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In recent years, smart devices have proven their effectiveness in monitoring mental health issues and have played a crucial role in providing therapy. The ability to embed sensors in fabrics opens new horizons for mental healthcare, addressing the gr...

Mental illness, whether it is medically diagnosed or undiagnosed, affects a large proportion of the population. It is one of the causes of extensive disability, and f not properly treated, it can lead to severe emotional, behavioral, and physical hea...

Mental health issues are at the forefront of healthcare challenges facing contemporary human society. These issues are most prevalent among working-age people, impacting negatively on the individual, his/her family, workplace, community, and the econ...

Advancements in digital monitoring solutions collaborate closely with electronic medical records. These fine-grained monitoring capacities can generate and process extensive electronic record data. Such capacities promise to enhance mental health car...

Wearable computing is evolving from a passive data collection paradigm into an active, precision-guided health orchestration system. This survey synthesizes developments across sensing modalities, wireless protocols, computational frameworks, and AI-...

Mental health disorders constitute a significant global challenge, compounded by the limitations of traditional management approaches that rely heavily on subjective self-reports and infrequent professional evaluations. This study presents a groundbr...

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a widely used non-invasive method for capturing brain activity, offering valuable insights into cognitive and emotional states relevant to mental health. With the growing complexity and volume of EEG data, machine lear...

Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled digital interventions are increasingly used to expand access to mental health care. This PRISMA-ScR scoping review maps how AI technologies support mental health care across five phases: pre...

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has gained great popularity with an aim to measure vital signs and gain patient related information in clinics. RPM can be achieved with noninvasive digital technology without hindering a patient’s daily activiti...

Ensuring adequate quality of care to patients with severe mental disorders remains a challenge. The implementation of clinical indicators aimed at assessing the quality of health care pathways delivered is crucial for the improvement of mental health...

Clozapine is the only approved antipsychotic for refractory schizophrenia to date. It can cause a range of serious and fatal adverse effects, including Clozapine-Induced Gastrointestinal Hypomotility (CIGH). While guidance is readily available to hel...

This study examines the psychological wellbeing and mental health of nursing staff and determines workplace factors that affect them. Wellbeing and sustainable workload are important for the quality of work life. A cross-sectional study of employees...

The development of digital instruments for mental health monitoring using biosensor data from wearable devices can enable remote, longitudinal, and objective quantitative benchmarks. To survey developments and trends in this field, we conducted a sys...

Monitoring patient safety in high-risk mental health environments is a challenge for clinical staff. There has been a recent increase in the adoption of contactless sensing solutions for remote patient monitoring. mmWave radar is a technology that ha...

Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) receives growing interest in different psychiatric clinical settings (emergency, inpatient, and outpatient services). Despite its usefulness, TDM remains underemployed in mental health. This is partly due to the need...

The continuous analysis of emotional cues through facial emotion recognition (FER) systems can support mental health evaluation and psychological well-being monitoring systems. Most FER systems face privacy and trust concerns due to their centralized...

Traditionally, mental health specialists monitor their patients’ social behavior by applying subjective self-report questionnaires in face-to-face meetings. Usually, the application of the self-report questionnaire is limited by cognitive biase...

Depression affects millions of people worldwide and remains a significant challenge in mental health care. Despite advances in pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments, there is a critical need for accessible and engaging tools that help indi...

Incidence rates of mental health disorders among adolescents is increasing, indicating a strong need for effective prevention efforts at a population level. The etiology of mental health disorders includes genetic, social, and environmental factors....

The COVID-19 pandemic amplified the elderly’s aging-related dysfunctionalities and vulnerabilities. Research surveys, aimed at evaluating the socio–physical–emotional state of the elderly and obtaining data on their access to medica...

Mental illnesses, such as clinical depression, have taken an unprecedented toll on society and the economy on a global scale. The relationship between stress management and mental health decline is of utmost significance, especially as most avenues o...

Objective: This qualitative study sought to explore patient experiences with technologies used in the Community Health in a Virtual Environment (Co-HIVE) pilot trial. Technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in mental healthcare, and user accept...

Emotion monitoring can play a vital role in investigating mental health disorders that contribute to 14% of global diseases. Currently, the mental healthcare system is struggling to cope with the increasing demand. Robot-assisted mental health monito...

Advancements in psychotropic therapy for pregnant women are pivotal for addressing maternal mental health during the perinatal period. Screening for mood and anxiety symptoms during pregnancy is recommended to enable early intervention. Psychotropic...

