Published on in Vol 9 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/67585, first published .
Unlocking the Potential of Wear Time of a Wearable Device to Enhance Postpartum Depression Screening and Detection: Cross-Sectional Study

Unlocking the Potential of Wear Time of a Wearable Device to Enhance Postpartum Depression Screening and Detection: Cross-Sectional Study

Unlocking the Potential of Wear Time of a Wearable Device to Enhance Postpartum Depression Screening and Detection: Cross-Sectional Study

Eric Hurwitz   1 , PhD ;   Samantha Meltzer-Brody   2 , MPH, MD ;   Zachary Butzin-Dozier   3 , PhD ;   Rena C Patel   4 , MPhil, MPH, MD ;   Noémie Elhadad   5 , PhD ;   Melissa A Haendel   1 , PhD

1 Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

2 Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

3 Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

4 Department of Infectious Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

5 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Eric Hurwitz, PhD
  • Department of Genetics
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 120 Mason Farm Road
  • Chapel Hill, NC 27599
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 919 843 8724
  • Email: eric_hurwitz@med.unc.edu