According to a study published on the Journal of Medical Internet Research, your phone can soon sense when you’re feeling depressed.
An article on TechCrunch speaks of this study, which involved studying the behavioural habits of the sample of people via a sensor data acquisition application installed on their phones, which tracked the amount of time spent on the phone and the places the person visited, among other things.
Before the study, the subjects had to undergo an online assessment consisting of a demographics questionnaire and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, commonly used measure of self-reported depressive symptom severity. After this, the app was installed on the phones and the study carried out.
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