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. 2022 Aug 2;8:e1042. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1042

Table 4. Summary of behavioral health outcomes from sensors, wearable, and remote monitoring intervention studies.

P- Participants/Study length, CA- Clinical assessment, H/w-Hardware, S/w-Software.

Study Period Population Method/Outcomes CA H/w, S/w Sensor
Ponzo et al. (2020) 262/4 weeks College students BioBase application was used for 4 weeks to reduce anxiety and promote well-being. STAI, PHQ, WEMWBS SP (iOS), Wristband (BioBeam), Biobase app Accelerometer, actigraph
Doryab et al. (2019) 160/4 weeks college students To detect the loniesss, keep an eye on social and sleeping habits. With an accuracy of 80.2%, it can detect loneliness and changes in loneliness levels, and with an accuracy of 88.4%, it can detect changes in loneliness levels. UCLA SP, Wristband, AWARE app (freeware data collection app) Accelerometer, actigraph, Bluetooth, phone usage, GPS, microphone, SMS usage
Sano et al. (2018) 201//4 weeks college students Critical items detected using wearable sensors like temperature, barometer such as routine behavior, socializing for stress, depression with 78.3% accuracy for segregating stress level among students. ASRM, IBS SP, wristband (Afectiva), Motion Logger (AMI), Funf open-sensing framework Accelorometer, actigraph, temperature sensor, GPS, light sensor, phone usage
Demasi, Aguilera & Recht (2016) 44/8 weeks Healthy adults Change over and abnormality in sleep, length of sleep are used to predict emotional wellbeing. BDI, PHQ-9 SP (Android), Funf opensending framework Accelorometer, actigraph, Bluetooth
Gaggioli et al. (2014) 121/5 weeks Healthy adults Participants reported a signifcant increase in the emotional support skill COPE-NIV, PHQ, SWLS SP (iPhone), Wireless cardiovascular belt, body worn wireless sensor Accelorometer, Bluetooth, Camera, ECG, electrodermal sensor
Knight & Bidargaddi (2018) 120/8 months open When comparing self-reported data from activity tracker applications to wearables for psychological anguish/moderate level of psychological distress, wearable devices had considerably longer daily activity duration than smartphone apps. DASS-21 SP Accelorometer, actigraph
Szydlo & Konieczny (2016) 25/2 weeks Outpatient The smartwatch recognises 75% of archetypal ASD motions after six sessions of use with an electronic photographic activity programme. None identifed SP (Android), Smart- watch Accelorometer, actigraph
Garcia-Ceja et al. (2018) 30/6 weeks Healthy adults Stress detection and prediction using accelerometer data with 95% accuracy None identifed SP, Wireless Sensor Data Mining (WISDM), chest sensor, wrist sensor Accelerometer, actigraph, Bluetooth, microphone, Wi-Fi
Huang et al. (2016) 16/10 days Students Examine the relationship between university students’ visits to religious sites and their social anxiety. SIAS SP Accelerometer, GPS
Wang et al. (2016) 21/9-36 Weeks Outpatient Use random forest regression to correlate smartphone data with schizophrenia symptoms/Significant association between ground truth and anticipated mental health status scores EMA (measuring sleep, calm, depression, hope, cognition, thoughts of harm, psychotic symptoms) SP (Android), CrossCheck app, Funf open sensing framework, MobileEMA System Accelerometer, app usage, GPS, light sensor, microphone, phone usage, SMS usage