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  • Digital mental health
  • Machine learning applications
  • Suicide risk assessment

Background:

  • Digital mental health applications are increasingly used.
  • Reliable early screening tools are needed to identify suicide risk among users.
  • Existing methods for suicide risk detection in digital platforms require enhancement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a machine learning algorithm for predicting suicide ideation scores.
  • To assess the accuracy and reliability of the algorithm in identifying high-risk suicide ideation posts.
  • To explore a novel method for early suicide risk detection in users of digital mental health services.

Main Methods:

  • A lexicon-based random forest machine learning algorithm was employed.
  • The algorithm analyzed 714 online community text posts from December 2019 to April 2020.
  • Predicted suicide ideation scores were validated against expert-rated scores.

Main Results:

  • The algorithm demonstrated high validity in predicting suicide ideation scores.
  • A low error rate was observed in the algorithm's predictions.
  • The model correctly identified 95% of expert-rated high-risk suicide ideation posts.

Conclusions:

  • The developed machine learning algorithm shows significant potential as an early screening tool for suicide risk.
  • This method offers a reliable approach to detect suicidal ideation among users of digital mental health applications.
  • Findings suggest a new avenue for improving user safety and support within digital mental health platforms.