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Let's work togetherXploro - Empowering Young Patients with Information
Key Aims:
Xploro is a digital platform that bridges the healthcare information gap for young children, with the goal to transform the healthcare experience for children and their families. D4D worked with Xploro, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health to design a series of materials for younger adults between the ages of 16 and 20 to explore if Xploro can be adapted to different age ranges.
Read morePatient and Care-partner Needs
- Mental health problems adversely impact quality of life and self-management across all clinical themes leading to detrimental societal and economic consequences
- Common mental disorders (CMD) such as depression and anxiety problems often coexist with neurological and chronic health conditions
- The point-prevalence of CMD is 16%, and this increases to 20-45% for people with neurological disorders, 40% for renal disease, and 30% for diabetes
- Mental health problems adversely impact quality of life, functioning, and self-management across all clinical themes and have detrimental societal and economic consequences
- In the UK, the cost of CMD reaches £1.7 billion per year in healthcare, benefits, and lost productivity, projected to reach £3 billion per year by 2026
- Only 1 in 2 people with CMD are likely to recover after psychological or pharmacological treatment, and this reduces to around 1 in 3 people with inter-related Long-term Conditions (iLTC)
Our Vision
- Create personalised and iLTC-focused psychological support for people with chronic health problems to improve mental health and overall functioning
- Developing and testing Health Technologies that are accessible and easy-to-use for people with iLTC, taking a highly personalised approach
- Address inequalities relating to poverty and those from minority populations where digital provision may not be in their language, or an issue is taboo and therefore hidden, and where face-to-face services are under-accessed or hard to access
- Accelerate the development and clinical field-testing of digital HealthTech and blended care interventions to improve mental health, quality of life, social and occupational functioning in people with iLTC
Our Approach
- Prevention and intervention packages will be co-produced with industry partners, collaborators across all other themes, and with PPIE/EDI activity as a central driver to generate personalised and needs-based technologies and interventions
- Work with the relevant patient and carer groups, charities, and clinical services to ascertain key priorities
- Apply evidence-based behaviour change methodologies to optimise patients’ adherence to digital health interventions and their effective implementation into everyday coping and condition management
- Produce new scalable digital health technologies, which have potential for widespread implementation in the NHS and in the wider international market of healthcare providers
- Support the innovation, validation, and regulation of medical devices, implementation, and scientific evaluation of digital health technologies ready for export to other healthcare environments and markets
