Title
Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices - Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study.
Abstract
Perinatal depression (PND) affects up to 15% of women within the United Kingdom and has a lasting impact on a woman's quality of life, birth outcomes and her child's development. Suicide is the leading cause of maternal mortality. However, it is estimated that at least 50% of PND cases go undiagnosed. This paper presents the results of the first feasibility study to examine the potential of mobile devices to engage women in antenatal mental health screening. Using a mobile application, 254 women attending 14 National Health Service midwifery clinics provided 2,280 momentary and retrospective reports of their wellbeing over a 9-month period. Women spoke positively of the experience, installing and engaging with this technology regardless of age, education, wellbeing, number of children, marital or employment status, or past diagnosis of depression. 39 women reported a risk of depression, self-harm or suicide; two-thirds of whom were not identified by screening in-clinic.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290605.3300416
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
ema, mental health, mobile devices, pregnancy, psychological wellbeing, public health screening, self-report
Family medicine,Quality of life,Computer science,Pregnancy,Self report,Perinatal Depression,Mobile device,National health service,Mental health,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5970-2
2
0.38
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Doherty1378.95
Jose Marcano Belisario241.20
M. Cohn320.72
Nikolaos Mastellos441.82
Cecily Morrison57113.56
Josip Car641.20
Gavin Doherty736142.18