Active Assistance for Psychological Therapy 2.0 (Actissist 2.0): Digital Intervention for Co-producing care in psychosis.

Lead Research Organisation: University of Manchester
Department Name: School of Health Sciences

Abstract

Severe mental health problems (SMI) such as schizophrenia affect 24 million people worldwide. Schizophrenia is a severe form of psychosis - a general term that describes a change in people's behaviour, thinking and feelings. Psychosis affects people's ability to socialise, work and carry out the tasks of daily life. It usually begins in early adulthood. First episode psychosis is the first time someone experiences these changes. Most people with psychosis have more than one episode of psychosis, so people are at risk of long-term problems. The time after a first episode of psychosis is critical for a person's long-term recovery. This makes the early phase of psychosis an important time for treatment. The longer the delay in treating psychosis, the worse the illness becomes. The delivery of efficient and timely talking treatments for psychosis is a serious challenge in the current NHS climate. Traditional ways of offering therapy through face-to-face appointments can effect how efficiently treatment can be offered. We need increased availability and new, timely ways of delivering therapy when it is needed. Smartphones are now affordable and popular and are one way we can successfully deliver treatment safely and at point-of-need.

Grounded in psychological theory and principles, we have developed a Smartphone app called Actissist that people can access anywhere, at the time they need it. In our previous research, we showed that people with early psychosis completed the app swiftly in their daily life over 12 weeks. We also showed that people liked using the app and that it was safe to use. The study we propose for this application is the next step along the research pathway. We aim to improve and test the benefits of our digital intervention by giving it to 75 early psychosis patients. We will compare outcomes with 75 people who use a different app (called ClinTouch), which just monitors psychosis and mood symptoms but does not provide self-managed therapy. Which app people get will be determined by chance so that the treatment can be compared in similar groups of people. Based on our previous work, we hope that Actissist will improve symptoms and other important areas of people's lives. We hope to gain a better understanding of how we can use digital technology to help provide day-to-day care. Finally, we hope that the Actissist app will empower people to self-manage their symptoms and therapy.

Our overarching goal is to transform community care for severe mental health conditions and to give individuals more choice about how they receive healthcare and interact with services. By doing this, we hope to reduce the number of episodes of psychosis people have or at least keep these to a minimum. We will do this by translating psychological ideas and strategies into a user-friendly digital intervention that will be delivered through a Smartphone, which most people own and enjoy using. By doing this, we hope that we can help people notice if they are becoming unwell at an earlier point than if they relied on attending a mental health service. We hope that this will improve people's daily lives and keep them out of hospital. This study will provide patients, services and commissioners with information about different ways people can receive healthcare. We would like to make helpful treatments more accessible and provide choice about how therapy is delivered. Our vision is to give people a greater sense of control over their mental health and wellbeing, support the speed and quality of recovery over and above drug treatments while sustaining functional outcomes, and to support self-management.

Technical Summary

Severe mental illness (SMI) such as schizophrenia affects 24 million people worldwide, with societal costs estimated at nearly £12bn in England. Onset typically occurs in early adulthood and up to 80% relapse within 5-years, resulting in unscheduled acute care and adverse effects on psychosocial development. The main treatment for psychosis is medication and psychosocial interventions. Currently, the delivery of psychosocial interventions for psychosis by scheduled appointment can result in psychosis relapse indicators either being missed or treated too late. There is a need for innovative, timely, efficient and cost-effective solutions to improve the speed and quality of recovery in psychosis, over and above conventional drug and psychosocial treatments. The NHS has a clear digital agenda for addressing mental health challenges, aiming to fully harness the information technology revolution, and self-management in long-term conditions is a cornerstone of NHS policy. Smartphones offer an unprecedented opportunity to drive improvements in treatment quality, efficiency, cost, access and facilitate self-management. Supported by MRC DPFS funding (MR/L005301/1), we have developed a user-informed, personalised, smartphone app, Actissist, that delivers a theory-driven psychological intervention that is unconstrained by traditional service settings. We have shown that patients complete the intervention swiftly in the course of daily life over 12-weeks and that this technology is feasible, safe and acceptable. The primary aim of the current proposal, Actissist 2.0, is to refine the software and conduct an efficacy study in psychosis. Actissist 2.0 supports active shared decision-making about treatment. Results will inform a future Phase III effectiveness trial and shape where digital interventions fit on the healthcare pathway, including opportunities for commercial partnerships.

Planned Impact

This project directly impacts vulnerable individuals with psychosis, their families/wider community, the scientific community, and addresses national government policies.

