STTR Phase I: Peripheral Autonomic Regulation Training for Mental Health: Enabling Multimodal Peripheral Biofeedback in a Higher Education Setting

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力不仅限于高等教育界，而且在小学，初中和高中阶段有更广泛的应用，特别是在自杀率和心理健康问题增加的服务不足和边缘化社区。该项目的创新技术可以帮助解决该国青年的心理健康危机，特别是在美洲土著人卫生系统以及少年被拘留者/少年司法系统。该项目基于游戏干预结合生物识别传感的益处实施研究，有可能提供必要的技术，使心理健康专业人员能够开发替代药物干预的选项，提供个性化和基于测量的心理健康服务。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目使用预测算法，可穿戴技术和外围自主生物反馈提供及时有效的数据，使心理健康专业人员能够为学生制定治疗和治疗支持。成人精神疾病增加、精神卫生专业人员短缺以及儿童和青少年精神病医生短缺等挑战，要求采用远程精神病学、协作护理和创新技术，以弥合供应不足与需求增加之间的差距。建议的方法涉及生物行为技术的发展，为心理健康专业人员提供交互式压力和焦虑评估，使年轻人和心理健康服务提供者之间建立深刻的变革性联系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is not limited to the higher education community, but has broader application at the elementary, middle and high school levels, especially in underserved and marginalized communities experiencing increased rates of suicide and mental health issues. This project's innovative technologies can assist in the mental health crisis in the country's youth, and specifically in the Native American health system as well as Juvenile Detainee/Juvenile Justice systems. This project's implementation of research based on the benefits of game-based intervention coupled with biometric sensing has the potential to provide the technologies necessary to equip the mental health profession to develop options that could replace pharmacological interventions with a path to delivering personalized and measurement-based mental health services.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project uses predictive algorithms, wearable technology and peripheral autonomic biofeedback to provide timely and effective data to enable mental health professionals to enact treatments and therapeutic support for students. Challenges in the increase of adult mental illness, shortage of mental health professionals and shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists require a move towards tele-psychiatry, collaborative care and innovative technology to bridge the gap between inadequate supply and increasing demand. The proposed approach involves the development of bio-behavioral technology that provides mental health professionals an interactive stress and anxiety evaluation to enable deep, transformative connections between young adults and mental health service providers.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.