Objective
Perinatal mental disorders, affecting one in five individuals from pregnancy to one year postpartum, are the most common complications of childbearing. Despite their significant impact on parents, children, and healthcare systems, preventive care remains limited due to an implementation gap. The ERC Starting Grant e-Perinatal developed and tested the ‘e-Perinatal App’, a mobile health intervention for women and partners, showing high acceptability and potential to prevent PMDs in routine care.
Building on this, the e-Perinatal Clinical Proof-of-Concept seeks to translate this scientific evidence into a scalable, AI-powered Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for maternal healthcare professionals, enabling systematic integration of perinatal mental health into routine care and potentially transforming current practice. This system will integrate four components: (a) a risk prediction engine trained on over one million electronic health records; (b) a conversational AI assistant based on validated screening tools and guidelines; (c) a rule-based algorithm recommending over 300 evidence-based digital microinterventions from the original app; and (d) a perinatal mental health pathway digital twin providing a dynamic replica of perinatal healthcare pathways spanning both routine and hospital-based maternal care.
Delivered as a web-based application, accessible via computer, smartphone, or tablet, designed to support shared decision-making in routine maternal care through real-time discussion and choice. Developed through co-design with end users and guided by Responsible AI principles and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, the project ensures transparency, trust, and ethical adoption. This Proof-of-Concept grant proposal represents a bold translation of frontier maternal health research into novel, high-impact digital innovation a with strong potential for scalability, commercialization, and sustained integration into maternal mental healthcare worldwide.
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- medical and health sciences clinical medicine psychiatry
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine obstetrics postnatal care
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications mobile phones
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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HORIZON-ERC-POC - HORIZON ERC Proof of Concept Grants
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(opens in new window) ERC-2025-POC
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41004 Sevilla
Spain
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