Peta (Mental Health Solution)
Background
Mental health issue is currently a hot topic of social concern, especially mental illnesses led by depression, which has become the fourth most common disease in the world. For children and adolescents, the problem is even more serious.
The supply of psychiatrists and counselors is inadequate, and the lack of available medical tools in the pre-diagnosis and post-diagnosis follow-up is even more serious, resulting in many people not receiving timely professional treatment in the early stages of the disease, which can cause serious consequences.
800K
people die by suicide each year worldwide.
40”
one person ends his or her life.
30M
children and adolescents under 17 in China are suffering from various mood disorders and behavioral problems.
30%
of them have experienced depression.
10%
of them have experienced anxiety disorders.
The China Youth Development Report shows that psychological problems such as learning difficulties, school bullying, and mood disorders are very common.
42%
of incidence of children's mental health is
neglected.
The predictive effect of different types on depression and anxiety shows that neglect is the most damaging to children's mental health. Since children and adolescents are insensitive to the perception of psychological problems and it is very difficult to seek help in time, it is crucial that guardians are able to detect children's mental illnesses in the early stages.
Design Brief
We hope to combine intelligent means to effectively accompany and guide children, detect potential mental health problems as early as possible, promptly alert guardians to introduce scientific treatment, and prevent serious consequences fundamentally.
Questionnaire
School Psychological Counseling
Family Psychological Counseling
Guardians views
Since this is a project research for minors, we also researched the guardians of these individuals.
Interview
Keyword
The main pressure on children comes from academic pressure and high parental demands
Some negative emotions are unwilling to talk with parents, rather than their friends.
The psychological problems of children and adolescents are very serious and more complicated than adults’.
Psychological counseling is helpless at school.
Competitive Product Analysis
Top rank products in App Store
According to the “purpose and form of use”, it can be divided into four categories. It shows there is a huge room for development in the Chinese market for mental health monitoring products.
In addition, diaries apps have a greater acceptance than communication with real people. It is highly homogeneous for most mental health apps to communicate directly.
Competitive Product Analysis
1. AI psychological diagnosis technology
The NYU research team used speech analysis technology, part of SRIInternational's speech analysis platform SenSay Analytics, to diagnose PTSD symptoms with an 89% success rate. The analysis of speech combines the frequency, rhythm, and pitch of speech, as well as articulatory features, to infer the speaker's communication quality, cognition, emotion, physical and mental health.
3. Models of neural language
USC has a model of neural language for custom sentiment text generation, Affect-LM, for generating real feeling dialogue based on contextual words, sentiment categories and sentiment intensity parameters without sacrificing grammatical correctness.
2. Children Psychological Disorders Diagnosis
Bingmei Chen et al. developed a diagnostic system for child psychological disorders using neural network technology. This system can diagnose more than 95% of child psychological disorders, including 17 major categories and 61 common child psychological disorders, and in addition, the diagnostic system is able to provide treatment advice for each disorder.
4. Relevant Products Market Trends
Social recognition of online psychological products is increasing. Over 90% of people are willing to pay for psychological products, which provides opportunities for innovative mental health products.
Persona & Journey
Opportunity
1. A suitable person to talk to
For children and adolescents, talking with a person who meets expectations is a gradual process of learning to accept and control negative feelings.
2. Novel ways of talking negative emotions
Traditional ways of expression such as writing diaries are no longer enough to meet the needs of today's children and adolescents, and they need a more innovative way to express negative emotions.
Ideation
Information Hierarchy
Wireframe
Design