EU - Europäische Union 101156514: YOUTHreach - Bridging Gaps in Mental Health Support: A Comprehensive European Strategy. 01/2025-12/2029.
Europe should be prepared for a mental health crisis that will last for decades, impacting on long-term health outcomes and economic productivity of our current generation of youth. Unfortunately, the present mental healthcare system fails to match their needs: 50% of European youth have unmet mental health needs, and only ~30% receive appropriate care. Therefore, YOUTHreach aims to tackle the expanding European youth mental health crisis by bridging gaps in mental health support and provide a comprehensive European strategy.
YOUTHreach will evaluate (cost-)effectiveness of 3 existing and accessible innovative interventions for prevention and early intervention of mental ill-health in youth, that have been developed and tested in co-creation with youth:
1) walk-in youth mental health support centres, operational in 6 European countries and Australia;
2) a guided self-help mHealth intervention operational in 1 European country;
3) clinical and peer-moderated digital treatment platforms, operational in 2 European countries and Australia.
In addition, feasibility and acceptability at new sites across Europe will be tested. Best practice recommendations will be developed and built with existing and new data, into an integrated European youth mental health framework. Finally, awareness and accessibility of these interventions among policymakers (including HTA bodies), sociologists, ethicists, healthcare professionals, citizens and the target group will be increased.
YOUTHreach activities will benefit from engagement of and co-creation with young people and their support network for the whole duration of the project and a lasting privacy protected accessible (FAIR) research data infrastructure and an Open Science framework in the field of youth mental health and health services research. YOUTHreach will impact by transforming the present traditional mental healthcare system, tackling the current crisis and offer perspective, health and productivity to the next generation.
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Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim MWK32-7531-27/5/2: MAISHA - Sociocultural insights to strengthen precision psychiatry: a human-centered design framework to adapt and pilot a digital mental health intervention with adolescents. 01/2024-12/2025.
MAISHA hat das Ziel, einen kulturell angepassten Ansatz zur Förderung der psychischen Gesundheit in Ostafrika zu entwickeln und evaluieren. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit Jugendlichen in Kenia und Tansania entwickeln wir ein hybrides Training, das digitale und persönliche Elemente kombiniert. In einem human-centered Design-Ansatz passen wir gemeinsam mit Jugendlichen und weiteren relevanten Akteuren ein existierendes Training an die kontextspezifischen Bedarfe an. Mithilfe interaktiver Workshops, Gruppendiskussionen und Einzelinterviews untersuchen wir zunächst, welche Faktoren die Emotionsregulation sowie die Nutzung des Trainings beeinflussen. Anschließend wird das Training angepasst und im Rahmen einer cluster-randomisierten kontrollierten Studie auf seine Umsetzbarkeit, Wirkung und Akzeptanz geprüft.
Das Projekt wird in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Shamiri Institute (Kenia), der University of Dodoma (Tansania), der Africa Academy for Public Health (Tansania) und dem Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH) durchgeführt.
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MAISHA aims to develop and evaluate a culturally adapted approach to promoting adolescent mental health in East Africa. In close collaboration with young people in Kenya and Tanzania, we co-develop a hybrid training that combines digital and in-person elements. Using a human-centered design approach, we adapt an existing intervention to the specific needs and contexts of adolescents, together with youth and other key stakeholders. Through interactive workshops, focus group discussions, and individual interviews, we first explore factors that influence emotion regulation and engagement with the intervention. The adapted training is then evaluated in a cluster-randomized controlled trial to assess its feasibility, effectiveness, and acceptability.
The project is conducted in collaboration with the Shamiri Institute (Kenya), the University of Dodoma (Tanzania), the African Academy for Public Health (Tanzania), and the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH).
With MAISHA, we aim to contribute to the development of culturally sensitive approaches in mental health promotion and to create scalable solutions to support young people across diverse settings.
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Reininghaus U. EU - Europäische Union 945263: IMMERSE - The implementation of Digital Mobile Mental Health in clinical care pathways: Towards person-centered care in psychiatry.
The overarching aim of IMMERSE (Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe) is to advance the transformation of mental health care in Europe into true person-centered care, focused on the needs of each individual seeking help for mental health problems, while giving them an active role in their treatment process and decision-making. In order to do so, IMMERSE has identified the Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM), a structured diary technique, as the methodology that puts the service user at the heart of their treatment. IMMERSE will integrate 20 years of research evidence on ESM into an innovative, clinical digital health tool, Digital Mobile Mental Health (DMMH), in close collaboration with stakeholders and extending it with mobile sensing data and innovative machine learning models. DMMH consists of an ESM app, assessing self-reports of mental state in daily life (ecological momentary assessment, EMA), a data-platform that allows the analysis of these data, and dashboard for visualization and feedback. IMMERSE will thoroughly evaluate strategies, processes and outcomes of DMMH implementation in a cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (cRCT) at 8 sites in 4 countries in Europe representing different contexts for implementation evaluation. At the same time, IMMERSE will identify and overcome key barriers and strengthen facilitators for implementation, transfer and scale-up of DMMH to routine mental health clinical practice by closely collaborating with relevant stakeholders, aligning the innovative DMMH tool to their needs. Similarly, the diverse ethical, legal and policy challenges and requirements will be identified and DMMH will be developed and implemented accordingly. Finally, IMMERSE is set out to do a cost-benefit analysis of the implementation and present a framework for future implementation of DMMH, including forecasting scenarios, aiming at a further scale-up of DMMH across 4 countries in Europe and beyond. IMMERSE thus offers a unique potential to significantly innovate mental health care in Europe.