Personalizing Mental Health: A Feasibility Study of a Mobile Behavioral Activation Tool for Depressed Patients
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Behavioral Activation (BA) psychotherapy for depression typically applies paper-based activity planning and registration. This is cumbersome, subject to recall bias, and provides limited support for personalized reflection on individual activity patterns. This paper presents MORIBUS; a smartphone tool for BA to be used in therapy. It provides a simple way of planning and registering activities, and their immediate emotional impact. Through visual analytic tools, the patient gains personalized insight into own behavior. We examined the feasibility of MORIBUS in a 4-week study including seven patients diagnosed with depression. The study revealed individual differences in BA patterns. We discuss the implications of these findings and argue for the necessity of automatic but still personalized technology.
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- Authors
- Rohani, D. A., Tuxen, N., Lopategui, A. Q., Faurholt-Jepsen, M., Kessing, L. V., & Bardram, J. E.
- Affiliations
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
- Copenhagen Affective Disorder, Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-05-20
- Pages
- 282-291
- ISSN
- 2153-1633 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2953459655
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 12.29
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- orbit.dtu.dk
- Locations
- International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (publishedVersion)
- Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Innovationsfonden
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- behavioral activation, depression, planning, visual analytics, feasibility
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