Mersey Care is one of seven Trusts in England to be a Global Digital Exemplars with a commitment to uses digital technologies and information to deliver quality, care improvements.

The SWiM project represents a collaboration between ARISE and Stanford Risk Authority which seeks to use mobile telephone technology to support service uses to identify and manage their personal risk of self-harm and suicide.

The initial feasibility and proof on concept project phase has been successfully completed, the results of which have been disseminated to both national and international audiences. A pilot evaluation is now being planned.

List of Publication:

• Haines, A., Chahal, G., Bruen, A., Wall, A., Khan, C.T., Fearnley, D. (n.d.) Predicting Suicidal Risk through Machine Learning with Phone Measurements as Proxies to Clinical Counterparts. Paper submitted for publication in Journal of Medical Research (JMIR) mHealth and uHealth.
• Haines, A., Bruen, A.J., Wall, A., Chahal, G., & Khan, C.T. (2018). Testing viability of machine learning in predicting suicidal risk via smartphone proxies: the SWiM Study, UK arm. Poster presented at the Conference on Crisis, Coercion and Intensive Treatment in Psychiatry (CCITP), 18-19 October 2018, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• (in preparation) Wall, A., Bruen, A., Perkins, E., Haines, A. (n.d) The practicalities and acceptability of setting up a trial involving mobile technology and mental health service users: preventing suicide using an innovative mobile app - Strength Within Me (SWiM).

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