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Area of Science:

  • Computational linguistics
  • Mental health informatics
  • Social media analytics

Background:

  • Depression is a major global public health issue affecting millions.
  • Current diagnosis and treatment face barriers, exacerbating the crisis.
  • There's a need for accessible, large-scale depression risk detection methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel online depression risk detection method.
  • To utilize natural language processing (NLP) technology.
  • To identify individuals at risk of depression on the Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo.

Main Methods:

  • Collected 527,333 posts from 3200 users (1600 with depression, 1600 without) on Sina Weibo.
  • Developed a hierarchical transformer network with word-level, post-level, and semantic aggregation encoders.
  • Employed statistical and linguistic analyses (Chinese Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) for language behavior.

Main Results:

  • The model achieved 84.62% accuracy without sampling techniques.
  • A retrieval-based sampling strategy improved performance to 95.46% accuracy.
  • Individuals with depression showed increased use of negation words and negative emotional vocabulary.

Conclusions:

  • Deep learning methods are feasible and effective for detecting depression risk.
  • Findings support large-scale, automated, and noninvasive depression prediction via social media.
  • Language behavior analysis offers insights into the psychological state of individuals with depression.