MobiHealth News August 5, 2020
The three-year investigation will use iPhones, Apple Watches and Beddit trackers to monitor sleep, physical activity, heart rate and other daily behaviors.
The University of California, Los Angeles announced yesterday the launch of an Apple-backed study that will use the tech company’s devices to measure how sleep, physical activity and heart rate relate to depression and anxiety.
The three-year effort launches this week. It will recruit 150 UCLA Health patients for its pilot phase, the university wrote in an announcement. Another 3,000 participants will be targeted when the study kicks into full gear between 2021 and 2023.
“Current approaches to treating depression rely almost entirely on the subjective recollections of depression sufferers,” Dr. Nelson Freimer, a professor of psychiatry at...
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