STTR Phase I: Digital Mental Health for Children and Adolescents

STTR 第一阶段：儿童和青少年的数字心理健康

• 批准号: 2110953
• 负责人: Tamara Fyke
• 金额: $ 25.59万
• 依托单位: BLUEWONDER CREATIVE, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2110953&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Digital; Mental; Health

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is improved children’s mental and behavioral health via the creation of a platform that unifies the silos of healthcare and education to put children and families first. Due in part to the current pandemic, there is an increased need to support children’s mental and behavioral health. The end-users are the 28 million children between 8-12 years old in America. The team is advancing patient-centered care and personalized education. After the platform is tested for an initial age group of 8-12-year-olds, the plan is to expand the platform across the age-span, including early childhood through senior adults. The platform promises engaging, self-contained, adaptable, safe, and research-based support and learning. The team expects to grow their market share through strategic partnerships with healthcare, education, industry, and non-profit partners. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project focuses on leveraging technology, including natural language processing, machine learning, and chatbots, to provide information to students, families, and educators about mental and behavioral health and to get feedback from these groups through their web-based computing devices. This project seeks to develop an online platform that will engage students and allow them to leverage personal care resources aimed at building resilience and providing them access to support and information customized to their individual needs. This Phase I project focuses on building a proof-of-concept platform that provides precision mental health solutions by combining interactive health and wellness methods with engaging content personalized and delivered by machine learning technologies and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是通过创建一个平台来改善儿童的心理和行为健康，该平台将医疗保健和教育的孤岛统一起来，将儿童和家庭放在第一位。 部分由于当前的大流行，支持儿童心理和行为健康的需求日益增加。 最终用户是美国2800万8-12岁的儿童。该团队正在推进以患者为中心的护理和个性化教育。 该平台针对 8 至 12 岁的初始年龄组进行测试后，计划将该平台扩展到整个年龄跨度，包括幼儿期到老年人。 该平台承诺提供引人入胜、独立、适应性强、安全且基于研究的支持和学习。该团队希望通过与医疗保健、教育、工业和非营利合作伙伴的战略合作伙伴关系来扩大市场份额。 这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目的重点是利用自然语言处理、机器学习和聊天机器人等技术，向学生、家庭和教育工作者提供有关心理和行为健康的信息，并通过这些群体基于网络的计算设备获取反馈。该项目旨在开发一个在线平台，吸引学生并允许他们利用个人护理资源，旨在增强弹性，并为他们提供根据个人需求定制的支持和信息。该第一阶段项目的重点是构建一个概念验证平台，通过将交互式健康和保健方法与机器学习技术和工具提供的个性化内容相结合，提供精准的心理健康解决方案。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。