Optimizing Existing Mental Health Screening Methods in a Dementia Screening and Risk Factor App: Observational Machine Learning Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mindstep is an app that aims to improve dementia screening by assessing cognition and risk factors. It considers important clinical risk factors, including prodromal symptoms, mental health disorders, and differential diagnoses of dementia. The 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire for depression (PHQ-9) and the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) are widely validated and commonly used scales used in screening for depression and anxiety disorders, respectively. Shortened versions of both (PHQ-2/GAD-2) have been produced.

Objective

We sought to develop a method that maintained the brevity of these shorter questionnaires while maintaining the better precision of the original questionnaires.

Methods

Single questions were designed to encompass sympt

SUBMITTER: Kuleindiren N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8984825 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature