Development of a Corpus Annotated With Mentions of Pain in Mental Health Records: Natural Language Processing Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain is a widespread issue, with 20% of adults (1 in 5) experiencing it globally. A strong association has been demonstrated between pain and mental health conditions, and this association is known to exacerbate disability and impairment. Pain is also known to be strongly related to emotions, which can lead to damaging consequences. As pain is a common reason for people to access health care facilities, electronic health records (EHRs) are a potential source of information on this pain. Mental health EHRs could be particularly beneficial since they can show the overlap of pain with mental health. Most mental health EHRs contain the majority of their information within the free-text sections of the records. However, it is challenging to extract information from free text.

SUBMITTER: Chaturvedi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10337440 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature