SOJIE Mobile Application

Sojie is a mobile application technological system that will provide a connection between ADHD patients and various medical practitioners to cater for their wellbeing.

It is a mobile application that connects ADHD patients with various health personnel all over the world so as to foster an inter-personal relationship between the two groups. This connection will help the cope with the lifetime effects of living with ADHD.

 It can be accessed by anyone; all you need is a phone and internet connections. Contents of this app includes: A social media platform where anyone can share ideas and raise helpful discussion, audio, video and PDF’s will also be available, so as to foster learning.

There will also be recreational areas where intellectual and brain tasking games will be played. This will help reduce cases of impulsive behavior, as these patients get occupied with a task.

Our project is focused on helping ADHD patients. From our studies, we have learnt that this disorder affects mainly the youth, who obviously are the future leaders of the world. With this knowledge, it is clear that this problem requires urgent attention with its exceptional growth in the last few years.

In our communities, symptoms of ADHD are skyrocketing speedily causing havoc but this disorder is still ignorant to many around us. Anchoring on the signs and symptoms of this disorder, we estimated that out of a class of 50 students, 10 have ADHD. This could be attributed to some physical factors which we noted; use of hard drugs, negative environmental factors and there's also genetics and hereditary causes. As a result of this development there has been an increasing level of ills in schools and society.

Our solution mainly aims at promoting value and bringing out the best in these ADHD patients, making sure that their voice are being heard and helped in every possible way. Most of this individuals are regarded to be useless and of no societal value amidst other members of the society without knowing that they were under some sort of disorder.

As a result, it has lead to discrimination and unfairness in the society. These individuals go on living their life feeling useless so they go into any sort of crime and societal unrest. These disorder being more prone to males has allowed them result into their own world, with their one rules and live style.

This is the area Sojie mobile application focuses on.    

Observation and social interaction with suspected individuals exhibiting symptoms of ADHD, has been our main source of information coupled with articles online. We also worked with a psychiatrist, to better our understanding of the main cause of the disorder and also means of getting local data concerning ADHD. From our time together, we found out that most of these individuals weren’t born into it, but developed all of a sudden. The major factor this was mainly environment.

What we then did was that we allowed these individuals to spend more time and attention to those things they loved doing, so as to foster concentration. 

We as team, has come really far in this project. With our unseizing love for the youth and the society, we plan on ensuring the efficient harnessing of the application so that this affected individuals will derive value and responsiveness in themselves.

The application was first used by the members of the team, before introducing in a primary school, in our home city, Lagos Nigeria. Basically what we did was to monitor the attention and responsiveness of the students during a lecture taught by their teachers. After monitoring some of the students behavior, we went ahead to make a presentation on the parents forum day, to enlighten and sensitize their parents on the possibility that some of their children might be suffering from this disorder due to the symptoms they exhibit. Our teaching had a great impact on the students and the parents reaction afterwards.

It a web app that connect ADHD patient to experienced doctors and therapists.

Below is a feature we intend to put in the web app.

We tend to reach out to all the school in our state  with a sole aim of monitoring and understanding the behaviors of the students and reach out to the parents and school authorities for more information and introduce our solution to them in order to solve this disorder if present. Over about 799 Schools.

As at next year, we would have reached out to as much as 50 school in lagos State and also solve 70% of the ADHD problem in each school we reach out to.

We are going to introduce the web app to every school we reach out to and follow them up on how to use it. then we will make them know that we are trying to solve this problem that they should also help in spreading the application and information to as many schools as possible.

Our goals are aimed at getting this application used in over 70 schools in Lagos State and impacting the lives of many persons especially the younger population. We plan on measuring the progress of these goals by the number of people that download our application and sign up, the therapists that agree to be a part of our projects and provide services on our application, positive reviews of parents, wards, relatives and teachers of people who have ADHD, of how our application has been able to help them lead better lives.

Our project seeks to promote the SDG goal 3, ‘Good Health and Wellbeing and by accomplishing all our set goals with its progress measured by our set metrics we will be able to get this done and help students with this disorder be able to live as efficient members of the society, maximize their potentials and see themselves as truly valuable because they’ll be able to have higher levels of concentration and effectively manage their daily activities for efficiency despite their condition.

The management system of Lagos State government requires that external individuals with an aim of creating an awareness or influencing the system seek adequate approval from the authorities before any activity is carried out within its harboring schools. This system doesn’t always believe enough in the capacity of young people to deliver a complex project so with such a system, it is easy for us to be seen as non-professionals and just thinkers and therefore it will be hard for us to be easily given such an approval to carry out our intended activities since we cannot gain access to our targeted population. Our project goals is hugely tied to public schools with just a handful of private institutions involved, therefore this development may cause a barrier but we are currently working on finding solutions to the hurdle. Building and successfully publishing a mobile application is cost intensive and that is another barrier. This cost also extends to publicity for the project on social media platforms with ads, posters and flyers and also logistics for visiting schools to create awareness.

Our experience and background from high school days has inspired our passion to hinder the growing defect in our community. From our researches on the symptoms of ADHD, we realized that we have witnessed the same in schools and the entire community. With yearly decline in academic performances, lack of interest in school or learning, steady development of anti-social acts to mention but a few.

With this background information and experience, we have come to a common understanding of the in-and-out of the disorder which puts us in a perfect position to come up with an idea to solve this disorder. Coupled with our access to the internet, we have been able to research on this topic to develop our local understanding and derive better means of expanding our approach to reach out to individuals even outside our community and the entire world at large. 

The community innovation hub has also been a great help to our advancement with this projects; providing us with an opportunity to speak with our peers and even parents. Our experience with these parents has provided us with fore knowledge and information which has really been of great help towards our research.

We have been working with the community innovation hub for the past 4 months. Basically at the hub, students gather together in order to increase their intellectual capacity and learn new skills. With such an arrangement, we took this as an opportunity to provide an enlightenment of this disorder and even went ahead to invite their parents to our sessions.