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Assessing Depression Severity Through a Passive Digital Mood Marker

2025-12-22 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveEffective management of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is limited by reliance on episodic, subjective clinical scales. Passive digital phenotyping offers a potential solution for continuous, objective monitoring. We aimed to assess the concurrent validity of a novel digital biomarker--the Facial Affect Dynamics-derived Depression Severity (FADS) score--against the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). MethodsWe conducted an interim analysis of the EMC2FR study (NCT06860165), a prosp...

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