Mobile, fast response, and interactive measurement tool of psychological disorders under android based smartphone

Depression, anxiety, and stress are common psychological disorders that has been suffered by human. Since the number of sufferer has been increasing fast, recently, it becomes important to measure the level of those disorders and offer practical solutions. Usually, psychological disorders are measured by Psychologists using Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) – 21 form which consists of 21 questionnaires that should be filled, honestly. However this type of measurement is not attractive, time consuming, boring, and making the psychological disorders even worse. This research aims to develop a mobile, fast response, and interactive measurement tool of psychological disorders, in android based smart phones. Waterfall method which consists of system analysis, design, implementation, and testing is chosen to develop this application software. The measurement is based on the DASS-21 calculation scale to define the level of depression, anxiety, and stress. Black-box testing shows that the developed application software runs as expected. Validation result of the psychological disorder level which was examined by comparing it to the result from the test data demonstrates high accuracy.