Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM)

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Rationale:

First six years after birth is a period of growth and development. By age six, the brain has developed to 90% of its adult size and the child’s early learning experiences lay the foundation for their growth. Positive experiences during early years directly impact potential of an individual as an adult. These early experiences also impact the child’s emotional and social development, which is vital for their future confidence, relationships, their participation in their community and most importantly their and mental well-being.

 

Aim:

  • Develop a scalable mobile platform to map the population distribution of scores in key neurodevelopmental domains relevant child mental health in 0-6 year old in low-resource settings (India and Malawi)
  • Test utility of the platform in identifying the presence of any NDD as well as clinical needs, through an assessment of a child’s level of functioning in motor, cognitive, and social domains, assessed by the GMDS
  • Establish the ability of the tool to fingerprint the impact of known risk factors on individual cognitive, behavioural, and brain function.

 

Outputs:

  • STREAM data collected on 2000 children in Tigri, Delhi
  • Gold-standard clinical data collected on 500 children
  • Longitudinal follow-up done on ~70 children 1.5 years after first assessment

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LOCATION

New Delhi, Delhi

PROJECT DURATION

August 2019 – July 2024

PROJECT GOAL

  • Create simple tablet based assessment tool to measure children’s development in cognitive, social and fine motor domains.
  • Feasibility of the tool to be used by non-specialists in the community – Identification of children at risk for NDD’s

 

Outcomes:

  • STREAM data collection on 2000 children each in India and Malawi aged 0-6 years
  • Evidence of the acceptability, feasibility and validity of the STREAM tool

KEY IMPACT

The proposed programme of research will deliver

  • a scalable platform to assess key neurodevelopmental domains using mobile technology and machine learning,
  • normative data on these domains across two low-resource settings,
  • evidence of its clinical utility in assessment of neurodevelopmental domains at a population level in community settings,
  • evidence of feasibility of use by non-specialist (community based) workers, and
  • evidence of the impact of underlying risk factors on behaviour and brain function

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TEAM

Dr. Gauri Divan
Principal Investigator

Dr. Supriya Bhavnani
Co-Principle Investigator

Prof. Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Chief Investigator

University of Reading

Prof. Melissa Gladstone

University of Liverpool

Prof. Mark Johnson
University of Cambridge

Prof. Sharat Chandran
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Prof. Emily Jones
Birkbeck College, University of London

Prof. Vikram Patel
Harvard Medical School

Prof. Gillian Lancaster
Keele University

Dr Emmie Mbale
University of Malawi

For further details please write to gauri.divan@sangath.in and supriya.bhavnani@sangath.in

 

FUNDERS

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RELEVANT LINKS

RESOURCES

Reetabrata Roy et al

Neurodevelopmental disabilities,

2023

Indu Dubey, Rahul Bishain, Gauri Divan, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Jayashree Dasgupta, Supriya Bhavnani, Vikram Patel, et al

Sage Journals,

2023

Lavangi Naithani, Priya Sangwan, Sanjana Guha Roy, Sreepriya Menon, Zakiya Azar, Shweta Lakhera, Divya Kumar, Minal Kakra Abhilashi, Reetabrata Roy, Vivek Vajaratkar, Carol Taylor, Vikram Patel, Jonathan Green, Gauri Divan

Frontiers, Frontiers in Psychiatry,

2022

Lavangi Naithani, Caitlin Goldie, Abhipreet Kaur, Charlotte Butter, Shweta Lakhera, Kathy Leadbitter, Gauri Divan

Frontiers, Frontiers in Psychiatry,

2022

D Mukherjee, S Bhopal, S Bhavnani, K Kant Sharma, R Roy, G Divan, S Mandal, S Soremekun, B Kirkwood, V Patel

Wellcome Open Research,

2022

Indu Dubey, Simon Brett, Liliana Ruta, Rahul Bishain, Sharat Chandran, Supriya Bhavnani, Matthew K. Belmonte, Georgia Lockwood Estrin, Mark Johnson, Teodora Gliga, Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Plos One,

2022

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