Attitudes toward health and communication in depressed older adults

Seraphina Yong, Min Wei Hung, Chien Wen Yuan, Chih Chiang Chiu, Ming Chyi Huang, Chuang Wen You

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Abstract

Geriatric depression (GD) entails unique challenges that result from the complex interplay of issues specific to either the aging or depressed, such as cognitive error and health anxiety. We conducted an interview study to assess issues encountered by depressed older adults in communication and perception of their conditions, and explore how personal tracking could mitigate such issues. Our results identify how patients? behavior and communication of their condition with others are impacted by their biases, informing how GD-specialized monitoring can be designed to facilitate recovery.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCSCW 2020 Companion - Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages425-429
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380591
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Oct 17
Event3rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 2020 Oct 172020 Oct 21

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Conference

Conference3rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period2020/10/172020/10/21

Keywords

  • Geriatric depression
  • Health
  • Older adults
  • Personal informatics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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