The Schizophrenia Commission (2012) found that early intervention in psychosis has the potential to save the NHS £119m, with £125m saving for the Exchequer over three years. Currently, the cost of treating relapsing psychosis is 4-times that of stable psychosis. Despite the rise of community care, 70% of the costs of severe mental health problems (SMI) are on unplanned inpatient care for relapse. Even if hospital admissions are reduced by 10%, cost savings to the NHS will be significant. As the early course of psychosis is sharply predictive of longer-term course of illness, timely, effective, accessible and affordable interventions have the potential to prevent the development of more serious forms of psychosis, such as schizophrenia.

Impacting patients: The proposed programme of research has the potential to benefit help-seeking SMI patients by scaling up the provision of, and timely access to, self-managed therapy by delivering treatment at the point-of-need at an earlier point than is otherwise possible within conventional service settings. In this trial, 150 patients will have access to the digital intervention we have developed and seek to refine. We will aim to recruit participants as widely as possible to give as many individuals as possible the opportunity to participate in the study. Currently, there are no other theory-driven apps for psychosis in the local area. Conducting this project and gathering scientific data will help optimise implementation and increase the likelihood that the intervention will be scaled up nationally. We will set up an expert reference group and conduct network meetings to strengthen community networks.

NHS clinicians: Clinicians and services will also benefit. Clinicians will be able to use Actissist as an adjunct to routine clinical assessments and treatment delivery. For example, representations of momentary data will allow for ecologically-valid psychological formulations to be developed in clinician-led therapy. The app will also facilitate shared decision-making, a priority identified in the Schizophrenia Commission Report (2012).

Impacting participating services for adoption: Adoption of the intervention will be highly dependent on staff, service and commissioner engagement. We will liaise closely with local managers and commissioners throughout the project to discuss potential implementation strategies. Data gathered from our proof-of-concept trial and in further qualitative work will help us identify barriers/facilitators to implementation, including how the intervention works in specific contexts (e.g. service setting).

Impacting policy: Self-management is a cornerstone of NHS policy. Our proposal addresses established NHS England priorities in the area of SMI treatment policy. Findings will inform: i) the "Five Year Forward View", which identified a clear direction for addressing mental health challenges such as delivering efficient and good quality SMI care; ii) NICE guidelines for schizophrenia and psychoses, in terms of how we can utilise and optimise self-management and treatment choice on the healthcare pathway; iii) Department of Health (2016) mandate for early intervention service access and waiting times for a NICE-approved treatment package; iv) NHS digital agenda - NHS England is committed to sustain implementation efforts using innovative technologies, providing affordable, available healthcare for SMI patients.

All SMI patients have the potential to benefit from timely, available and accessible self-management via our Smartphone technology platform. The path we establish will be reusable by subsequent developers of digital interventions and will therefore have a significant impact on the scientific and technology communities.
 
Title Characters (Avatars) 
Description Avatars created by Barney Ibbotson and licensed to University of Manchester Actissist 2.0 for use within project and app. 
Type Of Art Artwork 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Nil 
 
Title Patient recovery stories 
Description 2 patient recovery videos developed with thanks to a University of Manchester Public Engagement grant. PPI groups run with our expert reference group. Natalie Berry and Elizabeth Lewis and Annie Faulds (RAs) worked with the UoM media department to create these videos (IP owned by University of Manchester) 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Nil 
 
Description CONNECT: Digital remote monitoring for psychosis
Amount £6,500,000 (GBP)
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2022 
End 10/2027
 
Description NIHR RfPB Grant: Dawn-P
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Manchester 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 07/2025
 
Description Research Harmonisation Award
Amount € 5,000 (EUR)
Organisation Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) 
Sector Academic/University
Country Global
Start 08/2021 
End 08/2023
 
Description i-Minds: A digital intervention to improve mental health and interpersonal resilience for young people who have experienced online sexual abuse - a non-randomised feasibility study with a mixed-methods design
Amount £850,060 (GBP)
Funding ID NIHR131848 
Organisation National Institute for Health Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2021 
End 07/2023
 
Title Qualitative Analysis Method 
Description Framework Analysis used ot analyse qualitative data 
Type Of Material Data analysis technique 
Year Produced 2019 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Nil impact 
 
Title SPSS Database established 
Description Baseline, 12 week and 24 week SPSS databases established 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2018 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Nil impact 
 
Title Software to analyse real-time compliance data 
Description System designed and used to capture and analyse compliance with multiple, real-time data points sent via the Actissist app. 
Type Of Material Data handling & control 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact N/A 
 
Title Software code for Actissist app 
Description Software code and Know-how created for the Actissist app 
IP Reference  
Protection Trade Mark
Year Protection Granted 2019
Licensed No
Impact Background IP generated in MRC-funded Actissist 1 grant: softare code, clinical content and know-how. Foreground IP developed in Actissist 2.0 grant: software code, clinical content and know-how. Actissist Logo - generated from Actissist 1. UI design work on app: IP owned by University of Manchester.
 
