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ArticleProceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction2019

Provider Perspectives on Integrating Sensor-Captured Patient-Generated Data in Mental Health Care.

Ada Ng, Rachel Kornfield, Stephen M Schueller, Alyson K Zalta, Michael Brennan, Madhu Reddy

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Article in Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Beyond Detection: Towards Actionable Sensing Research in Clinical Mental Healthcare.Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous technologies · 2024
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  9. Approaches to Tailoring Between-Session Mental Health Therapy Activities.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference · 2024
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  14. Investigating the Role of Context in the Delivery of Text Messages for Supporting Psychological Wellbeing.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference · 2023
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  17. Meeting Users Where They Are: User-centered Design of an Automated Text Messaging Tool to Support the Mental Health of Young Adults.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference · 2022
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  19. "Energy is a Finite Resource": Designing Technology to Support Individuals across Fluctuating Symptoms of Depression.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ada NgNorthwestern University, USA.
Rachel KornfieldNorthwestern University, USA.
Stephen M SchuellerUniversity of California, Irvine, USA.
Alyson K ZaltaUniversity of California, Irvine; Rush University Medical Center, USA.
Michael BrennanRush University Medical Center, USA.
Madhu ReddyNorthwestern University, USA.
Northwestern University · USRush University Medical Center · USUniversity of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS)UL1TR001422 · NCATS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI D'AQUILA, RICHARD · 2015 to 2023
$56.8M
Technology Enabled Services for Coordinated Care of Depression in Healthcare SettingsP50MH119029 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI DAVID CURTIS MOHR · 2020 to 2026
$10.7M
Multidisciplinary Training Program in Digital Mental HealthT32MH115882 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Darren Gergle, DAVID CURTIS MOHR · 2018 to 2026
$2.4M
Using CBT to Probe Psychobiobehavioral Resilience to Post-trauma PsychopathologyK23MH103394 · NIMH · RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI ZALTA, ALYSON KAY · 2014 to 2018
$769k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001422NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH103394NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH119029NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH115882
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing ubiquity of health sensing technology holds promise to enable patients and health care providers to make more informed decisions based on continuously-captured data. The use of sensor-captured patient-generated data (sPGD) has been gaining greater prominence in the assessment of physical health, but we have little understanding of the role that sPGD can play in mental health. To better understand the use of sPGD in mental health, we interviewed care providers in an intensive treatment program (ITP) for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. In this program, patients were given Fitbits for their own voluntary use. Providers identified a number of potential benefits from patients' Fitbit use, such as patient empowerment and opportunities to reinforce therapeutic progress through collaborative data review and interpretation. However, despite the promise of sensor data as offering an "objective" view into patients' health behavior and symptoms, the relationships between sPGD and therapeutic progress are often ambiguous. Given substantial subjectivity involved in interpreting data from commercial wearables in the context of mental health treatment, providers emphasized potential risks to their patients and were uncertain how to adjust their practice to effectively guide collaborative use of the FitBit and its sPGD. We discuss the implications of these findings for designing systems to leverage sPGD in mental health care.

Indexed as

Applied Computing~Consumer healthApplied Computing~Health care information systemsHuman-centered computing~Empirical studies in HCImental healthpatient-generated datapost-traumatic stress disordersensorswearables

Identifiers

PMID33585802
PMCPMC7877802
OpenAlexW2989170389

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