Technical presentation for a mental health application called Affirmations.

1. Affirmations
Lindokuhle Nini 218196504
Vuyisa Nkangana 218192215
Legiste Ndabashinze 217046207
Lihle Njobe 218193882
Justin Nkuna 219319820
Okuhle Ndlebe 218338619
Project 3

2. AGENDA
01 Problem statement Vuyisa
02 Solution Overview Vuyisa
04 Requirements Justin
05 Architecture Okuhle
06 Features Okuhle
07 Technologies used Legiste
08 What makes our app different? Justin
03 Questionnaire feedbacks Lindo, Lihle

3. Problem statement
Mental health issues have increased among students during the
pandemic due to multiple factors such as:
● Difficulty adjusting academically and feeling socially isolated.
● Having limited resources and lack of privacy at home.
● Disruptions of routines.
● Challenges of remote learning and fear of getting infected, etc.
Some students suffer in silence because of the stigma around
seeking help, and some are not aware of help offered by institution.
Research shows that there are few prevalence studies of mental
health difficulties among South African university students, but
existing data suggest that 12 per cent experience moderate to
severe symptoms of depression, 15 per cent have moderate to
severe symptoms of anxiety and 24 per cent report suicidal ideation.
In recent years, increasing rates of student suicides at South African
universities have heightened the urgency of developing coherent
institutional strategies to address student mental health needs.

4. Solution Overview
● We created a mental health application called
Affirmations.
● It raises awareness around various mental health
illneseses, and provides valuable tools to help students
deal with these issues.
● As an aid to our research, we created a questionnaire for
students to get an idea on what they understand about
mental health, whether they would make use of the
application that we have decided to build and what
features would they like to see on the app.
● We also created a questionnaire for the student
counselling and the data collected from this
questionnaire would help us better understand the issues
students face, and how to make our application useful to
students in helping them deal with their mental health
issues. We also did research on similar mental health apps
to get an idea of how we could create our app.

5. Student questionnaire feedback
Distress triggers
• finances
• Course work
• Relationships
and social
worries
Strategies
• Listening to music
• sleeping
• Exercising
• Socializing
Institution suggestions
• Raise awareness
• Make counselling
compulsory
• Have 24/7 support
available
Any suicidal thoughts
• Yes
Application features
• Explaining mental
health
• Symptoms of
mental health
• Affirming messages
• Online Booking

6. Student council questionnaire
feedback
Issues
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Relationships
• Change
Maintaining mental
health
• Sleeping
• Eating
• Social connections
• Relaxation
• Exercise
Links to help resources:
• Videos
• Websites
• Hotlines
• Brochures
• Publications on mental
health Research to verify that
all resources are
trustworthy.
Start with a few
themes

7. Functional
• Student should be able to
register and login.
• There should be an easy to use
symptoms checker.
• The user should be able to
access information about
various mental health issues.
• Functional booking system for
booking counselling
appointments.
Non-functional
• Reliability – Should be
operational at all times.
• Usability – There should be
instructions on how to use the
app.
• Performance – Should have a
fast response time.
• Security – Students should have
a unique username and
password.
• Supportability – Should
accommodate all devices.
Requirements

8. Architecture
SignUp
SignIn SymptomsCheck
Conditions
SupportGroups
StudentCounselling
BookSession
Services
About
HomePage
+showInfo
+firstName
+lastName
+email
+studentNum
+password
+studentNumber
+password
+symptoms
+showInfo
+name
+location
+showInfo
+showInfo
+showInfo
+showInfo

9. Main Features
Symptoms
checker
Mental health
awareness
Automated
booking
Support group
info

10. What makes our app
different?
● Collaboration with health care workers
● Trans diagnostic capabilities
● Simple user interface and experience
● Real time engagement

11. System Maintenance
System maintenance is needed to ensure that the system
continues to satisfy user requirements.
We will perform our system maintenance in order to:
- Correct faults
- Improve the design as time goes
- To implement new enhancement
- Removal of Outdated Functions
- Performance Improvement

12. Technologies used
● IntelliJ IDE
● Java
● MySQL database
● Version Control
● Spring Boot
● Maven
● Sendinblue email server

13. UI Design – Home & About pages

14. Sign up and sign in screens

15. Symptoms checker

16. Information on conditions

17. Student counselling

18. THANK YOU