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Passive Sensing of Prediction of Moment-To-Moment Depressed Mood among Undergraduates with Clinical Levels of Depression Sample Using Smartphones

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Jacobson, Nicholas C., Chung, Yeon Joo·2020·Sensors

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Prior research has recently shown that passively collected sensor data collected within the contexts of persons daily lives via smartphones and wearable sensors can distinguish those with major depressive disorder (MDD) from controls, predict MDD severity, and predict changes in MDD severity across days and weeks. Nevertheless, very little research has examined predicting depressed mood within a day, which is essential given the large amount of variation occurring within days. The current study utilized passively collected sensor data collected from a smartphone application to future depressed mood from hour-to-hour in an ecological momentary assessment study in a sample reporting clinical levels of depression (N = 31). Using a combination of nomothetic and idiographically-weighted machine learning models, the results suggest that depressed mood can be accurately predicted from hour to hour with an average correlation between out of sample predicted depressed mood levels and observed depressed mood of 0.587, CI [0.552, 0.621]. This suggests that passively collected smartphone data can accurately predict future depressed mood among a sample reporting clinical levels of depression. If replicated in other samples, this modeling framework may allow just-in-time adaptive interventions to treat depression as it changes in the context of daily life.

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  • Multimodal and intensive sampling data streams might be particularly promising inputs for machine learning models because these models can often handle many correlated predictors.

    “Multimodal and intensive sampling data streams (for example, experience sampling and passive measures gathered through smartphones and other electronic devices) used in some MBI studies133 and mental health research broadly134,135 might be particularly promising inputs for machine learning models, given that these models can often handle many correlated predictors136.”
  • Passive sensor data can be used to predict various symptoms of mental disorders or mental health problems.

    “This type of research has established that passive sensor data can be used to predict various symptoms of mental disorders or mental health problems (23, 33–38), as well as their future development [e.g., (39)].”
  • The inherent clinical heterogeneity associated with mental disorders may necessitate a greater focus on inter-individual differences to ensure generalisability to unseen cases.

    “However, it has been recognised that the inherent clinical heterogeneity associated with mental disorders may necessitate a greater focus on inter-individual differences to ensure generalisability to unseen cases (39, 43, 44).”
  • Only two studies have combined physiological and smartphone data streams in models to monitor changing depressive symptoms.

    “only two studies have combined these data streams in models to monitor changing depressive symptoms (26, 27).”
  • Prior investigations have primarily focused on detecting presence or absence of depression rather than on assessing its severity, and they have shown overall low accuracy.

    “This has resulted in possible reliability problems, since these investigations have primarily focused on detecting presence or absence of depression rather than on assessing its severity, and they have shown overall low accuracy (14–18, 23–27).”

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Authors
Jacobson, N. C., & Chung, Y. J.
Affiliations
Dartmouth College (US)
Corresponding author
Jacobson, Nicholas C.
Venue
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2020-06-24
Volume
20
Issue
12
Pages
3572
ISSN
1424-8220 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3037651932
Cited by
139
References
69
Citations by year
2026: 23 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 3
FWCI
15.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Sensors (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
National Institute on Drug Abuse (P30DA029926)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
Keywords
passive sensing, major depressive disorder, smartphone sensor data, ecological momentary assessment, just-in-time adaptive interventions
MeSH terms
Smartphone, Affect, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Humans, Students

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