Using Mobile Apps to Support People with Implementing Coping-relevant Behaviour Change Techniques for Stress Self-management

使用移动应用程序支持人们实施与应对相关的行为改变技术以进行压力自我管理

基本信息

批准号：
1803670
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1803670
关键词：
Using Mobile Apps Support People

项目摘要

Increasing numbers of youths with depression and anxiety symptoms and the lack of enough specilists to help them (Merry, 2012) highlights the need for more relevant, accessible and targeted approaches for treatments. Numerous studies have shown that young people tend to gravitate towards gaming and that serious videogames are effective in changing health-related behaviour (Baranowsky, 2011). It is proposed to tackle the issues of inaccessibility of professionals as well as self motivation to seek out care by developing a serious videogame/mobile app that would diagnose, offer customised treatment and preventative care by establishing resilience to environmental stressors from an early age.The work will be carried out in 3 phases - phase 1 will seek to determine factors contributing to motivation, while phase 2 will explore what types of information would improve a game's or app's effectiveness (eg healthy lifestyle information). Phase 2 will also involve game/app design workshops with youths to ensure the game/app is relevant to this potential user group as well as building and test protoypes. The final phase will involve usability testing of a fully working version of the game/app with follow-up testing over longer periods (3 months+). It is hoped to pursue longitudinal studies as well to establish effectiveness in the longer term.

抑郁症和焦虑症状的年轻人数量越来越多，缺乏足够的特异性人士来帮助他们（Merry，2012年），凸显了需要更相关，易于访问和有针对性的治疗方法。许多研究表明，年轻人倾向于吸引游戏，而严肃的视频游戏可有效改变与健康相关的行为（Baranowsky，2011年）。有人建议通过开发一个认真的电子游戏/移动应用程序来解决专业人士的无法访问的问题，以及自我动机，以诊断，提供自定义的治疗和预防性护理，从小就从小开始诊断，提供定制治疗和预防性护理。工作将分为3个阶段 - 第1阶段将寻求确定有助于动机的因素，而第2阶段将探索哪些类型的信息将提高游戏或应用程序的有效性（例如健康的生活方式信息）。第2阶段还将涉及与年轻人的游戏/应用设计研讨会，以确保游戏/应用程序与该潜在用户组以及构建和测试原型有关。最后阶段将涉及对游戏/应用程序的全面工作版本进行可用性测试，并在更长的时间内（3个月+）进行后续测试。希望从长远来看，也可以进行纵向研究以建立有效性。