MindGuide – Improving the Mental Health of Adolescents with digitized screening process and feedback loop optimisation

There is a significant societal challenge of high levels of mental illness in adolescents (aged 13-20). As many as 70% of young people with mental health conditions do not receive adequate professional help.

Negative stigmas associated with being mentally ill; overburdened healthcare systems with long waiting times and a traditional approach that is largely un-digitized are some of the largest barriers to adolescents accessing help. Zamax founder and CEO, Dr. Lina Klanšek, is a specialist in adolescent psychiatry.

She is acutely aware of the obstacles that prevent young people from accessing mental health support, and is using her knowledge in the field to develop MindGuide. MindGuide is a unique interactive platform for youth mental health. We are developing a chatbot to detect likely mental health conditions in the user.

Based on these results, MindGuide will offer a clinical treatment suggestion, providing connections to access these. Following the treatment process, MindGuide will conduct a follow-up with the user. Within this, it discovers whether the suggested treatments were engaged with, if they were successful, and if not, why.

The data collected in this stage will create a feedback loop to inform and optimise the entire platform, particularly the screening process and the treatments suggested.

Leveraging the proposed BES support, the objectives of the project include: • Developing and incorporating feedback loop• Further understanding and developing the market opportunity in the context of latest conditions and drivers and alongside final technical solution development. • Refining a detailed and rigorously reviewed business plan. • Clearly defining the product offer and most effective routes for dissemination to target market/s. • Establishing clear plans for scaling the business opportunity and operations