RecTrek

RecTrek's primary purpose is to aid those who have been affected by psychosis (but who are in recovery) to forestall a possible relapse and to mitigate a relapse should one occur by having a well prepared plan for the user, the medical team, and family/caregivers who would all work together to coordinate a return to recovery. RecTrek may also be used to assist anyone who is on the path of recovery from any other serious illness. It can be password protected for privacy. Designed for a small screen (320x480 it is not yet available for tablets.

There are a total of six modules. The key module is the Relapse Prevention Plan. In this module the user first identifies some warning signs that may be signals that a relapse is developing. Then a list of recipients is created for the automatically sent sms messages that report frequency or intensity of symptoms that have been identified as potential warnings. The Relapse Prevention Plan is constructed so that when the warning symptoms start to exceed an intensity beyond a value that the user and his or her medical team identify (as a trigger point) a message showing that level of intensity is sent automatically to each person on the list of recipients. Thus alerted, they can get in touch with the user, check on how things are going and help the user to get back on track with recovery. This procedure for getting back on track is a plan created by the user (when not in crisis) and the medical team and/or caregivers.

In actual practice the user is automatically reminded to activate a daily report with only 3 taps on the screen to indicate intensity of symptoms. If the average of these intensities is greater than the trigger point then a message is sent to each recipient. This takes a only a few seconds and is not a major distraction, or time consuming task. The warning signs, recipients, and daily reports are archived in the database.

If the person in recovery is also dealing with a dependency or addiction that is suspected to be a factor, or a trigger to the psychosis, then there is an option of tracking the volume and frequency of use of the substance. This will be stored in the database and may be displayed as a graph comparing the numbers for symptom spikes with the substance use to help confirm or rule out any harmful effects from the substance.

A common problem for persons recovering from psychosis is a lack of insight or awareness that they are ill in which case they may not be currently able to cooperate with the medical team and the family to follow any treatment offered. In this case caregivers and medical team may want to obtain the RecTrek application for their own Android devices and create possible goals and plans for the person who is ill. They could then do the reporting with a daily 3-click assessment of the level of symptoms they observe causing the appropriate message to be sent to all listed recipients including the person suffering from the illness.

Two of the modules guide the user to create long-term and short-term goals in the areas of Health, Work, Training and Education, Personal Relations, and Housing.
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All these data are stored in the database and can be retrieved, edited, deleted as needed.

Because the long and short term goals, the Crisis Plans, and Contact Lists are all in the Android device they are always available and each person who has the app can quickly apply the plans should an emergency occur.

This app is a work-in-progress and we will strive to make it more useful as we start to get feedback from the community of users.

Disclaimer:
RecTrek software is provided as a tool to aid in managing recovery but cannot be guaranteed to prevent relapse, nor to speed recovery, nor to make recovery more complete.The user takes all responsibility for the accuracy of the reporting which is very subjective, and for the practicality of the goals, and planning. Pocket Iris will not be held liable for any results from the use of RecTrek.