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This paper presents the results of a pilot study measuring and evaluating the intervention effects of voluntary in-home use of a socially assistive robot by older adults diagnosed with depression. The study was performed with 8 older adult patients over the course of one month, during which participants were provided the robot to use as they desired in their own homes. During the in-home study, several...
Suicide is one of leading causes of death worldwide, yet little data is available about the lives of suicide victims because most people do not seek treatment. Research has shown that people express suicidal ideation in social media, which can potentially be tapped to improve our understanding of the thoughts and behaviors of people prior to suicide. In this work, we introduce a novel dataset of Chinese...
Decision-making in an emergency department needs to be efficient. It does not allow observation of the patient for a prolonged period of time, especially if the patients harm themselves or others, or refuses treatment. This includes suicidal, violent, intentional self-inflicted or non-consenting to treatments patient. Clinicians have to quickly decide whether to call the police, admit the patient...
In this research, we focus on detecting stress based on electroencephalogram (EEG) method. An experiment has been conducted with 59 subjects, the results show that three EEG features from Fpz point, LZ-complexity, alpha relative power and the ratio of alpha power to beta power, are effective respectively in the stress detection using K-Nearest-Neighbor classifier, however Naive Bayesian classifier...
The prevalence of depression in the young adult University student population is approximately 20%, double that of the general 18-24 year population. Internet self-help websites for mild to moderate depression have been shown to be of some benefit, but can only be beneficial if they are being used. In order to investigate the level of access, awareness and use of Internet self-help in the University...
Mental health represents a social and economic problem in all European Union (EU) member nations. Although cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) have provided an effective approach to the treatment of depression, several issues currently remain unresolved. This paper introduces a novel mobile system that provides several useful functions to improve the delivery of treatments for depressive conditions...
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