Comparison of classification models for adolescent's emotional and behavioral problems

Mental disorders are very common among children and adolescents around the world. In Mongolia, the international Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is used to detect mental disorders in adolescents. In this article, different types of classification methods were compared to determine adolescent emotional and behavioral problems using the SDQ.

Data were collected from teenagers, teachers, and parents in Govi-Altai Province, and the databases were created for each group. The teenager database was divided into 10 folds using cross-validation, and the models were developed using classification methods and evaluated using performance measures. The results were mainly analyzed using the Bayes model.

The teenagers have emotional and behavioral problems due to emotional and peer interactions, but they were at risk of developing disorders due to hyperactivity and behavioral changes.

Future work will examine the difficulties encountered in the creation of emotional and behavioral problems among the teenagers involved in the study using a progressive classification method.