PHIT for duty, a mobile approach for psychological health intervention
Kizakevich, P.N.; Hubal, R.; Brown, J.; Lyden, J.; Spira, J.; Eckhoff, R.; Zhang, Y.; Bryant, S.; Munoz, G.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 181: 268-272
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 22954869 Document Number: 659597
The goal of this effort is to support prevention of psychological health problems through innovation in mobile personal health assessment and self-help intervention (SHI). For the U.S. military, we are developing and evaluating a field-deployable personalized application, PHIT for DutyTM, to help build resilience in healthy troops and support prevention in high-risk personnel. PHIT for Duty is delivered using any smartphone or tablet with optional nonintrusive physiological and behavioral sensors for health status monitoring. The application integrates a suite of health assessments with an intelligent advisor that recommends, tailors, and presents self-help advisories. PHIT for Duty is intended for secondary prevention of psychological health problems in persons who have been exposed to psychological trauma and may be showing some symptoms of distress, but have not been diagnosed with any psychological disease or disorder.