Developing a new digital mental health assessment for the general population

The SiSU Health Team are delighted to report the publication in the British Medical Journal (BMJ Open) of the paper, "Digital self-report instruments for repeated measurement of mental health in the general adult population: a protocol for a systematic review", by Zhao Hui Koh, Jason Skies and Greg Murray. Guided by the question: What is the optimal operationalisation of mental health in the context of digital delivery of assessment and repeated measurement in the general population? The PhD sponsored by SiSU Health and the Digital Health CRC seeks to develop a new, market leading mental health digital instrument to be integrated into our health stations and online portal. 

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"Introduction Digital technologies present tremendous opportunities for enabling long-term measurement of mental health in the general population. Emerging studies have established preliminary efficacy of collecting self-report data digitally. However, a key challenge when developing a new self-report instrument is navigating the abundance of existing instruments to select relevant constructs for measurements. This review is a precursor to developing a novel future integrated digital instrument for repeated measurements. We interrogate the literature as the first step towards optimal measurement of the multifaceted mental health concept, in the context of digital repeated measurement. This review aims to identify (1) digital self-report instruments administered repeatedly to measure the mental health of the general adult population; (2) their structure and format; (3) their psychometric properties; (4) their usage in empirical studies; and (5) the constructs these instruments were designed to measure (as characterised in the original publication), and the constructs the instruments have been used to measure in the identified empirical studies"