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Mobile Phones Used To Battle Youth Depression
(AUS) Mobile phones are to be used in a 400 person study to determine how youth depression starts and develops. The researchers hope to use the results to create a mobile phone program to act as an early warning system for at-risk young people.
Capitalising on teenagers' favourite accessory, Dr Sophie Reid from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has worked with Harvard Medical School to design software that will monitor a young person's mood and assess how they respond to stress. Initially, the program will be used in research to understand the development of youth depression; then, as a clinical tool to assist individual patients.
'Mobile phones will allow us to take brief, repeated assessments of how adolescents experience stress, and what they do when they're feeling down. It will give us a unique insight into the beginnings of depression,' says Dr Reid. 'A phone survey is much more attractive to young people than questionnaires or daily diaries.'
The research is a joint initiative of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The University of Melbourne, and industry partners, Object Consulting, and Harvard Medical School. The initial phase of this research is supported by Beyond Blue.
Filed by DK on April 29 2005
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