Using Wearable Digital Devices to Screen Children for Mental Health Conditions: Ethical Promises and Challenges
Aisling O’Leary,
Timothy Lahey,
Juniper Lovato
et al.
Abstract:In response to a burgeoning pediatric mental health epidemic, recent guidelines have instructed pediatricians to regularly screen their patients for mental health disorders with consistency and standardization. Yet, gold-standard screening surveys to evaluate mental health problems in children typically rely solely on reports given by caregivers, who tend to unintentionally under-report, and in some cases over-report, child symptomology. Digital phenotype screening tools (DPSTs), currently being developed in r… Show more
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