Design and Methods of a Prospective Smartphone App-Based Study for Digital Phenotyping of Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Mixed With Centralized and Decentralized Research Form: The Search Your Mind (S.Y.M., 心) Project
- Author:
Ye-Won KANG
1
;
Tai hui SUN
;
Ga-Yeong KIM
;
Ho-Young JUNG
;
Hyun-Jin KIM
;
Seulki LEE
;
Yu Rang PARK
;
Jaiden TU
;
Jae-Hon LEE
;
Kwang-Yeon CHOI
;
Chul-Hyun CHO
Author Information
- Publication Type:Study Protocol
- From:Psychiatry Investigation 2022;19(7):588-594
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: In this study, the Search Your Mind (S.Y.M., 心) project aimed to collect prospective digital phenotypic data centered on mood and anxiety symptoms across psychiatric disorders through a smartphone application (app) platform while using both centralized and decentralized research designs: the centralized research design is a hybrid of a general prospective observational study and a digital platform-based study, and it includes face-to-face research such as informed written consent, clinical evaluation, and blood sampling. It also includes digital phenotypic assessment through an application-based platform using wearable devices. Meanwhile, the decentralized research design is a non-face-to-face study in which anonymous participants agree to electronic informed consent forms on the app. It also exclusively uses an application-based platform to acquire individualized digital phenotypic data. We expect to collect clinical, biological, and digital phenotypic data centered on mood and anxiety symptoms, and we propose a possible model of centralized and decentralized research design.
