Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA; Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
J Affect Disord. 2020 Apr 15;267:63-66. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.01.131. Epub 2020 Jan 23.
The expanding amount of information available from our use of technologies has led researchers to explore how this information can aid in the detection of mental health issues. We expand on past work in this area by exploring how browsing histories might be able to predict perceived barriers to psychological treatment.
We obtained 10 days of browsing history data for 255 respondents as well as assessments of Perceived Barriers to Psychological Treatments and depression, the Patient Health Questionnaire.
We found that browsing histories enabled high performance classification of people with high levels of perceived barriers to psychological treatments (AUC average of 0.86).
Our high classification accuracy does not help understand why different features within the browsing histories are useful to classify people according to browsing history. We also look at people who decided to contribute their browsing history but the use of this data more generally presents additional ethical questions.
Browsing histories might be useful to classify people's barriers to seeking psychological treatment. It is clinically relevant to find those who perceive barriers to seeking treatment to better design ways to address those concerns and help them find treatment.
我们在使用技术时所获得的信息量不断增加，这促使研究人员探索如何利用这些信息来帮助发现心理健康问题。我们通过探索浏览历史记录如何预测感知到的心理治疗障碍，对该领域的以往研究进行了扩展。
我们获取了 255 名受访者 10 天的浏览历史记录数据，以及对心理治疗障碍和抑郁（患者健康问卷）的评估。
我们发现浏览历史记录能够对具有高度心理治疗障碍感知的人进行高绩效分类（AUC 平均值为 0.86）。
我们的高分类准确性并不能帮助我们理解为什么浏览历史记录中的不同特征对于根据浏览历史记录对人们进行分类是有用的。我们还研究了那些决定贡献其浏览历史记录的人，但更普遍地使用这些数据会带来其他伦理问题。
浏览历史记录可能有助于对人们寻求心理治疗的障碍进行分类。找到那些认为寻求治疗有障碍的人具有重要的临床意义，以便更好地设计解决这些问题的方法，并帮助他们找到治疗方法。
