Mobile Apps

 

LifeArmore

 

 LifeArmor is a comprehensive learning and self-management tool to assist members of the military community with common mental health concerns. Designed for user’s Android device, LifeArmor is portable and provides information and assistance at the touch of a button.

 

Application:  Touch-screen technology allows the user to browse information on 17 topics, including sleep, depression, relationship issues, and post-traumatic stress. Brief self-assessments help the user measure and track their symptoms, and tools are available to assist with managing specific problems. Videos relevant to each topic provide personal stories from other service members, veterans, and military family members.

 

Objective:  The assessments in LifeArmor are intended to help raise the user’s awareness of potential problem areas. This information can also help the user make a decision about whether a more in-depth clinical assessment is warranted. LifeArmor can be downloaded at:  http://t2health.dcoe.mil/apps/lifearmor

                                 

Mood Tracker:

T2 Mood Tracker is designed to help user track user emotional experience over time and to provide user with a tool to share this information with user health care provider.

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Objective:  This app provides user and their health care provider with a complete tool to help user uncover patterns in how user are feeling. It may also help user to evaluate the impact of daily events or the effects of treatment on user’s mood.

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Application:  This app comes with six pre-loaded issues: anxiety, depression, general well-being, head injury, post-traumatic stress, and stress. User can also add customized scales on any topic (e.g., a pain scale). User use simple sliders to rate these behavioral categories and the app automatically graphs user inputs. User can also make notes describing things that happened during the day that may have affected user’s moods. App can be downloaded at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t2.vas

 

Breathe2Relax

Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing.

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Objective:  Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ (stress) response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management.

Application:  Breathe2Relax can be used as a stand-alone stress reduction tool, or can be used in tandem with clinical care directed by a healthcare worker.  Breate2Relax app can be downloaded at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.t2health.breathe2relax

 

Virtual Hope Box (VHB)

 

The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the patient's own smartphone according to the patient's specific needs. The patient can then use the VHB away from clinic, continuing to add or change content as needed.’

Objective:  VHB provides the patient with positive activity planning, distraction tools, and interactive relaxation exercises including guided imagery, controlled breathing and muscle relaxation.

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Application:  Patients can use the VHB to store a variety of rich multimedia content that they find personally supportive in times of need. For example, a patient can include family photos, videos and recorded messages from loved ones, inspirational quotes, music they find especially soothing, reminders of previous successes, positive life experiences and future aspirations, and affirmations of their worth in their VHB. Virtual Hope box can be downloaded at:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t2.vhb

 

PTSD Coach

 

 PTSD Coach was designed for Veterans and military Service Members who have, or may have, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Objective:  This app provides users with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help users manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. Tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies.

Application: Users can customize tools based on their preferences and can integrate their own contacts, photos, and music. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not. PTSD Coach was created by VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology.PTSD Coach can be downloaded at:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.va.ptsd.ptsdcoach

 

 

Caring4Women Veterans

The Caring4Women Veterans mobile application (app) was developed by the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and offers VA and non-VA care team member’s comprehensive information targeting the specific health care needs of women Veterans.

 

Objective:  The app is designed to increase awareness of, and access to, current information about the unique physical and mental health needs of women Veterans.

 

Application:  The Caring4Women Veterans app was developed in collaboration with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) office of Women’s Health Services and is one of a series of VA apps developed as part of the Mobile Health Provider Program, a collaborative effort between the Connected Health Office, under the VHA Office of Informatics and Analytics (OIA), and the VA Office of Information and Technology (OI&T). Caring4 Women can be downloaded at:   https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.va.mobilehealth.cfwva

 

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Stay Quit Coach

Stay Quit Coach is designed to help with quitting smoking. It is intended to serve as a source of readily available support and information for adults who are already in treatment to quit smoking - to help them stay quit even after treatment ends. The app guides users in creating a tailored plan that takes into account their personal reasons for quitting.

Objective:  It provides information about smoking and quitting, interactive tools to help users cope with urges to smoke, and motivational messages and support contacts to help users stay smoke-free.

Application:  Stay Quit Coach is based on the smoking treatment manual “Integrated Care for Smoking Cessation: Treatment for Veterans with PTSD.  This treatment is based on evidence-based clinical practices, and has been shown to double quit rates of military veterans with PTSD. Stay Quit Coach can be downloaded at:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.va.stayquit