A5034072064- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Community Health and Development
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Mental Health via Writing
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Media in Health Education
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2009-2025
Hospital Universitario San Ignacio
2024
The University of Sydney
2015-2022
Background The Mental Health eClinic (MHeC) aims to deliver best-practice clinical services young people experiencing mental health problems by making care accessible, affordable, and available whenever wherever they need it most. original MHeC consists of home page with a visible triage system for those requiring urgent help; online physical self-report assessment; results dashboard; booking videoconferencing system; the generation personalized well-being plan. Populations who do not speak...
Background: Each year, many young Australians aged between 16 and 25 years experience a mental health disorder, yet only small proportion access services even fewer receive timely evidence-based treatments. Today, with ever-increasing to the Internet use of technology, potential provide all people (24 hours day, 7 days week) support they require improve their well-being is promising. Objective: The aim this study was participatory design (PD) as research methodologies end users (young youth...
Project Synergy aims to test the potential of new and emerging technologies enhance quality mental health care provided by traditional face-to-face services. Specifically, it seeks ensure that consumers get right care, first time (delivery effective early in course illness). Using co-design with affected individuals, has built, implemented evaluated an online platform assist assessment, feedback, management monitoring people disorders. It also promotes maintenance wellbeing collating social...
Suicidal thoughts are common among young people presenting to face-to-face and online mental health services. The early detection rapid response these suicidal other behaviors is a priority for suicide prevention intervention efforts internationally. Establishing how best use new emerging technologies facilitate person-centered systematic assessment suicidality crucial efforts.The aim of this study was examine the escalation protocol respond help-seeking people.A total 232 in age range 16-25...
Globally, there are fundamental shortcomings in mental health care systems, including restricted access, siloed services, interventions that poorly matched to service users' needs, underuse of personal outcome monitoring track progress, exclusion family and carers, suboptimal experiences care. Health information technologies (HITs) hold great potential improve these aspects underpin the enhanced quality care.Project Synergy aimed co-design, implement, evaluate novel HITs, as exemplified by...
Globally there is increasing recognition that new strategies are required to reduce disability due common mental health problems. As 75% of and substance use disorders emerge during the teenage or early adulthood years, these need be readily accessible young people. When considering how provide such services at scale, innovative technologies show promise in augmenting traditional clinic-based services.The aim this study was test assess clinical stage intervention youth using a prototypic...
Health information technologies (HITs) hold enormous promise for improving access to and providing better quality of mental health care. However, despite the spread such in high-income countries, these have not yet been commonly adopted low- middle-income countries. People living parts world are at risk experiencing physical, technological, social inequalities. A possible solution is utilize currently available HITs developed other counties.Using participatory design methodologies with...
Despite suicide's public health significance and global mental awareness, current suicide prevention efforts show limited impact, posing a challenge for low- middle-income countries. This study aimed to develop dynamic simulation model that could be used examine the potential effectiveness of alternative interventions reducing youth problems suicidal behavior in Bogotá, Colombia. A system dynamics was designed using participatory approach involving three workshops conducted 2021 2022. These...
As online mental health support groups become increasingly popular, they require more from volunteers and trained moderators who help their users through "interventions" (i.e., responding to questions providing support). We present a system that supports such human interventions using Natural Language Generation (NLG) techniques. The generates draft responses aimed at reducing moderators' workload, improving efficacy. NLG were compared the ratings of 35 psychology interns. NLG-based was...
We sought to explore mental health and psychosocial impact among young people (18 24 years old) in Bogotá during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic.
Background Out of school hours care (OSHC) services provide a unique opportunity to deliver early intervention programs enhance primary school–aged children’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive well-being; however, such are currently lacking. Objective This study aims address the lack well-being for children accessing OSHC in research literature by using participatory design (PD) collaboratively develop test an program—the connect, promote, protect program (CP3). Methods The employed...
Online searches about anxiety and depression are recorded every 3-5 s. As such, information communication technologies (ICT) have enormous potential to enable or impair help-seeking patient-professional interactions. Youth studies indicate that ICT undertaken before initial mental health consultations, but no publications considered how this online activity affects the first steps of patient journey in youth settings.State-of-the-art review using an iterative, evidence mapping approach...
The global need to effectively address mental health problems and wellbeing is well recognised. Today, online systems are increasingly being viewed as an effective solution for their ability reach broad populations. As support groups become popular the workload human moderators increases. Maintaining quality feedback becomes challenging community grows. Tools that can automatically detect from social media posts then generate smart greatly reduce overload. In this paper, we present a system...
Although focus groups are a valuable qualitative research tool, face-to-face meetings may be difficult to arrange and time consuming. This challenge has been further compounded by the global COVID-19 pandemic subsequent lockdown physical distancing measures implemented, which caused exceptional challenges human activities. Online (OFGs) an example of alternative strategy require study. At present, OFGs have mostly studied used in high-income countries, with little information relating their...
Patient and stakeholders' involvement in the development of mental health interventions is a central part research process as end-user's input can improve design patient-centered interventions. This particularly important when developing directed towards improving children adolescents. The rising prevalence disorders this population requires special attention that include them active participants crucial.
Colombia is a middle-income country in South America, which has historically had high rates of mental health problems, coupled with scarcity care. There growing concern for the adolescent population within this region. significant treatment gap young people, especially those living most vulnerable areas. DIALOG+ low-cost patient-centered intervention that can potentially improve delivery care and quality life adolescents problems.This exploratory randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate...
One of the greatest global threats to mental health and wellbeing is already discernible impact climate change on local communities, particularly those living in most vulnerable places planet, as well predicted impacts globally over next 25–50 years (Romanello et al., 2021). Impacts have been reported communities which devastated, often repeatedly, by extreme weather events (floods, cyclones, drought, bushfires, etc.) (Obradovich 2018). These include massive social dislocation, loss...