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Christine Howes¹, Matthew Purver, Rose McCabe

¹Cognitive Science Research Group, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, London, UK.

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Summary

Analyzing doctor-patient communication, this study found that while topics predict satisfaction, lower-level features better predict patient outcomes in therapy. Unsupervised methods showed promise for some factors.

Keywords:

LDA doctor-patient communication topic modelling

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Medical Informatics
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Psychiatry

Background:

Doctor-patient communication significantly impacts patient symptoms, satisfaction, and treatment adherence, particularly in conditions like schizophrenia.
Previous automatic prediction models relied on low-level lexical features, with unclear generalizability and effectiveness regarding style, structure, or content.
The utility of higher-level content measures, such as topic, for predicting therapeutic outcomes remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the predictive power of topic as a higher-level measure of content in doctor-patient communication.
To compare the generalizability and explanatory power of topic-based features against lower-level lexical features.
To evaluate the effectiveness of unsupervised methods in modeling therapeutic communication content.

Main Methods:

Analysis of doctor-patient communication transcripts using topic modeling techniques.
Comparison of predictive performance between topic-based features and low-level lexical features.
Assessment of unsupervised methods for automatic annotation and prediction.

Main Results:

Topic-based features effectively predict certain factors like patient satisfaction and therapy quality ratings.
However, topics do not possess the same predictive power as lower-level lexical features for all outcomes.
Unsupervised methods achieved performance comparable to manual annotation for specific predictive tasks.

Conclusions:

While topic analysis offers insights into communication content and predicts some outcomes, it is less powerful than low-level features for comprehensive prediction.
Higher-level content measures like topic may generalize better but lack the granularity of lexical features.
Unsupervised approaches show potential for scalable analysis of therapeutic communication.