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OntheUseofSensors inMental Healthcare NidalDRISSI a,1,SofiaOUHBI b,MohammedABDOUJANATI IDRISSI a, MohamedELKOUTBI a andMounirGHOGHO c aENSIAS,MohammedVUniversity inRabat,Morocco. bDeptofComputerScience&SoftwareEngineering,CIT,UAEUniversity,AlAin, UAE. cUniversite´ InternationaledeRabat,Rabat,Morocco. Abstract.Theuseofconnectedhealthsolutionsinthediagnosisandthemonitoring ofmental health issues is a promising field. However, in order for the connected mental health solutions to be effective, accurate data about the patient’s mental and physical state is required. Sensors can therefore be very helpful instruments to provide patient’s data needed for a good diagnosis andmonitoring. This paper conducts a literature survey to present the current research involving connected health solutions using sensors in the treatment ofmental health. Seventeenpapers are selected following a search protocol and analyzed to present the publication trend of research on sensors used formental health and to identify their research typesandcontribution types.Thisstudymayassist researchers interested in theuse of sensors formental health care, as it can serve as a starting point presenting an overviewof theaddressedtopicsandtheweakareasof theresearch.Thestudymay also assist patients andclinicians interested in thefield tohave anoverviewof the proposedsolutionsandusesof sensors inmentalhealthcare. Keywords. sensors,mentalhealth, connectedhealth, review 1. Introduction Mentalhealth isacrucialaspectof thegeneralhealth.There isnostablehealthwithouta stablementalhealth[1].Mental illnessesconstituteanimportantpartoftheglobalburden ofdisease, andarebecomingamoreserious threatover time[2].Evidencesuggests that goodcommunicationbetweenclinicians andpatients is particularly important inmental healthcareinwhichdiagnosticproceduresarebasedonverbalcommunicationratherthan on physical and objective examinations [3,4]. Connected health can support effective communicationbetween thepatient and theclinician [5]. Connected mental health or e-mental health is an aspect of healthcare that intro- duces theuseof InformationandCommunicationTechnologies (ICT) solutions inmen- tal healthcare. Connected health services contribute to the improvement of themental healthcare domain by helping in the diagnosis and detection ofmental illnesses [6] as well as themonitoringofpeople inproblematic situations [7].Connectedmental health 1CorrespondingAuthor.E-mail: drissi.nidal@gmail.com Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190058 307