Introduction
Internet-Delivered Psychological Treatment System (IDPT) is a web application designed for online Intervention.
What is an IDPT system?
A framework for creating adaptive Internet-Delivered Psychological Treatment (IDPT) Systems
Internet-Delivered Psychological Treatment (IDPT) systems refer to any software applications that facilitate interaction with psychological therapy through the Internet. These mainly include web-applications, mobile applications, augmented reality, and virtual reality applications.
IDPT has surfaced and grown as one of the most commonly practiced and widely researched forms of psychotherapy. The evolution of IDPT, coupled with the exponential growth of Internet access throughout the world, has the potential to reshape the landscape of mental healthcare. Despite evolution in IDPT, several patients suffering from mental health issues go untreated. Obstacles to receiving treatment for mental health problems include long waiting lists, limited access to psychiatric medications, perceived stigma of seeking help, and treatment costs. IDPT systems have been proposed as one solution to bridge this treatment gap. IDPT removes several barriers over traditional face-to-face therapy that hinders the majority of patients from efficient psychiatric care. The use of IDPT tools can enhance patient health in several ways: 1) IDPT can be available and accessible from anywhere with an Internet connection; 2) the temporal aspects of access can be substantially improved; 3) the scalability of IDPT can drastically enhance the functional capacity of the care; 4) makes the treatment cost-effective for individuals who do not have insurance or can not afford the out-of-pocket fees for treatment, and 5) removes the discomfort and the stigma related issues associated with the face-to-face approaches.
Features
Create several cases
Create modules
Create tasks and assignments
Create users with roles (admin, therapists, patients)
Patient view
Create and assign taxonomy for each entities (Case, Module, Task)
We envision to create IDPT system that enhances user interaction and increases user adherence. To do so, we rely on building comprehensive user profiling. This prototype is an early stage of what we envision. However, we made this project open-source to increase user support in development, testing, and extension. This open-source framework can be used for creating any healthcare interventions. We envision that we can get enough support from both industry and academic partners to modularize this project as an aggregation of plugins.
DEMO
Our demo application is hosted at a Heroku and uses a free package. It takes a couple of seconds to fire up the server, so be patient. The demo can be reached at:
Happy Coding!
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