Aplicación de apoyo para jóvenes universitarios con trastorno de ansiedad generalizada

RESUMEN Según datos de la última Encuesta Nacional de Epidemiología Psiquiátrica, la ansiedad afecta a 14.3% de la población (2018). El trastorno de ansiedad generalizada se desarrolla lentamente, y suele iniciar en la adolescencia o poco tiempo después de ésta. La finalidad del proyecto es proporcionar ayuda a jóvenes que sufren ataques de ansiedad y encontrar alguna alternativa para controlar dicho trastorno. El producto es una aplicación de software con diversos recursos, como lo son imágenes, videos y audios, que serán seleccionados de acuerdo a un test inicial con el que se pretende obtener una manera óptima de afrontar los ataques de ansiedad. Se busca que la aplicación sea accesible y esté siempre su material disponible en el celular (independientemente de si la persona tiene acceso a la red o no), el cual deberá contar con al menos Android 6. No se pretende reemplazar al especialista, sino acompañar a la persona en su proceso de reincorporación a una vida normal por medio de la reestructuración cognitiva, la cual se refiere al entrenamiento del cerebro para que aquello que hace que la ansiedad y sus molestos síntomas disminuya. ABSTRACT According to data from the latest National Psychiatric Epidemiology Survey, anxiety affects 14.3% of the population (2018). Generalized anxiety disorder develops slowly, usually starting in adolescence or shortly after adolescence. The aim of the project is to provide help to young people suffering from anxiety attacks and to find some alternative to control such disorder. The product is a software application with various resources, such as images, videos and audios, which will be selected according to an initial test with which it is intended to obtain an optimal way to deal with anxiety attacks. The application is intended to be accessible and its material is always available on the cell phone (regardless of whether the person has access to the network or not), which must have at least Android 6. It is not intended to replace the specialist, but to accompany the person in the process of reincorporation to a normal life through cognitive restructuring, which refers to the training of the brain so that what makes anxiety and its annoying symptoms diminish.

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In this podcast we speak to Professor Henrik Larsson, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at Orebro University and Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and Editor in Chief of ACAMH's new journal, JCPP Advances.

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MGMH was created by reassembling psychiatric epidemiology, health economics, health systems research, evidence-based therapeutics, lay awareness, human rights, and sustainable development into an set of policy instruments. I retrace the emergence and crisis of three “pillars” of MGMH: epidemiology, economics of minds and moods, and the gap in treatment provision. I argue that MGMH remains limited by its strategic ignorance of flaws in the data, of paradoxical relations between economic development and health improvement, and of how people actually seek help in low income countries. I conclude by arguing that MGMH policies are bound to fail if they fail to reckon with the contradictions in its approach.