ENDXIETY SELF-RELIEF BUTTON MOBILE APPLICATION

Mental health issues are commonly debate and heard these days. People often overlook that anxiety attack is one of the mental health problem which is commonly found among the communities. Anxiety attack caused by the anxiety disorder suffered by people need to be addressed properly. The main problem that lead to this research is most people do not aware there are different types of anxiety attack based on its respective symptoms. Hence, people did not know how to address the issues properly. Next, from medical perspectives there is currently no dedicated mobile application to address issue on types of anxiety disorder. It is due to the lack of knowledge on how to address the anxiety attack which may require for self-relief solution. The Endxiety Self-Relief Button mobile application is developed to help people who suffered from anxiety disorder and continuous anxiety attack to sooth themselves or reach for help if necessary, to authorities. Three (3) main features of this mobile application are intended to; (i) educate people with anxiety for more understanding and accepting their condition, (ii) assist people to endure or stop the anxiety attack with the self-relief solutions such as listening to songs for mind relaxation, breathing technique by pressing a dedicated Endxiety button, perform 5-4-3-2-1 coping technique to regain control of mind when anxiety trigger taken over; and (iii) reach help by connecting to hotline number for emotional support including depression and anxiety by one of the non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Malaysia which is Befrienders Kuala Lumpur. It is developed using Ionic with AngularJS framework for Android operating system. A questionnaire was distributed among thirty (30) respondents who have the background and experienced of anxiety attack before. It was developed using Google Form and the feedback was analysed to proof on the validity of the self-relief functions provided by the mobile application. The result indicated that all the functions provided by the Endxiety Self-Relief Button mobile application work accordingly and able to provide self-relief treatment who are suffered with anxiety disorder. This kind of application would be in line with one of maqasid syariah (Islamic legal objectives), which is to preserve healthy intellect and mental health. This would benefit much in helping people to observe their mental health, and absolutely compliant to Islamic requirement.  As the results proved that the mobile application can help in self-relief people with anxiety, it is hope that more collaboration can be done with the NGOs involved and eventually can be commercialize for social benefits.

Keywords: self-relief, breathing technique, coping technique, health preservation.

1. PROF. MADYA TS DR NOR SHAHNIZA BINTI KAMAL BASHAH
2. CIK NURUL ASHIQIN FAIZALI
3. PROF. MADYA TS. DR. MOHD NOR MAMAT
4. PROF. MADYA NORJANSALIKA JANOM
5. PROF. DATIN DR NOOR HABIBAH HJ ARSHAD
6. DR SYARIPAH RUZAINI SYED ARIS