Mental health is fast becoming a major challenge worldwide as the incidence of mental illness has been increasing. It is affecting the quality of life as well as job productivity for a large number of people. Just like physical illnesses, people with mental illnesses can be treated and monitored for a range of conditions and provided medical care as and when necessary. In this chapter, we introduce a new field of wireless psychiatry, or a way to address many problems using wireless technologies. This includes comprehensive monitoring of patients for symptoms, behavior, and medication compliance. The monitoring for behavior includes suicidal and homicidal behavior; monitoring for related physical conditions such as sleep patterns and weight loss as part of depression and suicidal behavior; and any weight gain due to inactivity and certain medications. Several examples of mental health monitoring, medication compliance monitoring and disability monitoring are also presented.
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Varshney, U. (2009). Monitoring of Mental Health, Medication and Disability. In: Pervasive Healthcare Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0215-3_12
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