Integrating mental wellness and brain wellness assessment/advice on SiSU stations

Opportunity 

Existing mental health assessment tools used in healthcare are often fragmented, condition-specific, or not designed for ongoing digital self-monitoring across the general population.  

SiSU health check stations have great potential to reach people who don’t tend to utilise face-to-face services. These internet-enabled medical devices allow individuals to undertake a free, self-service health assessment. However, currently assessments are only available for physical conditions.  

Swinburne University of Technology teamed up with health tech company SiSU to develop a robust and scalable personalised mental health assessment tool that would be suitable for integration into SiSU health check stations. 

Project Objectives  

Researchers working on this project aimed to develop an evidence-based, empowerment-oriented mental health assessment tool, ready to be embedded into SiSU’s existing health self-assessment portals, by:  

• Reviewing and evaluating existing mental health measurement instruments 
• Building a comprehensive and standardised mental health item bank suitable for repeated digital assessment 
• Designing and validating an adaptive survey to support personalised mental health assessment 
• Creating a working prototype of this mental health assessment that could potentially be integrated into SiSU health check stations.