Efficacy of two 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 either of CheckingIn’s new 30-day mindfulness programs. In doing so CheckingIn will be able to determine how effective the programs are. The results will ultimately improve the quality of well-being programs provided to application users.

Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Kingstone

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Partner:

CheckingIn

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

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