Relationship between biometric data, social media posts and psychological scales

• Grant number: 23/00950-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2023
• End date: December 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Psychiatry
• Principal Investigator: Taís Bleicher
• Grantee: Gabriel Juvenal Reinert
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Social medias are integrated in the everyday life of people, being a place toshare thoughts, opinions, and feelings, in a way that analysis of posts allow to identify mentalsuffering. In parallel, wearable technologies became popular, allowing to continuous gather dataabout sleep, physical activities, etc. Thus, there's a possibility to identify mental suffering throughthe data collected by wearable devices. OBJECTIVES: This project is based on the possibility toanalyses together the social media and wearable devices' data, to find a relation with individualmental state. METHODOLOGY: This project will use cardiac frequency data, psychometric scales'answers and public social media posts of volunteers to a qualitative analyses, in order to find arelationship between the date of Brazilian college students with and without possible depressiveprofiles.