Development of an Online Mental Well-being Mobile Application for Covid-19 Pandemic

Mental illness is a combination of a number of emotional, physical, or behavioral problems or abnormalities that cause a person pain or disrupt his social and daily activities. Just like any other illness, it can affect people of any age and occupation. There is a treatment for mental illness like many diseases. This disease can cure if proper treatment and advice are taken in time. In Bangladesh, 18.5% of adults and about 13% of children and adolescents have some kind of mental illness. But 92% of them do not take any kind of medical service or advice. Because having a mental illness in our society means that he is insane. However, using such app technology, experienced psychologists can be consulted sitting at home. But the majority of the existing systems are a wearable device to measure mental condition or app technologies does not provide such service as a direct connection with doctors. This paper presents the building of an app that anyone who uses can receive psychiatric services from experienced psychologists sitting at home. The overall system has separate login arrangements for doctors and patients. After log in the doctors will see the patient's appointments with him and the patients will see which doctor is free when. A patient can choose the doctor of his choice and have a video consultation or chat with him but he must pay in advance and at the end of the consultation he will be given a prescription via message on his mobile phone. The whole system has been developed using ‘Java' and for handling video consultation, ‘Jitsi' API has been used. The system has been tested in a trial stage for some time after its development and it works as expected. If people welcome this system, they will not have to go to the hospital and stand in long lines for doctors, they will be able to receive modern and quality services sitting at home.