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Using Wearable Tech for Emotional Health Monitoring & Preventing Relapse

Name: Using Wearable Tech for Emotional Health Monitoring & Preventing Relapse
Uploaded: 2024-10-11T01:17:57+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Antonio Matta
Description: In this presentation, the speaker outlines how consumer wearables—smartphones, smartwatches, and dedicated biometric devices—can be leveraged to monitor…

11 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this presentation, the speaker outlines how consumer wearables—smartphones, smartwatches, and dedicated biometric devices—can be leveraged to monitor physiological signals such as heart‑rate variability, sleep patterns, stress levels, and movement patterns linked to substance use or gambling. These data streams can act as early warning indicators of emotional or physical distress, providing a proactive means to identify precursors to lapses or relapses. The speaker also notes that affordable fitness trackers can monitor physical activity, which is associated with improved mental health, allowing users to align wearable data with personal recovery goals.

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from our smartphones and watches to other wearables that measure things like heart rate variability, or monitor abstinence, particularly substance use or gambling. There are sensors that can detect certain movements related to our drug use. There's other biometric data that we can gather that bases any physiological parameters like, again, our heart rate, we've mentioned sleep patterns, stress levels. So any of those changes that might indicate there's some sort of emotional or physical distress. This can really serve as sort of early warning signs for things like relapse or something that might be a precursor to what we know might turn into a lapse or relapse. And also, again, depending on what our goals are, we can track our activity. Like wearable fitness trackers are extremely popular and they're becoming more and more affordable. These can monitor physical activity, which we know is associated with improved mental health.