A new study suggests that how you use your smartphone could shed light on whether you might suffer from depression.
The small study — involving just 20 women and eight men, averaging 29 years of age — looked at data from the people’s phones to track the number of minutes they used their phone, as well as their locations throughout the day.
The researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago tracked two weeks’ of phone use and GPS data from the 28 participants’ smartphones.
The more time a person spent on his or her phone, the more likely they were to be depressed, according to the team led by clinical psychologist David Mohr, who directs the university’s Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies.
For example, average daily smartphone use by those with depression was 68 minutes, compared with only 17 minutes by those without depression, his team found. Read full story on Philly.
Based on this article Seems like I see a lot of depressed people around town
The sample size is really too small to take anything away from this survey.
This is probably the dumbest thing I ever heard. Shame on tls for even publishing this stupidity.
I must be….. What comes after depression?