A Multilingual Digital Mental Health and Well-Being Chatbot (ChatPal): Pre-Post Multicenter Intervention Study

Courtney Potts   ¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Frida Lindström   ² , BSc, MSc ;   Raymond Bond   ³ , BSc, PhD ;   Maurice Mulvenna   ³ , BSc, MPhil, PhD ;   Frederick Booth   ⁴ , BSc, PhD ;   Edel Ennis   ¹ , BSc, PhD ;   Karolina Parding   ² , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Catrine Kostenius   ⁵ , PhD ;   Thomas Broderick   ⁶ , BSc ;   Kyle Boyd   ⁷ , BSc, MA, PhD ;   Anna-Kaisa Vartiainen   ⁸ , MSc ;   Heidi Nieminen   ⁹ , MSc ;   Con Burns   ⁶ , BA, MA, PhD ;   Andrea Bickerdike   ⁶ , MB BAO BCh, PhD ;   Lauri Kuosmanen   ⁹ , PhD ;   Indika Dhanapala   ¹⁰ , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Alex Vakaloudis   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Brian Cahill   ¹⁰ , BEng, MSc ;   Marion MacInnes   ¹¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Martin Malcolm   ¹² , MA, MPH ;   Siobhan O'Neill   ¹ , BA, MPsychSc, PhD

¹ School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, United Kingdom

² Department of Social Sciences,Technology and Arts, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

³ School of Computing, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

⁴ Department of Accounting, Finance & Economics, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

⁵ Department of Health, Education and Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

⁶ Department of Sport, Leisure & Childhood Studies, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland

⁷ School of Art, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

⁸ Department of Social and Health Management, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

⁹ Department of Nursing Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

¹⁰ Nimbus Research Centre, Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland

¹¹ Research & Innovation, National Health Service Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom

¹² Public Health Intelligence and Information Services, National Health Service Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom