Team-Healer: Hope for ED Patients

Healer focuses on providing a concise knowhow to eating disorders, care and motivation to the affected ones and the ones pursuing the path of recovery through visual/auditory content.

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WHAT DID YOU USE

The main languages we have used for our web app are HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Since we have worked on front-end UI, so there are no databases or stacks involved in this project

INSPIRATION

We recently saw a viral video of a Muslim girl convincing people with eating disorders to eat with her as she was taking bites from her food and the victims of these disorders recorded themselves while eating along with that girl. This extremely emotional but warm video made us realise the importance of motivation and inspiration in the fight of these patients against these illnesses and we ended up developing Healer, a platform for healing and support for these individuals alongside their therapies and family based-treatment.

WHAT IT DOES

Whether the user is affected with any disorder or has a loved one who has, Healer is developed to provide them with the basic information of main eating disorders; their causes, symptoms and treatment, motivation through video/audio/pictorial content, success stories, healthy lifestyle and how to make recovery possible.

HOW YOU BUILT IT

The number of pages to design were equally divided among 4 of the members with the front-end developing skills, while most of the content writing was done by the other members.

CHALLENGES

There were not as many challenges faced during the designing and coding processes. But merging our tasks through GitHub proved quite challenging as there were quite a lot errors in doing so.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The main thing we achieved through this work was that the members got to improve their team working skills. There were also other things like how to auspiciously help our target audience to tackle this engaging problem.

WHAT'S NEXT

We want to properly deploy our developed website and also to develop a mobile application to make Healer more easily accessible for the people suffering with eating disorders that are in need of care and support. In future we can also include options like chatting with medical assistants so that the patients can let them know about the hardships/progress in their recovery.

USER EXPERIENCE:

1-Healer seems to me an effective and substantial approach. In examining the website, I found out that the design was pleasing to the eyes. Layout and webpages were easy to understand and use. Moreover, I am clear about the fact that Healer will Prove itself worthy for those people who urge and those who don't urge but still need help in eating habits and related problems and disorders. (Hafsa Nasim, Age 18)
2-It is quite helpful, if people got to know about these disorders, here in Pakistan. (Anonymous, Age 24)
3-In coming years this could be a great work done in the fields of medicine and technology.(Anonymous, Age 30)
4-This website helped me a lot to normalize my disturbed eating routine. I was able to read other people’ stories that motivated me and encouraged me with my disorder. The motivational videos and workout videos were very good and helpful.(Anonymous, Age 26)

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