What does the ideal participant look like? I’ve followed this story in recent months and all in all, I like the approach of selectively sharing notes in cases where doing so might be beneficial for a patient or where a patient or caregiver specifically requests access. Do you know an answer to a following question. Can a weeklong global survey conducted through a mobile app offer an accurate representation of mental health worldwide?The developers of the app called How is the World Feeling?
The organization tested the concept using a similar survey model focused only on Australia, before developing the app.
Did you know that the project gathered more than 20000 updates from about 3800 users in Australia. With that said, the app comes from Spur Projects, a Australian based suicide prevention organization. While emphasizing how mental health problems impact various people and regions of the world differently, the goals of the global version include using the app’s online momentum to kick start an international conversation about mental health. Of course mGMH aims to improve the availability, accessibility and quality of services for people with mental disorders worldwide -especially in lowand ‘middleincome’ countries -by scaling up services based.
Advertised as the largest mental health project in history, users of the app will answer identifying questions including those about their age, gender and sexual identity, and relationship status, among others when first enrolling.
Users can report feeling angry, anxious, happy, sad, powerful, or peaceful.
Besides, the app will also direct users in need to mental health resources where available and provide ols for managing symptoms like anxiety or mood swings. They going to be prompted periodically from October 10 16″ to share their current mood status. I know that the developers say the eventual data could be open source and accessible to mental health professionals worldwide. Generally, while allowing people to see trends in things that make them happy, sad, or anxious, as a benefit for users, the app will include a log of individual data. Vulnerable patients alone night at Accra Psychiatric Hospital. Greetings World Mental Health Day!