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| Project title: | Development of a new computer-assisted assessment tool for measuring and monitoring mental health outcomes of adolescents in the context of the post-COVID pandemic |
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| Project short title: | CAAT |
| Number of project implementation agreement: | VPP-VM-Sabiedrības_Veselība-2023/6-0002 |
| Registration number: | 4847 |
| Department: | Institute of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering |
| Administrating department: | . |
| Finance fund: | Valsts pētījumu programmas |
| Project RTU role: | project partner |
| Status: | In implementation |
| Project start date: | 21.12.2023. |
| Project end date: | 21.12.2025. |
| Title of grant issuer: | Latvijas Zinātnes padome |
| General manager: | Ingars Steiks |
| Administrative manager: | Anete Rutka |
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| 400 000 EUR | |
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In Latvia, the mental health of the population has been one of the highlights of public health in recent years. Its importance has grown particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when society has faced a variety of challenges that directly and indirectly affected mental health, such as anxiety over the unknown, restrictions on socialising, declining access to healthcare, deteriorating socioeconomic conditions, and vaccination-related puzzle. (Surina, Martinsone et al. 2022), (SPKC, 2022) |
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Scientific objectives of the project: Stage 1: To develop the content for the CAAT and semi-structured interview for adolescents aged 14- 17 to assess emotional, behavioural, and functioning problems. Stage 2: To develop the technical part of a CAAT device itself, including the integration of pressure sensors into the device and their calibration, and the programming of the algorithm for the developed test. Stage 3: CAAT approbation and semi-structured interview for adolescents aged 14-17 years in a clinical group (n=150) and a non-clinical group (n=300). Substantiation of CAAT: internal consistency, reliability assessment, criterion validity in both clinical (n=150) and non-clinical groups (n=300), factorial validity, convergent validity. Stage 4: Standardisation of CAAT for adolescents aged 14-17 (n=1200) and evaluation of complicated COVID as an additional risk factor for psychic illness and suicidal behaviour. |
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| Project published on RTU website: | 21.12.2023. |