Psychotherapy has proven to be effective for a wide range of mental health problems. However, not all patients respond to the treatment as expected (not-on-track patients). Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and measurement-based care (MBC), which cons...

Digital health tracking is a source of valuable insights for public health research and consumer health technology. The brain is the most complex organ, containing information about psychophysical and physiological biomarkers that correlate with heal...

Mobile Global Positioning System (GPS) data offer a promising approach to inferring mental health status through behavioural analysis. Whilst previous research has explored location-based behavioural indicators including location clusters, entropy, a...

Comprehensive healthcare seeks to uphold the right to health by providing patient-centred care in both personal and work environments. However, the unequal distribution of healthcare services significantly restricts access in remote or underserved ar...

Wearable systems for monitoring biological signals have opened the door to personalized healthcare and have advanced a great deal over the past decade with the development of flexible electronics, efficient energy storage, wireless data transmission,...

Depression detection through social media analysis has emerged as a promising approach for early intervention and mental health support. This study evaluates the performance of various machine learning and transformer models in identifying depressive...

Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by disruptions in brain connectivity and cognitive functioning. Continuous monitoring of neural activity is essential, as it allows for the detection of subtle changes in brain connec...

Intermittent monitoring of health risk behaviours at the population level is important for the planning and evaluation of national health promotion intervention programmes. The study aimed to provide trend estimates on the prevalence of various healt...

This paper presents a real-time smart mirror system combining multiple AI modules for multimodal health monitoring. The proposed platform integrates three core components: facial expression analysis, remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), and conversati...

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has opened new frontiers in mental health, particularly in stress detection and management. This review explores the current literature, examining how IoT-enabled we...

Objective: This pilot study assessed the psychological and physical impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on postpartum women that gave birth during the pandemic, and evaluated the feasibility of remote monitoring for maternal mental health. The study also...

Cognitive rumination, a transdiagnostic symptom across mental health disorders, has traditionally been assessed through self-report measures. However, these measures are limited by their temporal nature and subjective bias. The rise in wearable techn...

Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) provides information to practitioners and others providing healthcare support to demonstrate the impact of interventions and for service evaluation [...]

The research described in this article is a continuation of work on a computational model of quality of life (QoL) satisfaction. In the proposed approach, overall life satisfaction is aggregated to personal life satisfaction (PLUS). The model describ...

Public feelings and reactions associated with finance are gaining significant importance as they help individuals, public health, financial and non-financial institutions, and the government understand mental health, the impact of policies, and count...

Recently, there has been an increase in the production of devices to monitor mental health and stress as means for expediting detection, and subsequent management of these conditions. The objective of this review is to identify and critically apprais...

Background/Objectives: Adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D) often experience psychological distress that interferes with their ability to maintain optimal self-care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Diabself-care, a nur...

Mental health is an important aspect of an individual’s overall well-being. Positive mental health is correlated with enhanced cognitive function, emotional regulation, and motivation, which, in turn, foster increased productivity and personal...

Loneliness and lack of social well-being are associated with adverse health outcomes and have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Smartphone communication data have been suggested to help monitor loneliness, but this requires further evidence. We...

To date, PHMR has often relied on male/female stratification, but rarely considers the complex, intersecting social positions of men and women in describing the prevalence of health and disease. Stratification on an Intersectional Gender-Score (IG-Sc...

Work is part of our wellbeing and a key driver of a person’s health. Pilots need to be fit for duty and aware of risks that compromise their health/wellbeing. Recent studies suggest that work-related stress (WRS) impacts on pilot health and wel...

With advances in portable and wearable devices, it should be possible to analyze and interpret the collected biosignals from those devices to tailor a psychological intervention to help patients. This study focuses on detecting anxiety by using a por...

Australia’s mental health system is failing young people. Calls for accountability, strategic long-term policy planning, and regional leadership have been identified as solutions to guide mental health reform. Developing system dynamics models...

Introduction and objective: Increasing mental load and inadequate stress management significantly affect the efficiency, success and safety of the educational/working process in adolescents. The objective of this study is to determine the extent that...

The social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be supported through an Indigenous-led and community empowering approach. Applying systems thinking via participatory approaches is aligned with Aborigin...

It remains unclear whether the time-use composition of 24-h movement behaviours (sleep, sedentary time (ST), physical activity (PA)) and recreational screen use are independently associated with psychosocial health. This study examined the cross-sect...