To the Editor: Fedor et al. (Dec. 28 issue)¹ review a topic of growing interest: the potential of wearable devices to gather objective measures to aid in the treatment of depression. However, in psychiatry, we posit that subjectivity plays a primary role in treatment²; the evaluation of depression is more complex than a simple sum of symptoms.^3,4 Furthermore, medication that is commonly used to treat depression can produce changes that make it difficult to assess the patient’s true clinical status.⁴ For example, sleep, one subject of the review article, may be one of the factors most affected during the treatment . . .

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可穿戴技术在抑郁症临床实践中的应用

致编辑： Fedor 等人。（12 月 28 日号）¹回顾一个日益令人感兴趣的话题：可穿戴设备收集客观测量数据以帮助治疗抑郁症的潜力。然而，在精神病学中，我们认为主观性在治疗中起着主要作用²；抑郁症的评估比简单的症状总和更为复杂。^3,4此外，常用于治疗抑郁症的药物可能会产生变化，导致难以评估患者的真实临床状态。⁴例如，睡眠（该评论文章的主题之一）可能是治疗期间影响最大​​的因素之一。。。