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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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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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Figure 1 This figure describes the strategy for cross-validation for group-based nomothetic models. Note that the only the past 24 h periods were utilized to train the next hour, and a separate model was trained for each hour.
Figure 1 This figure describes the strategy for cross-validation for group-based nomothetic models. Note that the only the past 24 h periods were utilized to train the next hour, and a separate model was trained for each hour.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 2 This figure describes the strategy for cross-validation for idiographic models.
Figure 2 This figure describes the strategy for cross-validation for idiographic models.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 3 This plot depicts the percentile of the sensor values for each of the sensors across time for each subject.
Figure 3 This plot depicts the percentile of the sensor values for each of the sensors across time for each subject.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 4 This plot depicts the predicted and observed values for the hourly depressed mood for the entire sample. For plotting, the average of the multiply imputed data points was computed when there was missing data.
Figure 4 This plot depicts the predicted and observed values for the hourly depressed mood for the entire sample. For plotting, the average of the multiply imputed data points was computed when there was missing data.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 5 This figure depicts the hourly depressed mood for each subject. Here the red lines represent observed depressed mood points (and the average of the multiply imputed data points when there was missing data). The blue lines depict the predicted depressed mood based on the idiographically-weighted models.
Figure 5 This figure depicts the hourly depressed mood for each subject. Here the red lines represent observed depressed mood points (and the average of the multiply imputed data points when there was missing data). The blue lines depict the predicted depressed mood based on the idiographically-weighted models.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 6 This model describes the correlation coefficient between the predicted and observed changes in the hourly mood for each participant. The vertical dotted line indicates the average of the correlations coefficient (as correlations do not scale linearly, this was done by computing r-to-Fisher’s Z transformations, taking the average, and then Fisher’s Z-to-r transformations). The dots represent the individual correlations, and the horizontal lines represent the confidence intervals around the correlation coefficient.
Figure 6 This model describes the correlation coefficient between the predicted and observed changes in the hourly mood for each participant. The vertical dotted line indicates the average of the correlations coefficient (as correlations do not scale linearly, this was done by computing r-to-Fisher’s Z transformations, taking the average, and then Fisher’s Z-to-r transformations). The dots represent the individual correlations, and the horizontal lines represent the confidence intervals around the correlation coefficient.CC BY · PubMed Central

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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
Open access
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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
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › 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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