Service: MasterMind - Southern Denmark

The objective of the MasterMind project was “to make high quality treatment for depression more widely available for adults suffering from the illness by the use of ICT” (http://mastermind-project.eu). Collaboration by 23 partners framed in a European H2020 project was created in order to accomplish this objective. The innovation in this project was a Computerised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CCBT) for patients with mild and moderate depression. It allows people with these illnesses to receive distance therapy, involving fewer face-to-face appointments with health professionals. The main component of the innovation is a web application “Overcome your depression”, which can be used through a computer, tablet or smartphone. By using this application, patients can receive therapy in six modules in the form of text, videos, images, graphs, etc. The application makes patients perform tests, which then serve to communicate the evolution of their illness to the health professionals. The health professionals check these tests periodically and receive an alarm if a patient’s results are a cause for concern.