Bootstrap

背景：青少年过度使用数字技术的风险特别高，包括在应对COVID大流行的过程中，因此容易受到其对心理健康的潜在有害影响。互联网使用问题（PUI）被认为是自我管理中断的标志，对个人和社会的健康和福祉产生重大影响。目的：Bootstrap汇集了一个多学科联盟，旨在启动卫生和社会政策和实践变革，旨在减少数字化对心理健康，特别是对年轻人的有害影响。方法：我们将共同创建一个数字筛查和评估平台，以了解哪些人有患PUI的风险。将使用基于算法的模型来预测哪个个体将从哪种类型的自我管理干预中受益，并且将测试这些预防性行为干预的（成本）有效性。最后，我们将与利益攸关方共同设计一个政策工具包，以促进地方、国家和欧洲各级的数字人权问责制。影响：Bootstrap将提供关于PUI潜在（风险）心理机制和潜在干预措施的前所未有的科学知识。改进自我管理和优化健康互联网使用的工具将促进青少年的精神健康和预防精神疾病，并有助于减少耻辱感。此外，我们的政策工具包将赋予决策者和私营公司（自我）监管的权力，以保护弱势群体。从长远来看，Bootstrap将有助于改善整个欧洲和其他地区的心理健康。

BACKGROUND: Adolescents are at particularly high risk for digital technology overuse, including in response to the COVID pandemic, and are therefore vulnerable for its potential harmful effects on mental health. Problematic usage of the internet (PUI) is thought to represent a marker of disrupted self-management, with major consequences for individual and societal health and wellbeing. AIM: Bootstrap brings together a multidisciplinary consortium aiming to initiate health and social policy and practice change designed to reduce the harmful effects of digitalization on mental health, particularly for young people. APPROACH: We will co-create a digital screening and assessment platform to understand which individuals are at-risk for developing PUI. Algorithm-based models will be used to predict which individual will benefit from which type of self-management intervention, and these preventative behavioral interventions will be tested for their (cost)effectiveness. Finally, we will develop a policy toolkit in co-design with stakeholders, to promote human digital rights accountability at the local, national, and European level. IMPACT: Bootstrap will provide unprecedented scientific knowledge on the psychological mechanisms underlying (risk for) PUI and potential interventions. Improved self-management and tools to optimize healthy internet usage will promote mental health and prevent mental ill health in adolescents, and contribute to reducing stigma. In addition, our policy toolkit will empower policy makers and private companies to (self)regulate with the intent to protect vulnerable groups. In the long run, Bootstrap will thus contribute to improving mental wellbeing across Europe and beyond.