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Online wellbeing intervention tool for University of Warwick

WMG is a world leading research and education group, transforming organisations and driving innovation through a unique combination of collaborative research and development, and pioneering education programmes.

An academic department of the University of Warwick, and a centre for the HVM Catapult, WMG was founded by the late Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in 1980 to help reinvigorate UK manufacturing and improve competitiveness through innovation and skills development.

Challenge

Project Manager Charlotte Kershaw explains, “We wanted to trial two different interventions relating to depression, anxiety, and insomnia. One entirely digital and one hybrid. Being a research trial, data collection and analytics were really important”.

Research Fellow Dr Talar Moukhtarian adds, “We wanted it to be online to reach as many people as possible, who could access it anytime and from anywhere, so it definitely needed to be mobile friendly.”

WMG needed a Learning Management System (LMS) built within a compressed timescale, driven by the research start date. The content needed to be presented sequentially with the learning spread out over a period of weeks, so that participants would complete each unit in turn.

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We’ve had positive feedback from people using the platform, particularly ease of access and working through the topics.

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Development

The LMS needed a login function for participants and the ability to record a lot of data and analytics, whilst also maintaining anonymity. It needed visual appeal, a simple but engaging layout that was easy to understand and navigate, and accessibility was of utmost importance with videos accompanied by subtitles and transcripts.

We also created graphical icons, diagrams, illustrations and infographics, along with accompanying pdf workbooks.

Regular video meetings and a collaborative trello board during the development process allowed for easy transfer of information, organisation of large pieces of content, and quick approvals which kept the project to time.

The Results

Charlotte says: “We’ve had positive feedback from people using the platform, particularly ease of access and working through the topics. It’s simple and clear for people, and the style and overall theme looks really smooth.”