BRIDGE AI

Overview

BRIDGE AI is a pilot study that aims to strengthen the supervision of non-specialist counsellors delivering the Healthy Activity Program (HAP) by adapting an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled therapy quality assessment tool for the Indian context.

The project is evaluating the feasibility, acceptability and cultural appropriateness of AI-assisted supervision to improve therapy quality and expand access to high-quality depression care.

Rationale

The treatment gap for depression is addressed by 'task-sharing' models, however, such models also face challenges on where there is a lack of supervision. The human resource that is required for supervising the non-specialist provided therapy is human resource and time intensive.

The BRIDGE-AI pilot aims to-

• Enhance supervision for non-specialist counsellor based Health Activity Program (HAP) by using Artifical Intelligence (AI) tools.

• Adapt CARE, an AI-tool developed by Stanford to assess the therapy quality, to Indian settings utilising the data from OptimizeD study.

• Understand the feasibility, acceptability and the cultural appropriateness of the tool.

Partners

1. Harvard Medical School

2. Stanford University

3. University of Toronto

4. University of Utah