Digital Measurement of Mental Health: Challenges, Promises, and Future Directions

摘要

Accurate and reliable measures of mental health and functioning are critical for patient care and clinical research. Current gold-standards for measurement of disease severity and treatment response are based on interviewer-led assessments or patient self-report questionnaires, typically grounded in nosology defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health, fifth edition.~(1 ) However, such “traditional” clinical assessments of psychiatric health present both practical and clinical challenges.