Connect to Well-being App

The CONNECT to Wellbeing app is a personalised wellbeing planning tool that also incorporates a measurement and evaluation of interventions put in place to improve wellbeing overall - specifically funded by transformation funds in west Wales.

The app can be a stand-alone tool used by individuals to support their own wellbeing as well as the mechanism that services funded through transformation plan and evaluate their impact on individual wellbeing.

Principles of the app:

Be of value and use to the individual
• A personalised life coach in your pocket
• Tested by user group so that it's attractive and easy-to-use
• Over time, the nudges that the app should give will lead to real, sustained change. Nudges help them build better habits and people who receive nudges are twice as likely to take action.

Have a behaviour change focus
• Reminder(s): notifications
• Routine(s): scrolling through new content, watching a video
• Reward: The small pleasure centre in our brains reacting to some kind of approval.

Acts as a navigator to resources that support the domain of wellbeing being worked on
• Other apps look at one aspect of wellbeing eg. smoking, losing weight, mental wellbeing - the aim of this app is to support holistically and act as a navigator for all other apps, plans and information sources available
• Links to resources and community-based groups

Personalised to users’ individual needs
• Drop down specific conditions
• Resource and advice for related individualised goals

Achieve measurable goals
• Appropriate feedback on progress and be responsive to change
• Action plan and scoring mechanism feedback