Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide
Digital phenotyping refers to the collection of real-time biometric and personal data on digital tools, mainly smartphones, and wearables, to measure behaviors and variables that can be used as a proxy for complex psychophysiological conditions. Digital phenotyping might be used for diagnosis, clini...
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| author | Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli Dario Monzani Lorenzo Conti Giulia Ferraris Roberto Grasso Gabriella Pravettoni Gabriella Pravettoni |
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| description | Digital phenotyping refers to the collection of real-time biometric and personal data on digital tools, mainly smartphones, and wearables, to measure behaviors and variables that can be used as a proxy for complex psychophysiological conditions. Digital phenotyping might be used for diagnosis, clinical assessment, predicting changes and trajectories in psychological clinical conditions, and delivering tailored interventions according to individual real-time data. Recent works pointed out the possibility of using such an approach in the field of suicide risk in high-suicide-risk patients. Among the possible targets of such interventions, adolescence might be a population of interest, since they display higher odds of committing suicide and impulsive behaviors. The present work systematizes the available evidence of the data that might be used for digital phenotyping in the field of adolescent suicide and provides insight into possible personalized approaches for monitoring and treating suicidal risk or predicting risk trajectories. Specifically, the authors first define the field of digital phenotyping and its features, secondly, they organize the available literature to gather all the digital indexes (active and passive data) that can provide reliable information on the increase in the suicidal odds, lastly, they discuss the challenges and future directions of such an approach, together with its ethical implications. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5817f5c19a9947119300cb6ff0554c172023-06-27T10:20:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-06-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11037031103703Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicideSilvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli0Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli1Dario Monzani2Lorenzo Conti3Giulia Ferraris4Roberto Grasso5Gabriella Pravettoni6Gabriella Pravettoni7Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, Palermo, ItalyApplied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, ItalyApplied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyDepartment of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, ItalyApplied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, ItalyDigital phenotyping refers to the collection of real-time biometric and personal data on digital tools, mainly smartphones, and wearables, to measure behaviors and variables that can be used as a proxy for complex psychophysiological conditions. Digital phenotyping might be used for diagnosis, clinical assessment, predicting changes and trajectories in psychological clinical conditions, and delivering tailored interventions according to individual real-time data. Recent works pointed out the possibility of using such an approach in the field of suicide risk in high-suicide-risk patients. Among the possible targets of such interventions, adolescence might be a population of interest, since they display higher odds of committing suicide and impulsive behaviors. The present work systematizes the available evidence of the data that might be used for digital phenotyping in the field of adolescent suicide and provides insight into possible personalized approaches for monitoring and treating suicidal risk or predicting risk trajectories. Specifically, the authors first define the field of digital phenotyping and its features, secondly, they organize the available literature to gather all the digital indexes (active and passive data) that can provide reliable information on the increase in the suicidal odds, lastly, they discuss the challenges and future directions of such an approach, together with its ethical implications.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103703/fulldigital phenotypingecological momentary assessmentnew technologiessuicide riskadolescenceyouth |
| spellingShingle | Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli Dario Monzani Lorenzo Conti Giulia Ferraris Roberto Grasso Gabriella Pravettoni Gabriella Pravettoni Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide Frontiers in Psychology digital phenotyping ecological momentary assessment new technologies suicide risk adolescence youth |
| title | Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide |
| title_full | Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide |
| title_fullStr | Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide |
| title_full_unstemmed | Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide |
| title_short | Issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping: ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide |
| title_sort | issues and opportunities of digital phenotyping ecological momentary assessment and behavioral sensing in protecting the young from suicide |
| topic | digital phenotyping ecological momentary assessment new technologies suicide risk adolescence youth |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103703/full |
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