Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe (IMMERSE)
IRAS ID
307153
Contact name
Matthias Schwannauer
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
KU Leuven
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 22 days
Research summary
Mental health problems reflect a major individual, family, and public health concern, affecting up to 30% of the population worldwide and often having a negative impact on functioning and quality of life. Despite the progress in mental health care and treatment, to date, mental health care has not fully shifted towards a person-centred approach. Service users are still often treated as passive recipients of care and not protagonists of the decision-making practices around their care. On the contrary, their involvement would improve engagement with services, treatment, and self-management of their mental health problems, and would help clinicians to tailor treatment closer to the service user’s current needs.
There are two main reasons why mental health care did not make this shift to personalized care. First, the lack of effective tools and strategies to empower service users to engage with their treatment as well as to provide service users and clinicians with relevant and quality information that can inform their treatment. Second, the lack of educational, organizational, technological, and regulatory strategies for effective development and use of these tools in routine mental health care.
This study sets out to directly address these issues as part of the Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe (IMMERSE) consortium. Specifically, IMMERSE provides Digital Mobile Mental Health (DMMH) as an innovative, evidence-based digital health tool, which is strongly rooted in the Experience Sampling Method, a diary technique that uses an app to provide service users with short in-the-moment questionnaires on their key problems, symptoms, mood, and context as they occur at that specific moment in time.
This study will be aimed at identifying the factors that can represent an obstacle/facilitator for the development of the DMMH, and investigates the features and strategies and requirements which could facilitate users’ experience with the DMMH.REC name
South Central - Hampshire A Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/SC/0397
Date of REC Opinion
23 Dec 2021
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion