Shaping the Design of Smartphone-Based Interventions for Self-Harm

TY - GEN

T1 - Shaping the Design of Smartphone-Based Interventions for Self-Harm

AU - Honary, Mahsa

AU - Bell, Beth

AU - Clinch, Sarah

AU - Vega, Julio

AU - Kroll, Leo

AU - Sefi, Aaron

AU - McNaney, Roisin

N1 - Funding Information: The authors thank all study participants for participating in this study. In particular, 42nd Street for supporting participant recruitment and hosting the workshops. This research was funded by the EPSRC-NIHR NewMind Network Plus. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 ACM.

PY - 2020/4/21

Y1 - 2020/4/21

N2 - Self-harm is a prevalent issue amongst young people, yet it is thought around 40% will never seek professional help due to stigma surrounding it. It is generally a way of coping with emotional distress and can have a range of triggers which are highly heterogeneous to the individual. In a move towards enhancing the accessibility of personalized interventions for self-harm, we undertook a three-stage study. We first conducted interviews with 4 counsellors in self-harm to understand how they clinically respond to self-harm triggers. We then ran a survey with 37 young people, to explore perceptions of mobile sensing, and current and future uses for smartphone-based interventions. Finally, we ran a workshop with 11 young people to further explore how a context-aware self-management application might be used to support them. We contribute an in-depth understanding of how triggers for self-harm might be identified and subsequently predicted and prevented using mobile-sensing technology.

AB - Self-harm is a prevalent issue amongst young people, yet it is thought around 40% will never seek professional help due to stigma surrounding it. It is generally a way of coping with emotional distress and can have a range of triggers which are highly heterogeneous to the individual. In a move towards enhancing the accessibility of personalized interventions for self-harm, we undertook a three-stage study. We first conducted interviews with 4 counsellors in self-harm to understand how they clinically respond to self-harm triggers. We then ran a survey with 37 young people, to explore perceptions of mobile sensing, and current and future uses for smartphone-based interventions. Finally, we ran a workshop with 11 young people to further explore how a context-aware self-management application might be used to support them. We contribute an in-depth understanding of how triggers for self-harm might be identified and subsequently predicted and prevented using mobile-sensing technology.

KW - co-design

KW - intervention

KW - mental health

KW - mobile sensing

KW - non-suicidal self-injury

KW - self-harm

KW - situation-aware app

KW - trust

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091311942&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3313831.3376370

DO - 10.1145/3313831.3376370

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85091311942

T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

BT - CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

PB - ACM

T2 - 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020

Y2 - 25 April 2020 through 30 April 2020

ER -