Testing Enablers to Support the Implementation of Lumi Nova
A digital therapeutic game that helps children aged 7-12 years self -manage worries and build resilience
In Partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, HIN South London is working with Educational Mental Health Practitioners from Greenwich and Bexley Mental Health Support Teams to explore how to embed Lumi Nova into practitioners’ everyday use with families of children and young people experiencing low level anxiety. Outputs of stakeholder engagement and qualitative data capture methods, build upon recent evidence for how to enable the implementation of mental health digital therapies and Lumi Nova; and will generate recommendations for practitioners and leadership teams.
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is a digital therapeutic intervention that delivers Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – (the gold-standard treatment for anxiety) and psychoeducation – via an evidence-based anxiety treatment for 7-12-year-olds; providing graded exposure therapy via an immersive, app-based mobile game
Guided self-help digital cognitive behavioural therapy for children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood enable early access, which in itself offers a host of potential benefits such as:
- enabling access to mental health support (including for those on waiting lists)
- reducing the demand on other resources such as face to face CBT treatment options
- promoting equality due to the ability to engage with digital remotely, which some children and young people prefer as well as benefiting some neurodivergent children and young people.
- clinical benefits – evidence suggests that digital CBT technologies may improve symptoms of anxiety for children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood.
Lumi Nova (BfB labs) is one of four guided self-help digital CBT technologies recommended in Early Value Assessment by NICE as an initial treatment option for children and young people (aged 5 to 18) with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood, while evidence is being generated.
