{"id":217975,"date":"2025-07-15T21:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/smartphone-sensors-reveal-mental-health-patterns-through-daily-behavior-tracking"},"modified":"2025-07-15T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:08:42","slug":"smartphone-sensors-reveal-mental-health-patterns-through-daily-behavior-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/smartphone-sensors-reveal-mental-health-patterns-through-daily-behavior-tracking","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone sensors reveal mental health patterns through daily behavior tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smartphone-sensors-reveal-mental-health-patterns-through-daily-behavior-tracking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smartphones can help people stay healthy by monitoring their sleep, steps and heart rate, but they also can help reveal issues tied to mental health, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2836015\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>JAMA Network Open<\/i>, researchers from the University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and University of Pittsburgh used smartphone sensors as silent observers of daily life. These <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/digital+footprints\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">digital footprints<\/a> tracked simple actions, such as how much we move, sleep or check our phones but also provided surprising insights into how our psychological well-being manifests in everyday routines.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that many different mental disorders share similar behavior patterns, like staying home more, sleeping late and not charging phones often. Such behaviors may show someone\u2019s level of something called the \u201cp-factor,\u201d which links many <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mental+health\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mental health<\/a> issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones can help people stay healthy by monitoring their sleep, steps and heart rate, but they also can help reveal issues tied to mental health, new research shows. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and University of Pittsburgh used smartphone sensors as silent observers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}