BACKGROUND: Youth are increasingly experiencing psychological distress. Schools are ideal settings for disseminating mental health support, but they are often insufficiently resourced to do so. Digital mental health tools represent a unique avenue to...
BACKGROUND: The field of speech emotion recognition (SER) encompasses a wide variety of approaches, with artificial intelligence technologies providing improvements in recent years. In the domain of mental health, the links between individuals' emoti...
BACKGROUND: There has been an increase in the use of online mental health forums to support mental health. These forums are often moderated by trained moderators to ensure a safe, therapeutic environment. While the moderator role is rewarding, it can...
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the effectiveness of AI-driven tools, particularly conversational agents (CAs), in alleviating psychological distress and improving mental health outcomes. The focus is on their impact across diverse...
BACKGROUND: Mental health challenges are prevalent among Canadian higher education students, with significant rates of depression and anxiety often going untreated due to reduced early detection, stigmatizing beliefs, and practical barriers. The U-Fl...
BACKGROUND: Youth mental health issues have been recognized as a pressing crisis in the United States in recent years. Effective, evidence-based mental health research and interventions require access to integrated datasets that consolidate diverse a...
BACKGROUND: Mental health problems often start at an early age and can persist into adulthood, leading to physical and mental health problems such as substance abuse, sleep problems, depressive disorders, and suicidal tendencies. Therefore, it is imp...
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies sparked a rapid development of smartphone applications designed to help individuals experiencing mental health problems through an AI-powered chatbot agent. However, the safety of such agents when...
BACKGROUND: Youth in the United States are experiencing rising rates of anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges, yet many remain underserved due to systemic barriers such as poverty, limited access to care, and shortages in the mental...
INTRODUCTION: Relational agents are an innovative form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can help address waiting times for mental health services. They often appear in the form of chatbots that provide responses to patient questions via web or mo...
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