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. 2023 Aug 16;7:e43526. doi: 10.2196/43526

Table 1.

Components of mobile app and volunteer interventions focusing on reducing TBa and PBb.

IPTSc components TB PB
Aims of intervention
  • Reduce sense of loneliness and increase social connectedness

  • Reduce self-hate and enhance self-assurance

Programmed

Mobile app
  • Self-awareness of daily mood states

  • Reduction in loneliness through automatic reminders on participants’ own support network contacts; for example, direct dial function with social network (friends and family, social and health care resources)

  • Appointment reminders for health care/psychosocial services

  • Positive message of the day

  • Push message: participants’ prewritten positive messages of self-encouragement

  • Knowledge bank on mental health

  • Stress/mood management skills through various practices

Personalized

Volunteer support
(at least 2 contacts per month made by volunteers for each assigned participant)

  • Emotional support, active listening, and encouragement to comply with treatment


  • Provision of positive feedback to and assisting participants in self-assurance through positive messages

Personalized additional components as a safety measure

Suicide risk screening through simple questions (ie, ask and refer) report crisis to the research team
  • N/Ad

  • N/A

aPB: perceived burdensomeness.

bTB: thwarted belongingness.

cIPTS: interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide.

dN/A: not applicable.