作为治疗工具的生成AI心理健康聊天机器人:系统审查和对它们在减少心理健康问题的作用的元分析
Qiyang Zhang1, Renwen Zhang2, Yiying Xiong3
1Department of Educational Advancement, Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore, 169857, Singapore, 65 66012186.
Journal of medical Internet research
|December 16, 2025
概括
生成性AI (GenAI) 心理健康聊天机器人在减少抑郁和焦虑等负面心理健康问题方面表现出有效性. 以社会为导向的聊天机器人比以任务为导向的机器人更有效,尽管对不同人群需要更多的研究.
科学领域:
- 人工智能的人工智能
- 心理健康技术 心理健康技术
- 数字精神病学数字精神病学
背景情况:
- 人工智能 (AI) 的快速发展刺激了人工智能驱动的心理健康聊天机器人的发展.
- 现有的审查主要集中在基于规则或基于检索的聊天机器人上,在理解生成AI (GenAI) 聊天机器人的影响方面存在差距.
- 这项研究系统地审查和综合了GenAI聊天机器人对心理健康的影响.
研究的目的:
- 以叙事方式合成GenAI心理健康聊天机器人的技术特征,干预设计和样本特征.
- 通过对随机对照试验 (RCT) 的元分析,对GenAI心理健康聊天机器人的有效性进行定量评估并确定调节者.
主要方法:
- 通过对11个数据库进行系统的文献搜索,引用跟踪和手动搜索,确定了5555个记录.
- 系统审查包括使用生成性或混合AI聊天机器人用于心理健康结果的研究.
- 分析的重点是测量负面心理健康问题的RCT,对比组和数据可用性的具体标准.
主要成果:
- 26项研究的叙事综合表明,干预往往发生在非WEIRD国家,缺乏关注幼儿和老年人.
- 对14个RCT (N=6314) 的元分析表明,GenAI聊天机器人可以有效地减少负面心理健康问题 (ES=0.30,P=.047).
- 以社会为导向的聊天机器人被证明比以任务为导向的机器人更有效;在包括的研究中指出了中度偏差风险.
结论:
- 未来的研究应该探索多样化的用户群 (青少年,老年人),多样化的结果,文化适应和整合到临床实践中.
- 承认GenAI聊天机器人的承诺需要仔细考虑它们的相关风险和伦理影响.
- 对GenAI心理健康支持的各种应用和设置进行进一步的调查是有必要的.
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