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Deriving symptom networks from digital phenotyping data in serious mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Symptoms of serious mental illness are multidimensional and often interact in complex ways. Generative models offer value in elucidating the underlying relationships that characterise these networks of symptoms.

Aims

In this paper we use generative models to find unique interactions of schizophrenia symptoms as experienced on a moment-by-moment basis.

Method

Self-reported mood, anxiety and psychosis symptoms, self-reported measurements of sleep quality and social function, cognitive assessment, and smartphone touch screen data from two assessments modelled after the Trail Making A and B tests were collected with a digital phenotyping app for 47 patients in active treatment for schizophrenia over a 90-day period. Patients were retrospectively divided up into various non-exclusive subgroups based on measurements of depression, anxiety, sleep duration, cognition and psychosis symptoms taken in the clinic. Associated transition probabilities for the patient cohort and for the clinical subgroups were calculated using state transitions between adjacent 3-day timesteps of pairwise survey domains.

Results

The three highest probabilities for associated transitions across all patients were anxiety-inducing mood (0.357, P < 0.001), psychosis-inducing mood (0.276, P < 0.001), and anxiety-inducing poor sleep (0.268, P < 0.001). These transition probabilities were compared against a validation set of 17 patients from a pilot study, and no significant differences were found. Unique symptom networks were found for clinical subgroups.

Conclusions

Using a generative model using digital phenotyping data, we show that certain symptoms of schizophrenia may play a role in elevating other schizophrenia symptoms in future timesteps. Symptom networks show that it is feasible to create clinically interpretable models that reflect the unique symptom interactions of psychosis-spectrum illness. These results offer a framework for researchers capturing temporal dynamics, for clinicians seeking to move towards preventative care, and for patients to better understand their lived experience.

SUBMITTER: Hays R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7745255 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Deriving symptom networks from digital phenotyping data in serious mental illness.

Hays Ryan R Keshavan Matcheri M Wisniewski Hannah H Torous John J

BJPsych open 20201103 6

<h4>Background</h4>Symptoms of serious mental illness are multidimensional and often interact in complex ways. Generative models offer value in elucidating the underlying relationships that characterise these networks of symptoms.<h4>Aims</h4>In this paper we use generative models to find unique interactions of schizophrenia symptoms as experienced on a moment-by-moment basis.<h4>Method</h4>Self-reported mood, anxiety and psychosis symptoms, self-reported measurements of sleep quality and social ...[more]

PMID: 33138889

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Deriving symptom networks from digital phenotyping data in serious mental illness.

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