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ArticleJAMIA open2026

Aim high, stay private: differentially private synthetic data enables public release of behavioral health information with high utility.

Mohsen Ghasemizade, Juniper Lovato, Chris Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Laura S P Bloomfield, Matthew Price, Joseph Near

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Article in JAMIA open, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mohsen GhasemizadeDepartment of Computer Science, University of Vermont, VT, 05405, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5758-1658
Juniper LovatoDepartment of Computer Science, University of Vermont, VT, 05405, United States.
Chris DanforthDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, VT, 05405, United States.
Peter Sheridan DoddsDepartment of Computer Science, University of Vermont, VT, 05405, United States.
Laura S P BloomfieldThe Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, VT, 05405, United States.
Matthew PriceDepartment of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, VT, 05405, United States.
Joseph NearDepartment of Computer Science, University of Vermont, VT, 05405, United States.

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Abstract

Objective: Sharing behavioral health and wearable data poses privacy challenges, as traditional de-identification remains vulnerable to re-identification. Differential privacy (DP) provides mathematical guarantees through a tunable privacy budget, Materials and methods: We analyzed physiological data from wearable devices and self-reported data from Phase 1 of the Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study (LEMURS), which tracked sleep, stress, and well-being among first-year college students. Three DP synthetic data generators: AIM, MST, and PATECTGAN, were evaluated across privacy budgets ranging from Results: AIM outperformed MST and PATECTGAN in preserving both statistical and analytical properties of the original data. For the Survey dataset, the lowest marginal errors occurred at Discussion: Choice of privacy budget is still an open question, and it is task-agnostic and dataset-specific. Moderate privacy budgets ( Conclusion: A privacy budget of

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differential privacyhealth behavioral studyutility-privacy tradeoffwearable devices

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PMID42027790
PMCPMC13099409

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