The Black Dog Institute’s HeadGear app was tested by more than 2200 workers and significantly improved their wellbeing on several mental health scores. The results are published today in Psychological Medicine journal and can be read here.
Mental illness costs the Australian
economy $12 billion each year
through lost productivity due to sickness absence, presenteeism, workers compensation claims and staff turnover. Previous research has shown that one in five Australians (20%) have taken time off work in the past 12 months due to feeling stressed, anxious, depressed or mentally unhealthy.
A mental health app has successfully halved the number of new onset depression cases amongst Australian workers in the largest ever study of its kind.
World-first app drastically improves workers’ mental health