Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trial
BackgroundDigital technologies, including smartphones, hold great promise for expanding mental health services and improving access to care. Digital phenotyping, which involves the collection of behavioral and physiological data using smartphones, offers a novel way to understand and monitor mental...
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| author | Giulia Rocchi Giulia Rocchi Emanuela Vocaj Simone Moawad Alessandro Antonucci Carlo Grigioni Vincenzo Giuffrida Joy Bordini |
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| description | BackgroundDigital technologies, including smartphones, hold great promise for expanding mental health services and improving access to care. Digital phenotyping, which involves the collection of behavioral and physiological data using smartphones, offers a novel way to understand and monitor mental health. This study examines the feasibility of a psychological well-being program using a telegram-integrated chatbot for digital phenotyping.MethodsA one-month randomized non-clinical trial was conducted with 81 young adults aged 18–35 from Italy and the canton of Ticino, a region in southern Switzerland. Participants were randomized to an experimental group that interacted with a chatbot, or to a control group that received general information on psychological well-being. The chatbot collected real-time data on participants’ well-being such as user-chatbot interactions, responses to exercises, and emotional and behavioral metrics. A clustering algorithm created a user profile and content recommendation system to provide personalized exercises based on users’ responses.ResultsFour distinct clusters of participants emerged, based on factors such as online alerts, social media use, insomnia, attention and energy levels. Participants in the experimental group reported improvements in well-being and found the personalized exercises, recommended by the clustering algorithm useful.ConclusionThe study demonstrates the feasibility of a digital phenotyping-based well-being program using a chatbot. Despite limitations such as a small sample size and short study duration, the findings suggest that digital phenotyping and personalized recommendation systems could improve mental health care. Future research should include larger samples and longer follow-up periods to validate these findings and explore clinical applications. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d82920e55cc24bfab9deda1d7c7f09ee2025-01-06T06:59:47ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782025-01-011510.3389/fpsyg.2024.14792691479269Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trialGiulia Rocchi0Giulia Rocchi1Emanuela Vocaj2Simone Moawad3Alessandro Antonucci4Carlo Grigioni5Vincenzo Giuffrida6Joy Bordini7Department of Dynamic, Clinical Psychology and Health, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, ItalyGoHealhty & Co Sagl, Lugano, SwitzerlandGoHealhty & Co Sagl, Lugano, SwitzerlandGoHealhty & Co Sagl, Lugano, SwitzerlandDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Lugano, SwitzerlandDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Lugano, SwitzerlandDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Lugano, SwitzerlandGoHealhty & Co Sagl, Lugano, SwitzerlandBackgroundDigital technologies, including smartphones, hold great promise for expanding mental health services and improving access to care. Digital phenotyping, which involves the collection of behavioral and physiological data using smartphones, offers a novel way to understand and monitor mental health. This study examines the feasibility of a psychological well-being program using a telegram-integrated chatbot for digital phenotyping.MethodsA one-month randomized non-clinical trial was conducted with 81 young adults aged 18–35 from Italy and the canton of Ticino, a region in southern Switzerland. Participants were randomized to an experimental group that interacted with a chatbot, or to a control group that received general information on psychological well-being. The chatbot collected real-time data on participants’ well-being such as user-chatbot interactions, responses to exercises, and emotional and behavioral metrics. A clustering algorithm created a user profile and content recommendation system to provide personalized exercises based on users’ responses.ResultsFour distinct clusters of participants emerged, based on factors such as online alerts, social media use, insomnia, attention and energy levels. Participants in the experimental group reported improvements in well-being and found the personalized exercises, recommended by the clustering algorithm useful.ConclusionThe study demonstrates the feasibility of a digital phenotyping-based well-being program using a chatbot. Despite limitations such as a small sample size and short study duration, the findings suggest that digital phenotyping and personalized recommendation systems could improve mental health care. Future research should include larger samples and longer follow-up periods to validate these findings and explore clinical applications.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1479269/fullmobile assessmentEMASdigital phenotypingmental healthsmartphoneunsupervised learning |
| spellingShingle | Giulia Rocchi Giulia Rocchi Emanuela Vocaj Simone Moawad Alessandro Antonucci Carlo Grigioni Vincenzo Giuffrida Joy Bordini Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trial Frontiers in Psychology mobile assessment EMAS digital phenotyping mental health smartphone unsupervised learning |
| title | Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trial |
| title_full | Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trial |
| title_fullStr | Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trial |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trial |
| title_short | Optimizing personalized psychological well-being interventions through digital phenotyping: results from a randomized non-clinical trial |
| title_sort | optimizing personalized psychological well being interventions through digital phenotyping results from a randomized non clinical trial |
| topic | mobile assessment EMAS digital phenotyping mental health smartphone unsupervised learning |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1479269/full |
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