Frequently asked questions

Taking care of your staff is one of your biggest responsibilities as an employer. Mental wellbeing is an important (if often ignored) piece of the puzzle. You wouldn’t expect employees to be at their most productive with a terrible head cold. Likewise you shouldn’t expect them to turn around their best work when dealing with stress. Not only is it likely that they are (dealing with stress), it’s also probable that they’d like some help. According to the American Stress Institute, roughly half of stressed workers admit to needing help learning how to manage stress, with another 42% saying their coworkers do. And helping employees manage their stress makes good business sense because not only does day-to-day stress impact employees’ overall wellbeing, it hurts their performance and engagement at work. Studies show it’s also a major factor in burnout, absenteeism, presenteeism and turnover at companies of all sizes and according to Deloitte Consulting, ultimately costs UK businesses around £40bn each year. Per Reuters, mental health problems are expected to cost the global economy $16 trillion by 2030. Which is why investing in employee mental health and wellbeing must become a priority for companies who want to survive and prosper. It’s also an excellent investment. On average, companies receive a £5 return for every £1 spent on employee mental health and wellbeing.

This explains why mental health has become one of the fastest growing focus areas for companies–with 57% of employers planning to increase their focus on mental and behavioural health to a ‘great’ or ‘very great’ extent over the next three years as reported by global advisory Willis Towers Watson and cited at Workforce.com.

With Evermind, employers can provide their teams with a set of practical, science-based tools  that are easily accessed from the comfort of a phone, when and where is most convenient for employees.

Evermind is brought to you by Koa Health. To learn more about the company, our CEO, and our leadership team, visit the Koa Health website

The product team behind Evermind is based in Barcelona, the US and the UK. Our team of experienced designers and engineers work hard (and smart) to ensure engaging UX and UI - all based on Material Design - and high-quality code.

All content is written by our expert mental health team, made up of psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists, behavioural scientists and researchers. You can find out more about some of our content authors (like Silvina, Claudia and Sophie) in their bios on our blog.

All of the programmes and activities on the app are carefully curated by our team of scientists and based on techniques such as cognitive behavioural therapy, positive psychology and meditation and mindfulness that have been successfully used in clinical practice for years.

Furthermore, our research team has conducted multiple studies to evaluate the Evermind app itself. Towards the end of 2019, we ran a pilot study with 20 users using Evermind for a few minutes a day, for a period of two weeks. We measured their stress using the perceived stress scale (PSS-10) before they began using Evermind, then after week 1 and week 2. We saw impressive results, with nine out of ten users reducing their perceived stress from the start of the study, and an average reduction of 7 points (on a 40 point scale). We replicated this study in the first quarter of 2020 and obtained similar data.

Early in 2020, we conducted a larger (n=180) randomised control trial (RCT) in the United Kingdom and were pleased to see a positive impact on anxiety, stress, resilience, sleep, wellbeing and overall life satisfaction. We are still in the process of publishing the results. Additionally, we are currently collaborating with third parties on further RCTs to continue to build on the evidence. If you’d like to see a copy of the report once it has been published, or you would be interested in collaborating with Evermind on further research, please contact us at hello@evermind.health.

Studies show that not only does day-to-day stress hurt employees’ overall wellbeing, it’s harmful to their performance at work, too. Stress also reduces engagement and increases turnover at companies of all sizes. For more in-depth information on this subject, download our white paper on workplace stress.

Have a team that’s suffering from stress or poor mental wellbeing? Get mental wellbeing support your team can use wherever and whenever works best for them with Evermind. Help your staff help themselves with access to engaging wellness tools that aren’t a chore to use.

We keep your data safe and private. To make sure that everything works, we need to store and manage your data. That’s why your information is carefully protected by our team with ISO 27001 certified systems and stored in an encrypted database. We also protect all communications between the applications, website and servers with TLS for encryption and server authentication. In the event that the security of your data may be in danger, we’re committed to acting quickly and responsibly, and informing you if necessary. To learn more, see our privacy policy.

Your employer doesn’t have access to your private information, or data about when, how, or if, you personally use the app. We do provide aggregated reports of all employee data, which is anonymised to employers. These reports help employers see how well the app is working and identify areas for improvement, but it does not allow them to see how (or what) any individual is doing.

Additionally, our internal ethics committee has developed a set of ethical principles and commitments, and works closely with the Evermind team to ensure the highest standards in security, privacy and ethics.

Stress comes at us from all over the place. And frankly, most of it feels like it’s outside our control, at work and at home. We understand. Sometimes it feels impossible to just ‘‘fix’ something that’s stressing you out.

Still, more often than not, it’s not really what happens to us, but how we react to it that affects us the most. That’s one of the many reasons that two employees with the same role and workload can have completely different levels of stress. We love the way this is explained in depth in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s Ted Talk, 'You aren’t at the mercy of your emotions—your brain creates them’.

It’s because of this that we believe building resilience benefits everyone. How you handle what life throws at you—inside or outside of the workplace—is key to mental wellbeing. That’s why where it’s possible to deal with work-related stress in a specific and targeted way, we’re 1000% here for it and think you should be, too. Of course, when there’s something in particular that’s causing problems for you at work, we’d also recommend you speak to a manager. We can’t get rid of stress altogether, but we can change how we deal with it, and having access to the right tools can help a lot. That’s where Evermind comes in with science-backed practical tools to help you handle the ups and downs of your day-to-day on your own terms.

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