A wearable device tracking sleep, stress and activity could help Australians living with serious mental health issues, Paramatta-based researchers say.
"My mental health started getting really bad five years ago," the 19-year-old said."I had to drop out [of university] because I was really sick."The Australian trial Unwired aims to lower hospitalisations and suicides in people with mental illnessThey grapple with five mental health issues; Gender dysphoria, anorexia nervosa, borderline personality disorder, generalised anxiety disorder and chronic depression.
The trial, conducted by the Prevention, Early Recovery and Intervention Service , is based in Parramatta.It involved fifty people using an Embrace2 wearable wrist device over six months to measure their stress, activity and sleep data. "You don't get to be seen by this team unless you've tried to kill yourself, cut yourself a lot, or had an illness like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia," Professor Harris said.
It also maps breakthroughs during therapy sessions, as the data revealed emotional sessions led to periods of stability thereafter."We were able to sort of identify when my stress would peak, like if I was at work during the day, or if I was just at home and I had an argument with my parents. "We could see, for a couple of days, this young woman's sleep just completely disintegrated," he said.Mr Harris believes the findings from the ongoing trial could be applied to help prevent relapses when they're most likely.
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