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

Prorizon是一家数字健康技术公司，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。该项目最初关注一个特定的群体：训练有素的运动员，其中许多人患有长期焦虑，抑郁和自杀念头。在这个科技驱动的后COVID时代，身体和精神的不匹配是许多年轻人经历的一些健康问题的根源。目前，精神疾病的诊断几乎完全依赖于自我报告的措施，如访谈和问卷调查，当儿童和年轻人达到危机点，语言无法清楚地表达他们的感受时，他们就会采取这些措施。没有其他健康状况主要依靠自我报告来定义疾病和确定干预措施。目前年轻人的健康正受到不必要的损害。要想正常运转，我们的头脑和身体需要协同工作。他们这样做的能力是由我们体内称为激素的化学物质驱动的。这些激素提供了我们的大脑和身体和谐工作所需的沟通。如果任何一个受到损害或损害，激素的分布就会发生变化，我们的健康会随着时间的推移而恶化，导致长期健康不良和生活质量下降。Prorizon通过开发技术克服了这一挑战，该技术可以对心理和身体健康进行公正，准确的生物监测，从而进行早期预防干预。它通过筛查我们的身体、情绪和激素状况并可视化我们的健康状况来实现这一目标，从而允许有效的预防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小可行产品。支持数据收集和分析。在该项目中开展的工作，与此赠款，是关键的开发所需的数据集，提供证据的可靠关联之间的身体和心理健康。这也将有助于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。通过Prorizon的技术，年轻人将能够深入了解他们的身心健康，监测变化和进展，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，它将提供渐进的，具体的和有效的指导，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.