can cause significant emotional distress and is often accompanied by purging behaviors (eg, meal skipping, overexercising, or vomiting).

Objective

The aim of this study was to explore the potential of mobile sensing to detect indicators of binge-eating episodes, with a view toward informing the design of future context-aware mobile interventions.

Methods

This study was conducted in 2 stages. The first involved the development of the DeMMI (Detecting Mental health behaviors using Mobile Interactions) app. As part of this, we conducted a consultation session to explore whether the types of sensor data we were proposing to capture were useful

SUBMITTER: Vega J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9086876 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature