Capitalizing on natural language processing (NLP) to automate the evaluation of coach implementation fidelity in guided digital cognitive-behavioral therapy (GdCBT).

Journal: Psychological medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: As the use of guided digitally-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy (GdCBT) grows, pragmatic analytic tools are needed to evaluate coaches' implementation fidelity.

Authors

  • Nur Hani Zainal
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Regina Eckhardt
    Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences, Freising, Germany.
  • Gavin N Rackoff
    Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Ellen E Fitzsimmons-Craft
    Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
  • Elsa Rojas-Ashe
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Craig Barr Taylor
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Burkhardt Funk
    Institute of Information Systems, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany.
  • Daniel Eisenberg
    Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Denise E Wilfley
    Washington University in St Louis, Department of Psychiatry, St Louis, MO, United States.
  • Michelle G Newman
    Pennsylvania State University, USA.