Depression condition test using mobile application / Siti Azizah Abas

Nowadays, much of clinical psychologist work has focused on treating individuals with depression. From day to day, much mobile application has being developed. Despite the growing number of mental health applications available for smartphones, the perceived usability of these applications from the perspectives of end users or health care experts has rarely been reported even it is vital. The objective of the project is to design systems that can analyses user depression condition so that users know their condition. Then, this project also develop a system that can assists people to practice some techniques to overcome some of the symptoms then lead them to get some help. Besides, this study also gets an approval from a few experts to make sure it is sufficient and effective to the target user. It was observed that much clinical psychologist work has focused on training individuals with depression nowadays. Depression is not diseases that can be detected easily even by a closest people and the worst thing it can lead to suicide. This project is focus on 18 to 25 years old user that needs to know their depression condition. This project use mobile application platform as it is the most famous platform among teenagers at that range. Other than that, an agile methodology has been implemented in this project as a guideline. The result from this study shows that it can be used by the teenagers and can motivate user to seek for help from an expert.