The use of mood 24/7 in the treatment of major depressive episodes in the outpatient setting

Health Informatics & Technology Conference

October 20-22, 2014 Double Tree by Hilton Baltimore - BWI Airport, USA

Caroline Franke, Alison M Riehm, Kristen A Rahn and Adam I Kaplin

Posters: J Health Med Informat

Abstract :

Psychiatrists usually monitor their patients? moods retrospectively at office visits and/or through patients? handwritten diaries, and yet handwritten diaries have compliance rates of 11%. Mood 24/7 was developed to improve the accuracy and compliancy of tracking a patient?s mood by using SMS texts and web-based technology. Patients using Mood 24/7 receive a daily text message to their cellular phone to which the patient can text back their mood on a 1-10 scale. Adherence studies have shown compliancy to increase almost 8-fold with Mood 24/7 compared to handwritten diaries. The present study aimed to measure the accuracy and validity of Mood 24/7 in tracking mood using an outpatient cohort at the Johns Hopkins Hospital who were undergoing standard of care treatment for mood disorders. Retrospective analyses were used to measure the relationship between a patient?s Mood 24/7 data, the blinded psychiatrist?s clinical assessment of that patient?s mood, and the patient?s standardized depression assessment score on the revised Hopkins Symptom Checklist (SCL-90R). Mood 24/7 patient daily ratings correlated significantly with their psychiatrist?s assessments and their SCL-90 scores (n=15; r=0.8215, P=0.003 and r=-0.5733, P=0.0203, respectively). A cohort of the patients was tracked over multiple days and outpatient visits, for which a significant positive correlation was found between the Mood 24/7 data and the clinician assessments (n=9, r= 0.83, p<0.0001). The findings of this study support Mood 24/7?s reliability and validity for tracking mood in an outpatient psychiatric setting.