Tecnologias vestíveis como ferramentas em atenção psicossocial de estudantes universitários
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2024-09-24Autor
Souza, Victória Maria da Silva e
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The mental health of college students has become a growing target of interest and investigation
among researchers in the field of Health, as studies have pointed to a high prevalence of
psychological distress in this population. In addition, wearable technologies have emerged as a tool
with great potential in the field of mental health. Hence the need to know not only the risks offered
by the use of technologies such as wearable technologies but, above all, to understand the potential
that these virtual spaces offer, so that these technologies can increasingly be converted into aid tools
in mental health prevention and promotion interventions. Objective: To understand how the use of
smartwatches can contribute to the Psychosocial Care follow-up of university students. The present
study will constitute a quali-quantitative research. For this, it proposes to analyze the possible
relations between the physiological signals: number of steps and quality of sleep, collected by
smartwatches, and the responses of the PHQ-9 scale. The data from this research were inconclusive
regarding the relationship between the physiological data collected and depression in university
students. This was mainly due to two reasons: methodological difficulties and the high number of
outliers found.
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