A New Digital Assessment of Mental Health and Well-being in the Workplace: Development and Validation of the Unmind Index.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unmind is a workplace, digital, mental health platform with tools to help users track, maintain, and improve their mental health and well-being (MHWB). Psychological measurement plays a key role on this platform, providing users with insights on their current MHWB, the ability to track it over time, and personalized recommendations, while providing employers with aggregate information about the MHWB of their workforce.

Objective

Due to the limitations of existing measures for this purpose, we aimed to develop and validate a novel well-being index for digital use, to capture symptoms of common mental health problems and key aspects of positive well-being.

Methods

In Study 1A, questionnaire items were generated by clinicians and screened for face validity. In

SUBMITTER: Sierk A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8804960 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature