Curb Health wins first prize at The Royal College of Psychiatrists' annual addiction conference.
Published 9th September 2024
Earlier this summer, Curb presented our InnovateUK funded research, searching for digital biomarkers which would help predict alcohol craving and heaving drinking behaviours.
In summary
There are estimated to be over 10million people in England alone who exceed the recommended safe limits for consumption of alcohol.
This is associated with significant health related burden to the individual, their families, their employers and their healthcare provider.
In this study, over 5000 users were recruited organically and given access to the Curb mobile application over a 6 month period.
All data from wearables, smart phones and direct user inputs were aggregated to a daily level and a logistic regression model was trained to determine whether or not an individual was at high risk of craving or consuming alcohol.
We observed a number of trends relating to digital biomarkers such as sleep, heart rate variability (HRV), step count and subjective mood ratings. These trends were in keeping with our hypothesis and existing literature.
Curb wins first prize
Despite some tough competition, Curb were ultimately awarded first prize by The Royal College of Psychiatrists Addiction Faculty at their annual conference for the below poster presentation of digital biomarkers based on our pilot study.Thank you and congratulations to the fantatstic team, Dr David McLaughlan (co-founder of Curb), Dr Helen Anderson, Dr Romayne GadelRab, Faith Matcham, Millie Gooch, Jo Barrow, Kiran Bansal, and Christopher Lovejoy MD, for designing, recruiting, delivering, analysing, writing up and presenting this studies.
