Optimizing Existing Mental Health Screening Methods in a Dementia Screening and Risk Factor App: Observational Machine Learning Study.
Narayan KuleindirenRaphael Paul Rifkin-ZybutzMonika JohalHamzah SelimItai PalmonAaron LinYizhou YuAli Alim-MarvastiMohammad MahmudPublished in: JMIR formative research (2022)
We app-adapted PHQ-4 by adding brief summary questions about factors normally covered in the longer questionnaires. We additionally trained machine learning models that used the wide range of additional information already collected in Mindstep to make a short app-based screening tool for affective disorders, which appears to have superior or equivalent performance to well-established methods.