Intensive Longitudinal Social Sensing in Patients With Psychosis Spectrum Disorders: An Exploratory Pilot Study
Moritz von Heyden, Paul Grube, Markus Sack, Johannes Wiesner, Oliver Frank, Kathrin Becker, Stefan Heintz, Iris Reinhard, Sarah Hohmann, Dusan Hirjak, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Urs Braun · 2025
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Description
Moritz von Heyden and a large team of co-authors published this pilot study in 2024 on social life in psychosis. Poor social functioning is central to psychosis spectrum disorders and to recovery, yet daily social behavior is hard to measure objectively. The team gave radio badges to seven patients and eighteen staff members on a Soteria-style psychiatric ward. The badges logged every nearby encounter automatically for eleven weeks.
They recorded nearly eighteen thousand interactions. Patients spent about 2.6 hours a day in contact with others. More daily interaction time, longer average encounters, and a tighter local social network all went with lower symptom scores on a standard scale. Patients' own estimates of their social time matched neither the badge data nor their symptoms. The authors say passive sensing can capture real social life at fine grain, opening a route to treatments tuned to each patient's social pattern.
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| CREATOR | Moritz von Heyden, Paul Grube, Markus Sack, Johannes Wiesner, Oliver Frank, Kathrin Becker, Stefan Heintz, Iris Reinhard, Sarah Hohmann, Dusan Hirjak, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Urs Braun |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |