{"id":186961,"date":"2024-12-20T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ai-tool-to-provide-mental-health-interventions-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:50:53","slug":"kenya-ai-tool-to-provide-mental-health-interventions-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ai-tool-to-provide-mental-health-interventions-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ai Tool to Provide Mental Health Interventions in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>In a stride towards addressing Kenya&#8217;s growing mental health challenges, the Shamiri Institute, a youth-led organization that provides mental health interventions, has developed an AI-powered digital platform&#8211;ShamiriOS&#8211;that aims to reinforce mental health interventions in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">An annual young mental health survey by Shamiri that assessed over 1300 Kenyan youth aged 12-24 across eight counties revealed that 37 percent of adolescents report moderate to severe anxiety and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412200322.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 In a stride towards addressing Kenya&#8217;s growing mental health challenges, the Shamiri Institute, a youth-led organization that provides mental health interventions, has developed an AI-powered digital platform&#8211;ShamiriOS&#8211;that aims to reinforce mental health interventions in the country. An annual young mental health survey by Shamiri that assessed over 1300 Kenyan youth aged 12-24 across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":186962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5731,8721,4688,430,8854,257,9011,254,6611],"class_list":["post-186961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-health","tag-interventions","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mental","tag-news","tag-provide","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tool"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}