The Essential Network (TEN): rapid development and implementation of a digital-first mental health solution for Australian healthcare workers during COVID-19

IF 1.4 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES BMJ Innovations Pub Date : 2022-01-18 DOI:10.1136/bmjinnov-2021-000807
P. Baldwin, Melissa J Black, J. Newby, Lyndsay Brown, N. Scott, Tanya Shrestha, N. Cockayne, J. Tennant, S. Harvey, H. Christensen
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© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. INTRODUCTION The COVID19 pandemic has presented healthcare workers (HCWs) with extraordinary, unabating stress. International data suggest that frontline HCWs are at increased risk of poor mental health, with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) a significant concern. Early mental health treatment can lower the risk of HCWs developing more chronic and potentially disabling difficulties; however, many HCWs avoid seeking help due to concerns about stigma, 6 confidentiality and negative impacts on their employment. 8 HCWs urgently need accessible and effective mental health services that sidestep these systemic barriers. HCWspecific services must address the unique challenges of healthcare. During a pandemic, HCWs encounter unique stressors, such as fear of infecting their families or watching colleagues die, 10 and differ greatly in how they react to stress. Therefore, HCWs need a responsive, tailored mental health service that can address a range of concerns, from acute distress to moral injury and psychiatric disorders like PTSD. 4 Another challenge is delivering such personalised services at the required scale in the context of an ongoing pandemic. With tens of millions of HCWs across the globe, researchers have called for selfguided mental health tools for HCWs than can be rapidly scaled. Existing national healthcarefocused services have recommended streamlined triage for HCWs with fasttracking into persontoperson treatments. Only technologydriven solutions can service these needs while rapidly adapting and scaling during a crisis. A diverse anthology of patientfocused digital mental health interventions 17 have paved the way for multichannel digital hubs, such as Learn, Assess, Manage, Prevent, that can both personalise and centralise scalable care across states and even international borders. Yet despite these global innovations, few such services for HCWs exist Summary box
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BMJ Innovations
BMJ Innovations Medicine-Medicine (all)
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期刊介绍: Healthcare is undergoing a revolution and novel medical technologies are being developed to treat patients in better and faster ways. Mobile revolution has put a handheld computer in pockets of billions and we are ushering in an era of mHealth. In developed and developing world alike healthcare costs are a concern and frugal innovations are being promoted for bringing down the costs of healthcare. BMJ Innovations aims to promote innovative research which creates new, cost-effective medical devices, technologies, processes and systems that improve patient care, with particular focus on the needs of patients, physicians, and the health care industry as a whole and act as a platform to catalyse and seed more innovations. Submissions to BMJ Innovations will be considered from all clinical areas of medicine along with business and process innovations that make healthcare accessible and affordable. Submissions from groups of investigators engaged in international collaborations are especially encouraged. The broad areas of innovations that this journal aims to chronicle include but are not limited to: Medical devices, mHealth and wearable health technologies, Assistive technologies, Diagnostics, Health IT, systems and process innovation.
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