Laboratory of Intelligent Distributed Systems (LSDi), Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil.
Laboratory of Intelligent Distributed Systems (LSDi), Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil; Federal Institute of Maranhão, Brazil.
J Biomed Inform. 2020 Jul;107:103454. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103454. Epub 2020 Jun 18.
Traditionally, the process of monitoring and evaluating social behavior related to mental health has based on self-reported information, which is limited by the subjective character of responses and various cognitive biases. Today, however, there is a growing amount of studies that have provided methods to objectively monitor social behavior through ubiquitous devices and have used this information to support mental health services. In this paper, we present a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to identify, analyze and characterize the state of the art about the use of ubiquitous devices to monitor users' social behavior focused on mental health. For this purpose, we performed an exhaustive literature search on the six main digital libraries. A screening process was conducted on 160 peer-reviewed publications by applying suitable selection criteria to define the appropriate studies to the scope of this SLR. Next, 20 selected studies were forwarded to the data extraction phase. From an analysis of the selected studies, we recognized the types of social situations identified, the process of transforming contextual data into social situations, the use of social situation awareness to support mental health monitoring, and the methods used to evaluate proposed solutions. Additionally, we identified the main trends presented by this research area, as well as open questions and perspectives for future research. Results of this SLR showed that social situation-aware ubiquitous systems represent promising assistance tools for patients and mental health professionals. However, studies still present limitations in methodological rigor and restrictions in experiments, and solutions proposed by them have limitations to be overcome.
传统上，监测和评估与心理健康相关的社会行为的过程是基于自我报告的信息，而这些信息受到反应的主观性和各种认知偏差的限制。然而，如今越来越多的研究已经提供了通过无处不在的设备客观监测社会行为的方法，并利用这些信息来支持心理健康服务。在本文中，我们进行了系统的文献回顾（SLR），以识别、分析和描述使用无处不在的设备来监测用户的社会行为，重点是心理健康的现状。为此，我们在六个主要的数字图书馆中进行了全面的文献搜索。通过应用适当的选择标准，对 160 篇同行评议的出版物进行了筛选过程，以确定适合本 SLR 范围的适当研究。然后，将 20 项选定的研究推进到数据提取阶段。从对选定研究的分析中，我们确定了所识别的社会情况类型、将上下文数据转换为社会情况的过程、利用社会情况意识来支持心理健康监测的方法，以及用于评估所提出解决方案的方法。此外，我们还确定了该研究领域呈现的主要趋势，以及未来研究的开放性问题和观点。本次 SLR 的结果表明，具有社会情境意识的普遍存在系统代表了患者和心理健康专业人员的有前途的辅助工具。然而，研究仍然在方法严谨性和实验限制方面存在局限性，并且它们提出的解决方案还有待克服的局限性。
