Research trial of digital solution for eating disorder recovery

Juniver（http：//www.joinuniver.com/）是一家处于早期阶段的健康公司，其使命是通过为人们最易受影响的强迫性时刻提供按需帮助来彻底改变饮食失调症的康复。每年，饮食失调症影响英国240万人，耗资120亿英镑。目前的指南建议治疗，但恢复只是勉强成功。超过90%的患者，其中大多数是妇女，没有获得帮助，称成本，行政复杂性和耻辱是障碍。然而，症状严重地影响着他们的生活。我们通过提供一种根植于神经科学的经济实惠的解决方案来直接解决这些障碍，这种解决方案始终与您同在，适应您的症状，并具有同情心的社区，在您需要时提供额外的支持。有了这个奖项，我们将开展一项研究试验，招募各种饮食失调患者，以确定我们解决方案的功效。我们将衡量参与度和临床结果，与没有接受治疗相比，以及与当前的金标准治疗，认知行为疗法相比。今天，英国不到1%的心理健康研究资金用于饮食失调。虽然女性占患者的大多数，但饮食失调影响任何体重，年龄，性别，社会经济背景和种族的人。然而，只有不到三分之一的已发表论文反映了这种多样性，助长了典型患者是体重不足的白色年轻女性的刻板印象。我们的使命是通过数据推进对进食障碍的理解--从确定新的检测方法，到疾病的病因，再到个性化的治疗需求。我们很高兴能为建立一个不同的世界而努力，在这个世界里，我们通过公平的治疗机会、可获得的研究和同情的护理来控制自己的健康。

Juniver (http://www.joinjuniver.com/) is an early-stage health company on a mission to revolutionise eating disorder recovery by delivering on-demand help for compulsive moments, when people are most susceptible.Every year, eating disorders affect 2.4M people in the UK, costing £12b. Current guidelines recommend therapy, but recovery is only marginally successful. Over 90% of sufferers, the majority of whom are women, do not access help, stating cost, administrative complexity, and stigma as barriers. Yet, symptoms gravely affect their lives.We directly address these barriers by offering an affordable solution rooted in neuroscience that's always with you, that flexes to your symptoms, and features a compassionate community for extra support when you need it.With this award, we will run a research trial recruiting a diverse range of eating disorder sufferers to establish the efficacy of our solution. We will measure engagement and clinical outcomes, compared to receiving no treatment as well as compared to and paired with current gold standard treatment, cognitive behavioural therapy.Today, less than 1% of mental health research funding in the UK goes to eating disorders. While women represent the majority of sufferers, eating disorders affect people of any weight, age, gender, socioeconomic background and ethnicity. Yet less than a third of published papers reflect that diversity, fuelling the stereotype of the typical sufferer being an underweight, White young woman. Our mission is to advance the understanding of eating disorders through data - from identifying novel measures of detection, to disease causation, and personalised treatment needs.We're excited to work towards building a different world, where we are in control of our own health through equitable access to treatment, accessible research, and empathetic care.