Wearables for Mental Health: How Smartwatches Track Stress, Sleep, & Other Signs of Mental Wellbeing
Smartwatches cannot diagnose a mental health condition, but a growing body of research suggests the physiological data they already collect may carry meaningful signals about a person's mental wellbeing.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 10.6 % of the adult population of India suffers from some form of mental illness, with a treatment gap of over 80% in cases of common illnesses like depression and anxiety. In light of this information, wearable devices used to monitor mental health are being investigated by researchers and technologists as another means of passively gathering information from consumer devices that are already in use by many individuals for physical fitness tracking.
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