Real-Time Mental Health Monitoring: The Indian Scenario

Real-Time Mental Health Monitoring: The Indian Scenario

Ritika Wason, Prashant Singh Rana, Vishal Jain
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8544-3.ch017
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Abstract

Mental disorders have been identified as one among the leading causes of the global disease burden. Despite being one of the first nations in the world to identify mental health as an important indicator of personal well-being and having adequate plans and policies for ensuring the same, one in every seven Indians is affected by mental disorders of varying severity. Through this manuscript we try to analyze how real-time mental health monitoring has helped improve productivity among the global workforce as well as prevented deterioration of individual mental health across the globe. Our main plan of this study is to identify the significant efforts in mental health monitoring across the globe and then chalk out a real-time mental health monitoring framework for India. We also propose a real-time mental health monitoring smartphone-based framework for India we name as SmartMHealth. We describe the basic components of this framework in this study itself.
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Need Of Mental Health Monitoring

As per global statistics (Kamdar & Wu, 2017), Neuropsychiatric or mental disorders along with cardiovascular diseases, cancer and other communicable diseases are a major contributor to the global burden of diseases and disease-related mortality. Table 1 below lists certain major neuropsychiatric disorders that are currently daunting the human race.

Table 1.
Classification of Neuropsychiatric Disorders(Garcia-Ceja et al., 2018).
S. No.Disorder ClassSigns & Symptoms
1Mood Disorders like depression, unipolar and bipolar disordersHypoactive Electrodermal Response, Reduced Motor Activity (Chang et al., 2014; Sarchiapone et al., 2018; Todder, Caliskan, & Baune, 2007; Volkers et al., 2003), Cardiac Autonomy Disregulation (Chang et al., 2014)
2Anxiety-Related Disorder (Anorexia, Eating Disorders, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), Panic Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome)Sleep Problems, Heart Palpitations, Unable to stay calm and still
3SchizophreniaReduced Motor Activity (Winograd-Gurvich, Fitzgerald, Georgiou-Karistianis, Bradshaw, & White, 2006)
4DementiaMemory Problems, Depression, loss of ability to do everyday tasks
5Substance Use DisorderDisorientations

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