A5084692418- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Topic Modeling
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Burn Injury Management and Outcomes
St.John's Medical College Hospital
2023-2025
St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences
2016-2024
St. John's University
2015
In India, women in rural areas have high rates of depression. They poor access to mental healthcare resources and, hence, health symptoms remain largely unaddressed. Existing mobile telephone applications (apps) do not engage end-users, lack local language options, may be socioculturally relevant and use audiovisual formats. We thus developed a app, Multiuser Interactive Health Response Application (MITHRA), screen provide brief behavioural intervention for mild moderate depression among...
mHealth (mobile health) systems have been deployed widely in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for health system strengthening, requiring considerable resource allocation. However, most solutions not achieved scale or sustainability. Poor usability failure to address perceived needs are among the principal reasons fail achieve acceptance adoption by care workers. A human-centered design approach improving use requires an exploration of users' perceptions systems, including...
Depression is a critical public health issue among women in rural India, with diagnosis and treatment rates being very low. The paper summarizes the development of MITHRA, user-centred mobile app for depression screening self-help groups (SHGs) India. predevelopment phase involved situation analysis forming participatory design prospective users. used an Agile approach flexibility rapid adaptation. post-development user acceptance testing, training on usage, data synchronization, accuracy...
Of every 10 women in rural India, 1 suffers from a common mental disorder such as depression, and untreated depression is associated with significant morbidity mortality. Several factors lead to large treatment gap, specifically for including stigma, lack of provider health workforce, travel times. There an urgent need improve the rates detection among India without overburdening scarce resources.We propose develop, test, deploy app, MITHRA (Multiuser Interactive Health Response...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> mHealth (mobile health) systems have been deployed widely in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for health system strengthening, requiring considerable resource allocation. However, most solutions not achieved scale or sustainability. Poor usability failure to address perceived needs are among the principal reasons fail achieve acceptance adoption by care workers. A human-centered design approach improving use requires an exploration of users’...