She still relies on skills she learned from RxWell. Nutter got married last year and landed her dream job working as a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit after graduating in the spring. "The things that I was going through, the feelings that I was feeling, the thoughts that I was thinking, it helped me to be able to create an overall positive mindset to know that instantly I can have my negative thoughts go away, to know that I’m able to have a coach right there whenever I need her, to know that she’s able to help me create a plan and to follow that plan," she said. Her mom was in a state penitentiary when she was a teenager. Nutter's parents, now sober, struggled with substance use during her childhood, and she was raised by her grandparents starting at 8 years old. One young adult who's benefited from the app is Caileigh Nutter, 22, who was part of RxWell's first test group.
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The app is available for free to UPMC Health Plan members 16 and over.
Users were most likely to use the app when they were feeling anxious or stressed, "emphasizing the benefits of the app providing a 'real person' to give accountability and reassurance," the press release noted. "This study uses the best of technology and human connection to help adolescents and young adults through their darkest moments when they are depressed or even suicidal," Szigethy said in a press release. In particular, 73% of app users reported reduced anxiety, and 57% saw reduced depression. The findings indicated that app users experienced a "significant" reduction in anxiety and depression at the one and three-month marks, the study authors wrote.
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