Title Software code transferred to spin-out company 
Description Actissist software code and know-how transferred to UoM spin-out company CareLoop Health Ltd. 
IP Reference  
Protection Trade Mark
Year Protection Granted 2023
Licensed Yes
Impact Company structure in place for spin-out company with share agreement and business plan.
 
Title Actissist software application 
Description Funded by MRC Biomedical catalyst DPFS, we have developed a CBT-informed software application that prompts users to respond to question/exchange answers regarding key areas that predict psychosis relapse. Foreground IP has been developed. 
Type Therapeutic Intervention - Medical Devices
Current Stage Of Development Refinement. Clinical
Year Development Stage Completed 2015
Development Status Under active development/distribution
Impact N/A 
 
Title Actissist app 
Description The Actissist app was reviewed by ORCHA and is available on the App Store and Google Play Store 
Type Of Technology New/Improved Technique/Technology 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Downloads from app stores 
 
Title Actissist software app continued 
Description Foreground IP created from background Actissist app. New features in the app created in this grant. New software code generated. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact V1 of app released 2018. V2 of app released November 2018. V3 of app released April 2019. 
 
Company Name CareLoop Health 
Description CareLoop Health develops an app and text-based system for self-reporting of symptoms by people with serious mental illness (SMI), aiming to improve community-based care and early clinical intervention. 
Year Established 2021 
Impact Deploying remote monitoring technology in South West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Website https://www.careloop.health/
 
Company Name Affigo C.I.C. 
Description  
Year Established 2015 
Impact We have secured around £86,000 in social enterprise awards to help develop a business plan to ensure Affigo CIC is a viable company. We are in the process of discussing IP assignment with the University of Manchester and getting our first sale within the NHS market.
 
Description 'What psychologists do' Public Engagement event, University of Manchester 25 March 2019 
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Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Stand and talk at What do Psychological Scientists Do public engagement event with local schools
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Actissist 2.0 Press Releases 
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Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Actissist 2.0 Website 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact Actissist 2.0 website developed to promote Actissist study.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/actissist/
 
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Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009,2018
 
Description Beckfest Conference 10-11 May, Oxford University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Open paper on the findings of the Actissist 1 trial and how these have influenced the Actissist 2.0 trial design
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Digital mental health in China 
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Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave an invited workshop on digital mental health in Beijing, China a the Sixth International Psychiatry and Psychology Conference, Anding Hospital
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar Series with Matt Machin, Software Engineer. "The inter-section of clinical psychology and software engineering: an example of successful inter-disciplinary working".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description ESRI Conference, Dublin, 19 April 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Actissist open paper at the ESRI European digital health conference in Dublin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Established advisory group for Actissist 2.0 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact We have established a patient advisory group to meet quarterly throughout the life of the Actissist 2.0 trial to help refine and co-design our apps for severe mental health problems
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description GMMH, 23 May 2019 Rawnsley Building Actissist presentation to staff /clinicians 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk on digital mental health (including update on Actissist 2.0work) at local GMMH research network event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Global E-Mental Health Conference, Newcastle Australia 22-23 November 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invite and expenses paid Keynote address at the Global e-health conference, Newcastle Australia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description IEPA Conference Boston (Digital symposium) 08-10 October 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Digital mental health symposium - Actissist presentation - IEPA Confernece, Boston USA
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Interview for University of Manchester News 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview on Actissist and Digital Mental Health with comms department at University of Manchester
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Interview, Bassajamba, on digital mental health for local radio 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed by Reina Yadoo for local radio - Digital Mental Health
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited Keynote - ClinPsyD Presentation Day 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited to give the keynote address at the Manchester clinical psychology doctorate conference day
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited Talk: Results of the Actissist 2 trial 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited talk at the 2021 Beckfest (Invited meeting) on the results of the Actissist: Active Assistance for Psychological Therapy 2 trial.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited keynote speaker at Beckfest 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A keynote on the Actissist intervention at the Beckfest conference on CBT for psychosis.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited symposium: Digital Mental Health in Early Intervention for Psychosis symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited speaker in an accepted symposium at the 2021 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, Florence, Italy (Virtual Conference; April 2021). Digital Mental Health in Early Intervention for Psychosis symposium. Title of talk: "Use of mobile apps in psychosis research".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited talk at Orygen monthyl seminar, Melbourne, 9 August 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited talk on Actissist at Orygen monthly seminar series
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Invited talk at national conference - Beckfest 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited to present the Actissist 2.0 at an invited only international meeting over two days in Oxford, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Invited talk: Keynote address on Digital Interventions in Severe Mental Disorders. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact •Invited to give a Keynote address at the European Congress of Psychiatry, Florence, Italy (Virtual Conference; April, 2021) on the topic Digital Interventions in Severe Mental Disorders.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited to write a blog for the Digital Mental Health IEPA Network - August 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact Invited to write a blog for IEPA social media site on Digital Mental Health and the work of Actissist
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description MQ Data Sciences Panel Member 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited Expert Panel Member. MQ Data Sciences Meeting, September 2018, London, UK. Panel Expert: "Changing lives through mental health data science - What are the challenges and opportunities ahead?"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description MRC Podcast for Acrtissist 2.0 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact MRC talks episode podcast.
We bring you the second of two episodes highlighting research helping young people affected by poor mental health.

