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How Private Is Mental Health? Two Case Studies - Samaritans Radar versus Help4Mood
1. How Private Is
Mental Health?
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Maria Wolters!
University of Edinburgh!
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maria.wolters@ed.ac.uk!
@mariawolters!
School of Informatics (College of Science and Engineering)!
School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
2. About Mental Health …
http://www.optipess.com/2012/09/28/dressing-up/
“A third of workers would not tell their managers !
if they experienced mental health problems.”!
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Dewa, C. S. (2014). Worker Attitudes towards Mental Health Problems and Disclosure. The International Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine, 5(4), 175–86.
3. Have Applications, Want to Work on Solutions
Hacks that Work, or!
Security versus Convenience
When the Public is Private
5. Help4Mood: Supporting People with Depression
Funder: European Union FP7, STREP
3 clinical sites, 2 companies, 5
universities!
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daily monitoring !
• of activity using actigraph,!
• of mood, thought patterns &
psychomotor using talking
head GUI!
weekly one-page reports to
clinicians
6. The Help4Mood Development Cycle
1. Actigraphy
2. Mood Tracker +!
Actigraphy
3. Mood Tracker,!
Thought Patterns,!
Speech + Actigraphy
4. Mood Tracker,!
Thought Patterns,!
Behavioural Activation,!
Relaxation,!
Speech + Actigraphy
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Case Studies!
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Pilot RCT!
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People with !
history of depression!
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People with !
current depression!
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7. Who Uses The Data? Who Generates?
❖ “What is the value in the data?”!
❖ “This report is just for you, isn’t it?”!
❖ “Don’t make me monitor the monitors.”!
❖ “I’m OK with wearing this watch for research, but …”!
❖ “Why does it say it can’t read the actigraph data?”!
❖ “I want to use the system when I need it.”: A monitoring
strategy became a coping strategy
8. Locking Down is Hard to Do
❖ Separate mobile phone / laptop vs. getting data such as
call history, speech (scrambled), movement from user’s
own mobile!
❖ Data encryption and severely restricting internet use!
❖ NHS requirements (within vs outwith health services) !
❖ Providing access to clinicians:!
❖ Infrastructure for secure transmission!
❖ One more password versus pushing to email
10. Personal Text Data for Personal Use
How not to do it: The Samaritans’ Radar. !
Worried about a friend who is on Twitter? !
Sign up and we will alert you when your friend sounds
like they need a hug or a cup of tea. !
Don’t want your friends to be alerted? Set your timeline to
private.
11. Pros …
❖ Your public Twitter data is free
for anyone to analyse!
❖ Followers are friends!
❖ If counsellors think you’re
suicidal, they would tell
someone, too!
❖ There are terms that can tell
you whether somebody is
suicidal!
❖ False positives are better than
false negatives
12. … and Cons
❖ Your public Twitter data is free
for anyone to analyse!
❖ Followers are friends!
❖ If counsellors think you’re
suicidal, they would tell
someone, too!
❖ There are terms that can tell
you whether somebody is
suicidal!
❖ False positives are better than
false negatives
❖ Twitter has many uses,
personal and professional!
❖ People on Twitter with mental
health problems have their own
strategies!
❖ Mental health is private;
problems carry stigma!
❖ Too many false positives lead to
alert fatigue !
❖ Potential for targeted
harassment
13. Overall,
❖ Your public Twitter data is free
for anyone to analyse!
❖ Followers are friends!
BAD IDEA
❖ If counsellors think you’re
suicidal, they would tell
someone, too!
❖ There are terms that can tell
you whether somebody is
suicidal!
❖ False positives are better than
false negatives
❖ Twitter has many uses,
personal and professional!
❖ People on Twitter with mental
health problems have their own
strategies!
❖ Mental health is private;
problems carry stigma!
❖ Too many false positives lead to
alert fatigue !
❖ Potential for targeted
harassment
14. A Different Approach
Processing personal text (blogs, tweets, Facebook)!
and visualising the results!
to allow insight into how mental health affects!
thinking, writing, and posting patterns!
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People can share insights with others if they wish
15. Contact Details
❖ Privacy and security in eHealth (applications)!
❖ maria.wolters@ed.ac.uk; @mariawolters