Development of an online intervention for bipolar disorder. www.moodswings.net.au
Lauder, Sue, Chester, Andrea, Castle, David, Dodd, Seetal, Berk, Lesley, Klein, Britt, Austin, David, Gilbert, Monica, Chamberlain, James A., Murray, Greg, White, Carolynne, Piterman, Leon and Berk, Michael 2013, Development of an online intervention for bipolar disorder. www.moodswings.net.au, Psychology, health and medicine, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 155-165, doi: 10.1080/13548506.2012.689840.
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Development of an online intervention for bipolar disorder. www.moodswings.net.au
We describe the development process and completed structure, of a self-help online intervention for bipolar disorder, known as MoodSwings (www.moodswings.net.au). The MoodSwings program was adapted as an Internet intervention from an efficacious and validated face-to-face, group-based psychosocial intervention. The adaptation was created by a psychologist, who had previously been involved with the validation of the face-to-face program, in collaboration with website designers. The project was conducted under the supervision of a team of clinician researchers. The website is available at no cost to registered participants. Self-help modules are accessed sequentially. Other features include a mood diary and a moderated discussion board. There has been an average of 1,475,135 hits on the site annually (2008 and 2009), with some 7400 unique visitors each year. A randomised controlled trial based on this program has been completed. Many people with bipolar disorder are accepting of the Internet as a source of treatment and, once engaged, show acceptable retention rates. The Internet appears to be a viable means of delivering psychosocial self-help strategies.
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