Symposia
Telehealth/m-Health
Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Ph.D.
Professor
Universitat Jaume I
Castellon, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Cristina Botella, Ph.D.
Professor
Universitat Jaume I
Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Amanda Diaz-Garcia, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Universidad de Zaragoza
Teruel, Aragon, Spain
Guadalupe Molinari, PhD
Senior Researcher
CIBER Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion. Spain
valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Carlos Suso-Ribera, PhD
Assistant Professor
Universitat Jaume I
12071 (Castellón, Spain), Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Rosa Baños, PhD
Full professor
University of Valencia
Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Edward Watkins, PhD
Full professor
University of Exeter
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Mental health problems like depression and anxiety have an important negative impact in quality of life. This has been even more evident due to the Covid-19 crisis. One of the lines of research to decrease the burden of emotional disorders is mental disorder prevention for young people by enhancing their emotion regulation abilities to cope with adversities. Although there are effective mental well-being promotion and mental disorder prevention interventions for young people, there is a need for theoretically-driven more effective interventions, and for approaches that can be scalable and accessible at a population level. To tackle these challenges and move beyond the state-of-the-art, the ECoWeB Project (funded by the European Commission, Horizon 2020, 754657) aims to improve mental health promotion by developing, evaluating, and disseminating a comprehensive mobile app to assess deficits in three major components of Emotional Competence (EC) (production, regulation, and knowledge) and to selectively augment pertinent EC abilities in adolescents and young adults. The EC intervention has been tested in two cohort multiple randomized trials with young people from four European countries (United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, and Germany) against a usual care control and an established, non-personalized socio-emotional learning digital intervention. In this presentation we will describe the App-based intervention and present the strategies we followed in the recruitment process using different dissemination activities (social media, advertisements, etc.). Building directly from a fundamental understanding of emotion in combination with a personalized approach and digital technology is a novel and innovative approach, with potential to deliver a breakthrough in effective prevention of mental disorder.