Feasibility of a Digital Intervention for Patients Frequently Admitted to Psychiatric Acute Wards

The Muli-app is designed after a traffic-light model, indicating different levels of severity of emotional distress and need for help. Green parts represent self-management measures that can be taken to try to regulate themselves (coping plan, write notes for their next appointment , and exercises to reduce emotional distress.) Yellow parts represent contact-based measures when the patient needs someone to talk to outside office hours, to de-escalate emotional distress and to avoid further crisis. This function connects study participants with mental health professionals at the local psychiatric hospital outside office hours (chat, phone or videocall). When the patient activates this function, the staff at the local hospital have 30 minutes to reply. The red part also activates contact with the local psychiatric hospital, but with a need of acute response, activating acute measures stated in the coping plan, such as access to an open bed in the municipality.