Tecnologias vestíveis como ferramentas em atenção psicossocial de estudantes universitários

Abstract

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.