Second chance: Emotions management support mobile application / Muhammad Nur Aiman Rosmin

Emotional health is important for maintaining overall well-being. Nowadays, 500,000 Malaysians experienced depression symptoms and 424,000 children have emotional health problems and need to seek treatment from appropriate medical authorities. Early detection of mental health conditions is critical and there are some mobile applications offered to provide such services. However, most are foreign based and lack focus on unique demands in Malaysia case. The stigma in the society regarding mental health and factor of beliefs in cultural context makes us avoid seeking early detection as well as treatment as seeing a doctor is not something that everyone is comfortable with. Hence, having a medium to assess the emotions and vent the minds without any prejudice would be a huge help. Therefore, this project aims to develop a mobile application to provide a early assessment of emotional health to alert the users about their emotional conditions. The objectives are to identify user requirements, design and develop the Second Chance: Emotions Management Support Mobile Application. The scope targets young adults with emotional struggles. The Mobile Development Life Cycle (MADLC) method is used to develop the mobile application until the testing phase. The application allows users to perform computerised pre-emptive screening using the DASS-21 test. The application also provides a dashboard for emotion tracking through visualisation for user self-monitoring and options to call helplines and a directory list of hospitals that provide psychology and psychiatric services. Twenty young adults participated during user testing, which involved functionality task scenarios and the System Usability Scale (SUS). The recommendations for future work are to add more pre-emptive screening tests and develop on the iOS platform.