TY - GEN
T1 - A telemedicine application for remote diagnosis and assessment of mood disorders
AU - Konstantopoulou, Georgia
AU - Panagiotakopoulos, Theodor
AU - Mandellos, George J.
AU - Asimakopoulos, Konstantinos
AU - Lymberopoulos, Dimitrios K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Depression in its various forms is a widespread phenomenon in modern societies. Its high prevalence, associated costs, the chronic nature it develops and the challenges in diagnosing it put a lot of pressure on public healthcare systems. In response to these challenges, ICT-based approaches are increasingly implemented to support effective patient management and discovery. This paper presents a web application named “feeldistress”, which is based on a novel distress evaluation framework to enable remote diagnosis of anxiety and depression, facilitate continuous evaluation of patients and assist prevention of suicide. The developed application was used and evaluated from a qualitative perspective by 117 students (47% women) who had visited the Special Office for Health Consulting Services of the University of Patras between 2014 and 2017. The majority of the users were very satisfied by the functionality, usability and appearance of the application showing it can be extremely useful tool for someone before hitting the door of a mental health specialist.
AB - Depression in its various forms is a widespread phenomenon in modern societies. Its high prevalence, associated costs, the chronic nature it develops and the challenges in diagnosing it put a lot of pressure on public healthcare systems. In response to these challenges, ICT-based approaches are increasingly implemented to support effective patient management and discovery. This paper presents a web application named “feeldistress”, which is based on a novel distress evaluation framework to enable remote diagnosis of anxiety and depression, facilitate continuous evaluation of patients and assist prevention of suicide. The developed application was used and evaluated from a qualitative perspective by 117 students (47% women) who had visited the Special Office for Health Consulting Services of the University of Patras between 2014 and 2017. The majority of the users were very satisfied by the functionality, usability and appearance of the application showing it can be extremely useful tool for someone before hitting the door of a mental health specialist.
KW - Mood disorders
KW - Remote diagnosis
KW - Telemedicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059755010&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-05195-2_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-05195-2_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85059755010
SN - 9783030051945
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 115
EP - 124
BT - Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems - 9th International EAI Conference, Broadnets 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Althunibat, Saud
A2 - Sucasas, Victor
A2 - Mantas, Georgios
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 9th International EAI Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2018
Y2 - 19 September 2018 through 20 September 2018
ER -
