The Analysis of Physical Physiological and Behavioral Data Collected From Sensors That Track the Mental Condition of Psychiatric Patients Who Are at Risk for Relapse and Who do Not Abide With Their Medication Treatment

An observational study that uses a digital system to collect physiological, physical and behavioral data using worn sensors on psychiatric patients suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar and schizoaffective disorders. It is a known fact that patients suffering from these disorders are more prone to changes in their mental health condition. Sometimes this change is due to change in medical treatment(whether it was the doctor's decision or low adherence to medication treatment).The mental health condition influences physiological, physical and behavioral aspects which could be detected through the personal digital algorithm and could prevent psychiatric deterioration. For example, in a case of a person in a manic episode investigators would expect to find changes in the personal digital algorithm in physiological aspects(increased heart rate, elevated Heart Rate Variability), physical aspects such as increased number of steps per day, and behavioral aspects(increased hours spent outside of home, excessive activity). An early detection can help in the prevention of psychiatric deterioration in this case and help minimize the suffering caused to the patient and caregivers and perhaps assist in minimizing the need for hospitalization.

The data will be collected using wrist watches. The sensors will collect the physiological data(Heart Rate Variability), physical data(number of steps per day) and the behavioral data(quality of sleep). This data will then be collected and analyzed through big data analysis.