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Mindcraft: A Mobile Mental Health Monitoring Platform for Children and Young People
Balasundaram Kadirvelu;
Bianca Cabral C. C. Branco;
Xiaofei Wu;
Victoria Burmester;
Braulio Manuel Girela Serrano;
Shayma Ananth;
Teresa Bellido Bel;
Julia Gledhill;
Martina Di Simplicio;
Dasha Nicholls;
A.Aldo Faisal
ABSTRACT
The mental health of children and young people is an emerging major public health issue that requires means of addressing it in an age-appropriate and effective way. Here we present Mindcraft, a mobile mental health monitoring platform which has been developed in response to the negative mental health trends among children and young people. Mindcraft followed a human-centred design approach focusing on user experience and careful collection of meaningful mental health-related self-reported data and passive mobile sensor data following Good Clinical Practice standards of data security and privacy. User acceptance testing of the app done via a patient and public involvement group showed good acceptability of the app. Our platform’s design has the potential to facilitate mental health studies to support a range of clinical study questions, including digital micro-interventions in the future and expand into an intervention system.
Citation
Please cite as:
Kadirvelu B, C. C. Branco BC, Wu X, Burmester V, Girela Serrano BM, Ananth S, Bellido Bel T, Gledhill J, Di Simplicio M, Nicholls D, Faisal A
Mindcraft, a Mobile Mental Health Monitoring Platform for Children and Young People: Development and Acceptability Pilot Study