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Solution Overview

Solution Name

Amica

One-line solution summary.

Amica is a mental health service to high school and undergrad students, especially those who suffer from stress, anxiety.

Elevator pitch

What is your solution?

All students worldwide suffer from life stress, which affects their academic productivity and mental health. Statistics showed that this number of cases raises due to the pandemic period due to social distance and the decrease in income. Our idea aims to help those students to improve their mental health and productivity. Amica bot is a scientific-based application based on an AI technique that can easily stimulate a friendly conversation with students. It can detect their mood from the words and provide a well-designed challenge to help them get rid of stress and help them in the hard times.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

Mental health problems are on the rise among adolescents and young adults. According to a new study, published by the American Psychological Association, rates of mood disorders and suicide-related outcomes have increased significantly over the last decade among these age groups. Notably, rates of serious psychological distress increased by 78% among adults aged 20-21. Meanwhile, there was a decline among adults aged 65 and older. As a result of physical distancing measures implemented in response to COVID-19 for college students, heightened levels of psychological distress and downstream negative academic consequences are prevalent under normal circumstances (American College Health Association, 2019). Statistics show that those mental health disorders have been greatly increased during Coronaviruses

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Amica Bot is the best way to tackle the deteriorating mental health conditions during these hard times with quarantine, exams, and the spread of COVID-19. How the bot will help in overcome procrastination, and mental health problems: First Ebuddy service that can be provided to people at any time and the user can discuss with it any topic without identifying any personal information to him\her and providing daily support to its users in the friendliest and warmest way possible. Offering activities in the shape of daily challenges to the users to do and passions to pursue and will continuously keep up with them; these acts have been scientifically proven to increase self-worth and eliminate anxiety and mild signs of depression. Allowing the users to connect directly with therapists if they need it also, it will be granted to some of the users to be compared to the others through discussion sessions under the control of a specialist psychiatrist.

it will help the student to improve their mental health, and increase their productivity.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

By surveys and market research, as we make questioners and ask our colleges then go out of our network, and ask students from another university. and see the reports that were published.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving healthcare access and health outcomes; and reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities (Health)

Our solution's stage of development:

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

after we validate the idea we worked on the prototype, and now we finished the UI/UX and the programming of the application. we working now on the data and awareness campaigns to support us when we launch, so we started our Facebook page as it's the most active platform in our community.

Our FB page is Amica and now it has about 5000 Like.

Amica ' Facebook Page

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Cairo, Egypt

Team Lead:

Mohamed Tarek