The Association Between Home Stay and Symptom Severity in Major Depressive Disorder: Preliminary Findings From a Multicenter Observational Study Using Geolocation Data From Smartphones

• Main Authors: Petroula Laiou (Author), Dzmitry A Kaliukhovich (Author), Amos A Folarin (Author), Yatharth Ranjan (Author), Zulqarnain Rashid (Author), Pauline Conde (Author), Callum Stewart (Author), Shaoxiong Sun (Author), Yuezhou Zhang (Author), Faith Matcham (Author), Alina Ivan (Author), Grace Lavelle (Author), Sara Siddi (Author), Femke Lamers (Author), Brenda WJH Penninx (Author), Josep Maria Haro (Author), Peter Annas (Author), Nicholas Cummins (Author), Srinivasan Vairavan (Author), Nikolay V Manyakov (Author), Vaibhav A Narayan (Author), Richard JB Dobson (Author), Matthew Hotopf (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundMost smartphones and wearables are currently equipped with location sensing (using GPS and mobile network information), which enables continuous location tracking of their users. Several studies have reported that various mobility metrics, as well as home stay, that is, the amount of time...