There is a silent pandemic of suicides around the world, with an exponential increase in suicidality and chronic suicidal ideations. The exact global estimates cannot be accurately ascertained, but analysis will put it at more than a million annually...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
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Suicide poses a global health crisis with significant social and economic impact. Prevention may be possible if objective quantitative methods are developed to supplement the often inaccurate interview-based risk assessments. Our research goal is to ...
INTRODUCTION: Autistic people experience higher risk of suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempts (SA) compared to non-autistic people, yet there is limited understanding of complex, multilevel factors that drive this disparity. Further, determinan...
BACKGROUND: Suicide represents a critical public health concern, and machine learning (ML) models offer the potential for identifying at-risk individuals. Recent studies using benchmark datasets and real-world social media data have demonstrated the ...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
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BACKGROUND: Anhedonia and suicidal ideation are symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) that are not regularly captured in structured scales but may be captured in unstructured clinical notes. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques may be u...
Suicide is among the leading causes of death worldwide and a concerning public health problem, accounting for over 700,000 registered deaths worldwide. However, suicide deaths are preventable with timely and evidence-based interventions, which are of...
Clinical differentiation between adolescent suicidal self-harm (SSH) and nonsuicidal self-harm (NSSH) is a significant challenge for mental health professionals, and its feasibility is controversial. The aim of the present study was to determine whet...
BACKGROUND: Literature on how to translate information extracted from clinical progress notes into numeric scores for 3-step theory of suicide (3ST) factors is nonexistent. We determined which scoring option would best discriminate between patients w...
BACKGROUND: Crisis hotlines serve as a crucial avenue for the early identification of suicide risk, which is of paramount importance for suicide prevention and intervention. However, assessing the risk of callers in the crisis hotline context is cons...
BACKGROUND: Suicide is the second leading cause of death among early adolescents, yet the first onset of suicide attempts during this critical developmental period remains poorly understood. This study aimed to identify key characteristics associated...