Objective monitoring of mental health via deep digital phenotyping and machine learning– viability study with athletes

Prorizon是一家数字健康科技公司，开发软件和应用程序，以支持年轻人在高压、高性能环境(即体育、教育和创意部门)中的健康和表现。这个项目最初专注于一个特定的群体：训练有素的运动员，他们中的许多人患有长期的焦虑、抑郁和自杀念头。在这个科技驱动的后COVID世界里，许多年轻人经历了一些健康问题，身体和精神之间的这种不匹配是基础。目前，精神疾病的诊断几乎完全依赖于自我报告措施，如采访和问卷，当儿童和年轻人到了危急关头，言语无法清楚地表达他们的感受时，他们就会进行这种诊断。没有其他健康状况主要依赖自我报告来定义疾病并确定干预措施。当前年轻人的健康正受到不必要的损害。为了更好地发挥作用，我们的大脑和身体需要协同工作。他们这样做的能力是由我们体内的一种称为荷尔蒙的化学物质驱动的。这些荷尔蒙为我们的大脑和身体提供了和谐工作所需的通讯。如果其中一种受到损害或损害，荷尔蒙的情况就会发生变化，我们的健康就会随着时间的推移而恶化，导致长期的健康状况不佳和生活质量下降。Pronizon通过开发一种技术来克服这一挑战，这种技术允许对心理和身体健康进行公正、准确的生物监测，从而及早进行预防性干预。它通过筛选我们的身体、情绪和荷尔蒙特征并可视化我们的健康状况来实现这一点，从而允许开出有效的预防性干预或相关的个性化治疗。这项快速启动赠款使Prorizon能够为年轻运动员推出最低限度的可行产品。支持数据收集和分析。利用这笔赠款在该项目中开展的工作是开发所需数据集的关键，以便为身体和精神健康之间的可靠联系提供证据。这也将使我们能够确定产品开发的下一步，这将使Prorizon能够证明产品适合市场，获得进一步的资金，并将产品推向更广泛的市场。有了Prorizon的技术，年轻人将能够深入了解他们的身心健康，监测所发生的变化和进展，并支持他们的机构未来的健康发展。对于组织和医疗保健专业人员，它将提供循序渐进、具体和有效的指导，以便在需要时提供有针对性的支持和个性化干预。

Prorizon is a digital health tech company developing software and applications to support the health and performance of young people in high-pressure, high-performance environments (i.e. those in sports, education, and the creative sector). This project initially focuses on a particular group: highly-trained athletes, many of whom suffer from long-term anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. This mismatch between body and mind underlies some of the health issues experienced by many young people in this tech-driven, post-COVID world.Currently, diagnoses of mental ill-health almost exclusively rely on self-reporting measures such as interviews and questionnaires, undertaken when children and young adults have reached crisis point and words fail them to express their feelings clearly. No other health condition relies predominantly on self-reporting to define the illness and determine the intervention. The health of the current young population is being unnecessarily compromised.To function well, our mind and our body need to work together. The ability for them to do so is driven by chemicals in our bodies called hormones. These hormones provide the communication needed for our brain and our body to work in harmony. If either is damaged or compromised, the profile of the hormones changes and our health over time deteriorates, resulting in long-term ill-health and reduced quality of life.Prorizon overcomes this challenge by developing the technology that allows impartial, accurate biological monitoring of and therefore early preventative interventions for, mental and physical health together. It achieves this by screening our physical, mood, and hormone profiles and visualising our well-being, thereby allowing effective preventative interventions or relevant, personalised treatments to be prescribed.This Fast Start Grant enables Prorizon to launch a minimal viable product for young athletes. Enabling data collection and analyses. The work carried out in this project, with this grant, is key to developing the dataset needed, to provide evidence for reliable associations between physical and mental wellbeing. This will also enable the determination of the next steps in product development, which will allow Prorizon to prove product-market-fit, gain further funding and grow the product to the wider market.With Prorizon's technology, young people will be able to gain a deep understanding of their mental and physical well-being, monitoring changes and progress made and supporting their agency for future health development. For organisations and healthcare professionals, it will provide progressive, specific, and effective guidance for targeted support and individualised interventions at the time of need.