Associations between smartphone GPS data and changes in psychological health and burden outcomes among family caregivers and patients with advanced cancer: an exploratory longitudinal cohort study
The exploratory study demonstrates the potential predictive utility of using passive smartphone data to detect changes in caregiver and patient psychological distress and burden. A larger study is needed to validate these findings and further explore the clinical application of digital phenotyping in cancer.
Authors
- Kristen Allen-Watts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-9598)
- Sally Engler
- Erin R. Harrell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5355-5232)
- Andrés Azuero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9883-1424)
- Avery C. Bechthold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6542-1346)
- J. Nicholas Dionne‐Odom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6764-0254)
- Frank Puga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3416-6434)
- George Demiris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-5829)
- Marie Bakitas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2913-2053)
- Natashia Bibriescas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7961-1327)
- Arif H. Kamal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5235-9395)
- Christine S Ritchie
- Alexi A Wright
- Kyungmi Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5136-9823)
Institutions
- American Cancer Society (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Duke University (US)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
- National Institute on Aging (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Cancer
- Published
- 2025-04-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-025-14009-y
- Primary Topic
- Family Support in Illness
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Alabama
- Cambia Health Foundation