Efficacy of mental well-being interventions provided by CheckingIn, a smart device application

Smart device applications show great promise as a means to improve the mental health and well-being
of users. CheckingIn is one such app. CheckingIn monitors self-reported daily mood states of users and
suggests exercises to improve user’s mental health and well-being. Although the app’s well-being programs are
scientifically informed, there is a general lack of research investigating how effective such apps are in improving
mental health. Therefore, CheckingIn requires more research to examine the effectiveness of their app’s mental
health programs. The goal of the present project is to evaluate changes in the mental health of application users
after completing CheckingIn’s 30-day well-being program. In doing so CheckingIn will be able to determine how
effective the program is. The results should ultimately improve the quality of well-being programs provided to
application users.

Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Kingstone

Student:

Partner:

CheckingIn

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: