The information already stored in your smartphone could be useful for you. iFeel is an innovative app that aims to use that information towards early detection of depression. Downloading iFeel will activate a personalized early detection engine that analyzes your behavioral usage patterns and notifies your chosen Trust Buddy.
· Keep your anonymity - no registration of any personal information needed.
· Keep your control – you choose who gets notified (via text message) whenever a clinically significant depression-related deviation is detected.
· Keep your routine – no action or change of habits is required. The app simply works in the background.
· Keep your health - as "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" (Benjamin Franklin).
iFeel empowers you and your family member or friend of your choice as he/she receives a real time notification (via text message) whenever clinically significant depression-related deviation is detected.
What is unique about the iFeel is that once you download it, no action or change in your behavior is required. Language and cultural nuances do not pose a problem, since usage is analyzed according to your behavioral pattern (using sophisticated statistical variations formula) and not compared to others. This free app was developed by the Expert Platform on Mental Health – a multi-stakeholder initiative that includes experts, patient organizations (GAMIAN), family organizations (EUFAMI), and psychological organizations (IFP). The Expert Platform also includes (as observers) European Commissions (DG SANCO) and members of Parliament. The Expert Platform on Mental Health has no commercial interests and is designed to comply with all relevant security, privacy and medical regulations to ensure that the app will only be used by you and for you.
An integral part of iFeel and a key to its development and growth is feedback from the users. We hope that iFeel's engine, along with your valued feedback, contributes to strengthening and prolonging patients’ recovery.
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habari tayari kuhifadhiwa katika smartphone yako inaweza kuwa na manufaa kwa ajili yenu. iFeel ni programu ya ubunifu ambayo ina lengo la kutumia habari kwamba kuelekea kutambua mapema ya huzuni. Kupakua iFeel huamsha Msako mapema kugundua injini kwamba uchambuzi yako mwelekeo wa matumizi ya kitabia na notifies Trust yako mteule Buddy.
· Kuweka lake litajwe yako - hakuna usajili wa taarifa zozote za kibinafsi inahitajika.
· Kuweka udhibiti yako - kuchagua ambaye anapata taarifa (kupitia ujumbe wa maandishi) wakati wowote clinically muhimu kupotoka huzuni yanayohusiana ni wanaona.
· Kuweka kawaida yako - hakuna hatua au mabadiliko ya tabia inahitajika. programu tu kazi kwa nyuma.
· Kuweka afya yako - kama "Ounce ya kuzuia ni thamani ya chupa ya tiba" (Benjamin Franklin).
iFeel kuwawezesha wewe na familia yako mwanachama au rafiki wa uchaguzi wako kama yeye / yeye anapata muda halisi taarifa (kupitia ujumbe wa maandishi) wakati wowote clinically muhimu kupotoka huzuni yanayohusiana ni wanaona.
Nini ni ya kipekee kuhusu iFeel ni kwamba mara moja kushusha ni, hakuna hatua au mabadiliko katika tabia yako inahitajika. Lugha na utamaduni nuances si pose tatizo, kwa vile matumizi ni kuchambuliwa kulingana na muundo yako tabia (kutumia kisasa tofauti takwimu formula) na si ikilinganishwa na wengine. Programu hii bure ilitengenezwa na Baraza Mtaalam Afya ya Akili - wadau mbalimbali mpango kuwa ni pamoja na wataalam, mashirika ya wagonjwa (GAMIAN), Mashirika familia (EUFAMI), na mashirika kisaikolojia (IFP). Baraza Mtaalam pia ni pamoja na (kama waangalizi) Ulaya Tume (DG Sanco) na wajumbe wa Bunge. Baraza Mtaalam Afya ya Akili hana maslahi ya kibiashara na ni iliyoundwa kwa kuzingatia usalama husika wote, faragha na kanuni matibabu ili kuhakikisha kwamba programu itakuwa tu kutumika na wewe na kwa ajili yenu.
sehemu muhimu ya iFeel na muhimu kwa maendeleo yake na ukuaji wa uchumi ni maoni kutoka kwa watumiaji. Ni matumaini yetu kwamba injini iFeel ya, pamoja na maoni yako thamani, inachangia kuimarisha na kuongeza muda wa kupona wagonjwa.
Kwa habari zaidi juu ya matumizi na faida za ufuatiliaji kuendelea kitabia katika huzuni, kwenda Makala kuhusiana