Sofiia Lahutina

Project

The war in Ukraine is a traumatic event on a global scale. Increased levels of stress due to psychological trauma negatively affect sleep quality. In turn, poor sleep negatively impacts our psychological functioning. The use of online interventions in the field of mental health has enormous potential. Digital interventions have proven to be effective for correcting sleep problems in particular. The use of chatbots in messengers to influence mental health is a fairly new format for providing assistance. Creating a chatbot may represent a good solution in the context of the current situation in Ukraine. Chatbots can present information in the form of a dialogue and imitate a conversation with a person using short messages. These dialogues will be designed in such a way to take into account the cross-cultural aspect of Ukrainian population. A sleep health chatbot may help to influence the quality of sleep of people affected by the war and could make this help as accessible as possible. In this research project, we will deploy a chatbot targeted to individuals affected by the war in Ukraine and examine its effectiveness.