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Experience of Using a Smartphone Mood Relapse Warning Application among Patients with Bipolar Disorders: A Qualitative Inquiry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

E.C.-L. Lin  and
M.-S. Chiou
E.C.-L. Lin*
Affiliation:
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Department Of Nursing, Tainan City, Taiwan
M.-S. Chiou
Affiliation:
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Department Of Nursing, Tainan, Taiwan
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Although several studies preliminary supported the effects of using smartphone mental health application (app) in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), patients’ subjective experience deserves more attention.

Objectives

The present study aimed to explore how the BD patient experienced while using the APP in detecting their mood relapse warning signs (MRW app) which has been developed by our team (Su et al., 2021).

Methods

The MRW app collects 2 passive (location and GPS removal distance) and 6 self-reported data (daily mood, wake and sleep time, the brief record of mood and life, voice pitch, speech tone and rhythm, facial expression, and weekly emotional scale). By using qualitative research design, 15 patients recruited from the psychiatric outpatient department in a medical center were in-depth interviewed.

Results

Four themes were identified as their subjective experience to use the app as: including positive and negative experience, facilitators, price, and barriers. Interconnected relationship was found in each theme; and counterbalancing associations between positive vs. negative experience, facilitators vs. price and barriers were also demonstrated.

Conclusions

Such first-person experience of using the app in illness detection could unveil technological myths and present its impacts upon patients’ lives in the real world. Implication for practice and future studies were be discussed.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

Smartphonebipolar disorderRelapse WarningQualitative study
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S570
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