New Study: How Smartphones Could Help Predict Suicide Risk Among Adolescents
August 30, 2019
Filed in: Health & Wellbeing | Technology
What if there were a way that digital technology could help adolescents in the face of mental health crises? Center advisor Dr. Nick Allen, University of Oregon, one of the co-investigators in the MAPS (Mobile Assessment for the Prevention of Suicide) study, talked to Science magazine about how digital tech could help predict and prevent suicide.
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