A5061914210- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health via Writing
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Hong Kong Jockey Club
2022-2023
University of Hong Kong
2021-2023
We present the opportunities and challenges of Open Up, a free, 24/7 online text-based counselling service to support youth in Hong Kong. The number youths served more than doubled within first three years since its inception 2018 response increasing suicidality mental health needs. Good practice models are being developed order sustain further scale up service. discuss structure operation, usage pattern effectiveness, use AI improve users experience, role volunteer operation. also enhancing...
More so than face-to-face counseling, users of online text-based services might drop out from a session before establishing clear closure or expressing the intention to leave. Such premature departure may be indicative heightened risk dissatisfaction with service counselor. However, there is no systematic way identify this understudied phenomenon.This study has two objectives. First, we developed set rules and used logic-based pattern matching techniques systematically departures in an...
In psychological services, the transition to disclosure of ideation about self-harm and suicide (ISS) is a critical point warranting attention. This study developed tested succinct descriptor predict such transitions in an online synchronous text-based counseling service.We analyzed two years' worth sessions (N = 49,770) from Open Up, 24/7 service Hong Kong. Sessions Year 1 20,618) were used construct word affinity network (WAN), which depicts semantic relationships between words. 2 29,152),...