Development of a Mental Health and Performance Tracking Progressive Web App for Athletes

The client faces difficulties in providing scalable, accessible, and proactive mental health support to a large and geographically dispersed athlete community. Existing manual or disconnected methods hinder timely assessment, personalized intervention, and ongoing tracking of mental wellness, especially during high-stress periods like competitive seasons.

A mid-sized sports performance organization offering mental health and wellness services for professional, amateur, and retired athletes seeking to optimize their mental and physical performance.

• Implement a scalable, high-performance web-based platform facilitating mental health assessment, tracking, and improvement initiatives for athletes.
• Enable personalized and dynamic mental health surveys that adapt in real-time to individual needs and upcoming events.
• Provide a comprehensive dashboard for athletes, practitioners, and administrators to view mental health data, insights, and resources.
• Ensure data security, user privacy, and compliance with relevant regulations to protect sensitive athlete information.
• Support high user concurrency during peak periods with scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Deliver the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) within a three-month timetable aligned with sports seasons.

• Quick and user-friendly onboarding process for individual and team-based access.
• Personalized mental health surveys with adaptive logic to tailor assessments based on initial screening results.
• Version-controlled survey creation and editing to preserve historical data accuracy.
• Dynamic survey logic that adapts questions and assessments in real-time for each athlete.
• Dashboard for athletes to view their scores, progress, and access educational content.
• Content and resource repository for mental health development and improvement.
• Secure access for practitioners to review athlete assessments, scores, and provide personalized recommendations.
• Admin interface for managing users, practitioners, surveys, and data analysis tools.

• Secure user identity management system, e.g., AWS Cognito, for authentication and authorization.
• Survey and questionnaire tools capable of supporting dynamic, adaptive assessments.
• Monitoring and alerting tools like AWS CloudWatch for proactive system health oversight.

• Support thousands of simultaneous users with responsiveness under three seconds.
• Ensure strict data privacy and security measures compliant with regulations such as HIPAA.
• Implement DDoS protection, WAF, and network security controls.
• Data retention and versioning capabilities for accurate historical reporting.

The project aims to deliver a high-quality MVP within three months, enabling scalable mental health management for a large athlete community during critical periods. Expected impacts include enhanced athlete mental health monitoring, personalized intervention capabilities, and improved overall performance, with a foundation set for future AI-driven insights, analytics, and platform expansion into other sectors or regions.