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Applied Research Innovation and Service Evaluation

Strength WithIn Me App (SWIM app)

The NHS Five Year Forward View recommended the creation of Global Digital Exemplars to support NHS quality improvement and sustainability.

Mersey Care is one of seven Trusts in England to be a Global Digital Exemplars with a commitment to uses digital technologies and information to deliver quality, care improvements.

The SWiM project represents a collaboration between ARISE and Stanford Risk Authority which seeks to use mobile telephone technology to support service uses to identify and manage their personal risk of self-harm and suicide.

The initial feasibility and proof on concept project phase has been successfully completed, the results of which have been disseminated to both national and international audiences. A pilot evaluation is now being planned.

List of publications:

  • Haines, A., Chahal, G., Bruen, A., Wall, A., Khan, C.T., Fearnley, D. (n.d.) Predicting Suicidal Risk through Machine Learning with Phone Measurements as Proxies to Clinical Counterparts. Paper submitted for publication in Journal of Medical Research (JMIR) mHealth and uHealth.
  • Haines, A., Bruen, A.J., Wall, A., Chahal, G., & Khan, C.T. (2018). Testing viability of machine learning in predicting suicidal risk via smartphone proxies: the SWiM Study, UK arm. Poster presented at the Conference on Crisis, Coercion and Intensive Treatment in Psychiatry (CCITP), 18-19 October 2018, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • (in preparation) Wall, A., Bruen, A., Perkins, E., Haines, A. (n.d) The practicalities and acceptability of setting up a trial involving mobile technology and mental health service users: preventing suicide using an innovative mobile app - Strength Within Me (SWiM).