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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Multitask Learning for Mental Health: Depression, Anxiety, Stress (DAS) Using Wearables.

Berrenur Saylam, Özlem Durmaz İncel

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Learning to Route: Per-Sample Adaptive Routing for Multimodal Multitask Prediction.Advances in neural information processing systems · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Berrenur SaylamComputer Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, 34342 İstanbul, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-8294-8342
Özlem Durmaz İncelComputer Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, 34342 İstanbul, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0002-6229-7343

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigates the prediction of mental well-being factors-depression, stress, and anxiety-using the NetHealth dataset from college students. The research addresses four key questions, exploring the impact of digital biomarkers on these factors, their alignment with conventional psychology literature, the time-based performance of applied methods, and potential enhancements through multitask learning. The findings reveal modality rankings aligned with psychology literature, validated against paper-based studies. Improved predictions are noted with temporal considerations, and further enhanced by multitasking. Mental health multitask prediction results show aligned baseline and multitask performances, with notable enhancements using temporal aspects, particularly with the random forest (RF) classifier. Multitask learning improves outcomes for depression and stress but not anxiety using RF and XGBoost.

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deep learningdigital biomarkerdigital healthensemble learningLSTMmental healthmultitask learningpervasive healthrandom forestregressionwearable devicesXGBoost

Identifiers

PMID38472973
PMCPMC10930667

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