The STAND Wellness Resource newly re-envisions Tier 1 STAND content and optimizes it for the MyDataHelps app.
The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge is piloting a new platform for delivering STAND content with its rollout of the STAND Wellness Resource on July 15, 2024. The new public resource features Tier 1/Wellness content from the STAND content library and is hosted on the MyDataHelps app.
The idea of testing the new platform with the Wellness content was inspired by conversations between DGC leadership and UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services in advance of New Student Orientation. CAPS routinely promotes the STAR program, including during its designated panels during new UCLA student orientation. But given that STAR is open only to enrolled students, orientation-goers must wait and remember to use the promoted resource in Fall — weeks or months after having heard about it at orientation.
While discussing this dilemma, the DGC team saw a win-win opportunity. The DGC was already exploring new content delivery platforms for STAND — they could pilot test a new platform while simultaneously rolling out wellness programming accessible to incoming Bruins.
After a two-month, full-scale effort to amend and transfer the necessary STAND content, the STAND Wellness Resource newly re-envisions previous Tier 1 STAND content and optimizes it for the MyDataHelps app. Lessons — five in total — were simplified and organized such that users can engage with the content in 15-minute segments, down from as much as an hour in other STAND implementations. The STAND Wellness Resource also features lesson personalization features, integration of lesson “tools,” and notification and reminder programming.
The STAND Wellness Resource is available to anyone interested via the MyDataHelps website or app. To provide user feedback on the app and lessons, fill out the feedback form that you will find after you enroll.
The Screening and Treatment for Anxiety and Depression (STAND) program is an all-in-one, end-to-end system of care which includes screening, treatment and ongoing monitoring of mood and symptoms. A key feature of the STAND system of care is the triaging of participants to a level of care fit for their symptoms, with two of the three levels of care delivered via digital STAND content. The program, first conceptualized in 2017, now is implemented in various formats in a variety of settings and communities, serving as a model that can be adapted for differing societal factors. The STAND Wellness Resource is a pilot exploration of one solution to enable the DGC to administer multiple STAND implementations and increase delivery personalization.
