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Type :final_year_project
Subject :LB Theory and practice of education
Main Author :Qurratu\'Aini Syahirah Nasharuddin
Title :Muslimmeds: a recommender for mental health solutions through the Islamic support system
Place of Production :Tanjong Malim
Publisher :Fakulti Seni, Komputeran dan Industri Kreatif
Year of Publication :2023
Corporate Name :Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
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Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
Mental health issues are arising nowadays due to the no-boundary nature of communication through the massive use of mobile and social media. Communication now is not limited to physical contact, but it is possible to be indirectly influenced, positively or negatively, through mobile devices. Because of this, society is becoming more aware of the importance of maintaining and stabilising emotional health as part of an individual's needs. In light of the significance of upholding positive attitudes and emotions, it appears that the widespread use of mobile as a communication tool can also be used to support individual emotions and aid people in regaining their sense of calm and self-love that may have been affected by negative perceptions received either in real-life physical communication in their daily lives or from the negative effects of virtual communication that they may have experienced. With that, this study aims to develop a mental health mobile application as a promising tool that promotes user engagement with positive values that can be considered as individual inner needs through the Islamic approach. Furthermore, this mobile app provides minor psychiatric treatment supplemented by music, surah, daily doa, and ruqyah shariah (incantations based on the Quran and prophetic traditions). The V-model methodology was used in developing this mobile application since it works well for smaller projects with welldefined requirements and phases completed one at a time. Perhaps this mobile app will encourage individual Muslims to remember Allah at all times, thereby indirectly providing a positive and stable mental health condition.

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