One of the ways MRC-funded researchers are doing this, is through the use of digital technology. Scientists from the University of Manchester have developed a smartphone app to help people with psychosis. Hasina Sacranie talks to clinical psychologist and Senior Lecturer Dr Sandra Bucci about how she and her team developed the app.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://soundcloud.com/the_mrc/mrc-talks-episode-12-sandra-bucci
 
Description MedInfo World Congress, Lyon, France, 25-30 August 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Open paper at MedInfo conference co-presented by Matthew Machin (Actissist technical lead) and Sandra Bucci on development of Actissist app form both a clinical and technical aspect
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description NRS Mental Health Network, Glasgow, 29 October 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited to give a talk (expenses paid) on the Digital Therapeutic Alliance, NRS Mental Health Network, Glasgow, Scotland
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PANSS Training Bolton Early Intervention Team 03/10/2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PANSS Training to Bolton EIS and discussion / recruitment to Actissist 2.0 trial
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PANSS Training Stockport Early Intervention Team 06/03/2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PANSS Training to Stockport EIS and discussion / recruitment to Actissist 2.0 trial
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PANSS Training Stockport Early Intervention Team 24/07/2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PANSS Training to Stockport EIS and discussion/ recruitment to Actissist 2.0 trial
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PANSS Training, Rochdale EIS 12/10/2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PANSS Training to Rochdale EIS team and recruitment / discussion about service users taking part in Actissist 2.0 trial
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PANSS Training, Tameside EIS, 29/08/2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact RAS delivered PANSS training and discussed recruitment and participation in Actissist 2.0 trial
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description PGR Research Conference - Keynote Address, University of Manchester, 08 June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact keynote address at the PGR annual research day, University of Manchester: The future of Digital Mental Health
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Pint of Science @ Pie and Ale (Northern Quarter), 15 May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact public engagement event delivered by Actissist Research Associate to the general public
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentations at local mental health service meetings 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I have given a series of talks about the Actissist 2.0 trial at various mental health service meetings across two local Trusts to promote the Actissist 2.0 trial and provide education and information about digital mental health solutions to mental healthcare.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Public Engagement Grant-UoM 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact We received a PE grant from UoM to engage with service users and stakeholders ot create 2 patient recovery story videos to be included in the Actissist app
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Royal Holloway, University of London seminar to the Health and Wellbeing Group 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited talk at Royal Holloway, University of London seminar to the Health and Wellbeing Group
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description SIRS Conference - Actissist / ClinTouch 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact international Schizophrenia Conference (SIRS, Florence) - Professor Lewis have an open paper describing the trial findings from the ClinTouch and Actissist trials to an international audience of academics, clinical academics, clinicians, service users and PGR students (and other audience members)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Society for Mental Health Research (SMHR) Conference, Noosa, Australia 28-30 November 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited and expenses paid Keynote address: SMHR Conference, Noosa, Australia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Technology meets psychology talk, Division of Psychology and Mental Health monthly seminar, UoM 16/01/2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Sandra Bucci and Matthew Machin, Actissist technical lead, gave a talk at DPMH monthly seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Top 30 women in healthcare 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact I was named in the top 30 women in Healthcare by EU Pharmaceuticals magazine and received media press within the University about this award
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description University of Melbourne Digital Therapeutic Alliance symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 8 August 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited and expenses paid Keynote address at the University of Melbourne Digital Therapeutic Alliance seminar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies Conference, Berlin, 18 July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Actissist talk, digital mental health at WCBT conference, Berlin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Youtube Video-Actissist app 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Advertising Actissist app.
A team of researchers led by Dr Sandra Bucci have developed an app that helps people with early stages of psychosis. Results from the proof-of-concept trial have been promising.

The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health delivers high quality education and training for health professionals and life scientists. We have a global reputation for research with real-world impact beyond the lab.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1mtCAoVPYc