A collaborative effort between a Lakehead University researcher, Children's Centre Thunder Bay, and Dilico Anishinabek Family Care is receiving $100,000 in funding to evaluate the effective of an app to support mental health in young adults.
Although, the JoyPop app is geared toward youth in their teens, Mushquash examined the app’s benefits for young adults who are transitioning into post-secondary school. “With each additional day that those transitional youths used the app, they see a corresponding improvement in terms of their symptom of depression and in terms of their emotion regulation skill. So, their ability to understand their emotions, make sense of their emotions, and manage their emotions in effective ways. We see corresponding improvements in those skills the more they use the app across a month we tested them,” Mushquash said.
Based on that feedback from participants in the pilot and from the clinicians who offer it to the youth they were counselling led Mushquash to apply for additional funding.
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