eMoodie | Next Generation Digital Mental Health for the Modern Workforce | UK

与工作相关的心理健康问题会对自我效能产生毁灭性的影响，破坏工作关系，影响工作表现，并导致与倦怠相关的病假。2021年，由于工作压力、抑郁和焦虑，英国损失了近1800万个工作日。这占所有健康相关缺勤的50%以上。它还会导致裁员（每年约有30万英国工人因心理健康问题而失业），在极端情况下，甚至会导致自杀。心理健康状况不佳的代价越来越高，现在英国经济每年达到惊人的1170亿英镑（伦敦经济学院，2022年）。同样，心理健康花费了英国企业560亿英镑，在三年内增长了25%（德勤，2022年）。为了解决这一日益严重的问题，我们正在开发eMoodie Minds，这是一个心理健康平台，专注于使用循证方法预防和缓解员工的职业倦怠。我们的数字化干预措施包括心理教育材料，心理治疗练习，以及来自体育科学的引导音频反射和可视化练习。内容旨在解决情绪问题，压力，焦虑，睡眠，目的是帮助个人增强抗倦怠的能力，改善情绪健康。应用的用户体验是通过引人入胜的游戏化机制来引导的，并将其包装在美观的UI中。当前项目的工作计划侧重于四个领域。首先，我们将通过用户测试来优化eMoodie Minds智能手机应用程序MVP的功能和内容。该测试将通过与外部合作伙伴的质量保证测试和在线用户测试服务相结合，重点关注可用性、可访问性和临床内容设计。其次，我们将进行需求收集，以便对我们的指示板进行原型化。第三，我们将根据英国健康应用程序监管目的的数据收集要求，为试验制定研究方案设计。四是全面规划平台监管要求，准备监管审批申请。除了我们的主要目标之外，这笔赠款还将有助于eMoodie的商业化战略，包括制定我们的销售和营销计划以及为2024年全面产品发布做准备的销售渠道。通过将最先进的评估能力与游戏化的循证干预相结合，eMoodie将为数字疗法提供更高水平的用户参与度，从而提高现代劳动力的心理健康水平。

Work-related mental health difficulties can have devastating consequences on self-efficacy, disrupt relationships at work, impair job performance and result in burnout-related sick days. In 2021, almost 18 million working days were lost in the UK due to work-related stress, depression, and anxiety. This accounts for over 50% of all health-related absences. It can also result in redundancies (approximately 300,000 UK workers lose their jobs due to mental health every year), and in extreme cases, even suicide. The growing price tag of poor mental health has now reached a staggering £117 billion annually for the UK economy (LSE, 2022). Similarly, mental health cost UK businesses £56 billion – an increase of 25% over a three-year period (Deloitte, 2022). To address this growing problem, we are developing eMoodie Minds which is a mental health platform that focuses on burnout prevention and relief for employees using evidence-based approaches. Our digitised interventions include psychoeducation materials, psychotherapeutic exercises, and guided-audio reflection and visualisation exercises derived from sports sciences. Content is aimed at addressing problems with mood, stress, anxiety, and sleep, with the goal of helping individuals strengthen their resilience against burnout and improve emotional wellbeing. The user experience of the app is directed through engaging gamification mechanisms, packaged within an aesthetically pleasing UI.The workplan for the current project focuses on four areas. First, we will seek to optimise the functionality and content for the MVP of the eMoodie Minds smartphone app through user testing. This testing will focus on usability, accessibility, and clinical content design through a combination of quality assurance testing with our external partner, and via online user testing services. Second, we will conduct requirements gathering in order to prototype our dashboard. Third, we will develop study protocol designs for trials in accordance with data collection requirements for health app regulatory purposes within the UK. Fourth, we will scope out a full plan for regulatory requirements for the platform and prepare applications for regulatory approvals. In addition to our primary objectives, the grant will also contribute to eMoodie’s commercialisation strategy, including the development of our sales and marketing plan and our sales pipeline in preparation for full product launch in 2024. By combining state-of-the-art assessment capabilities with gamified evidence-based interventions, eMoodie will deliver next-level user engagement in digital therapies, and in doing so, increase mental wellbeing in the modern workforce.