Development of a Mobile Phone App to Support Self-Monitoring of Emotional Well-Being: A Mental Health Digital Innovation.

Autor:	Rickard N; Emotion and Well-being Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.; Centre for Positive Psychology, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia., Arjmand HA; Emotion and Well-being Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia., Bakker D; Emotion and Well-being Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia., Seabrook E; Emotion and Well-being Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	JMIR mental health [JMIR Ment Health] 2016 Nov 23; Vol. 3 (4), pp. e49. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Nov 23.
DOI:	10.2196/mental.6202
Abstrakt:	Background: Emotional well-being is a primary component of mental health and well-being. Monitoring changes in emotional state daily over extended periods is, however, difficult using traditional methodologies. Providing mental health support is also challenging when approximately only 1 in 2 people with mental health issues seek professional help. Mobile phone technology offers a sustainable means of enhancing self-management of emotional well-being. Objective: This paper aims to describe the development of a mobile phone tool designed to monitor emotional changes in a natural everyday context and in real time. Methods: This evidence-informed mobile phone app monitors emotional mental health and well-being, and it provides links to mental health organization websites and resources. The app obtains data via self-report psychological questionnaires, experience sampling methodology (ESM), and automated behavioral data collection. Results: Feedback from 11 individuals (age range 16-52 years; 4 males, 7 females), who tested the app over 30 days, confirmed via survey and focus group methods that the app was functional and usable. Conclusions: Recommendations for future researchers and developers of mental health apps to be used for research are also presented. The methodology described in this paper offers a powerful tool for a range of potential mental health research studies and provides a valuable standard against which development of future mental health apps should be considered. Competing Interests: Conflicts of Interest: None declared. (©Nikki Rickard, Hussain-Abdulah Arjmand, David Bakker, Elizabeth Seabrook. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 23.11.2016.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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