eD-PROPSY

The precision psychiatry exploratory research program – PEPR PROPSY is a vast research program which, via the French Minds cohort, will explore new biomarkers that could contribute to the development of precision medicine for mental illnesses.

The aim of the project is to provide a digital solution, based on the Kanopée application, developed by UMR 6033 CNRS SANPSY. It will evaluate patients included in the cohort via a virtual agent in ecological conditions (at home), throughout their follow-up.

All patients will use this digital solution to benefit from repeated assessments, between the annual face-to-face visits carried out as part of the project.
These assessments will include EMA (Ecological Momentary Assessment), using self-questionnaires and interviews with virtual agents, as well as passive data collection via a smartphone app and wearable devices (wristband measuring sleep and physical activity).

Empathic human interfaces, based on animated conversational agents (ACA), will be used on a smartphone given to the patient for the study.
The EMA measures will assess a set of clinical variables based on validated self-questionnaires and interviews proposed by the ACA : alcohol/tobacco consumption, physical and psychological pain, insomnia, anxiety and depressive symptoms, dark thoughts.

The patient will complete a weekly interview of less than 15 minutes with the ACA, so as to complete each questionnaire at least once a month, throughout participation in the cohort.
Passive data will complement the EMA assessments and digital interviews, and provide an objective measure of physical activity and sleep. They will be recorded daily, over more limited periods, using connected wristbands.

Clermont-Ferrand University