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Boamente: A Natural Language Processing-Based Digital Phenotyping Tool for Smart Monitoring of Suicidal Ideation

2022; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 10; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/healthcare10040698

2227-9032

Evandro José dos Santos Diniz, José Everton Fontenele, Adonias Caetano de Oliveira, Víctor Hugo Bastos, Silmar Teixeira, Ricardo A. L. Rabêlo, Dario Brito Calçada, Renato Mendes Santos, Ana Karla Sousa de Oliveira, Ariel Soares Teles,

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People at risk of suicide tend to be isolated and cannot share their thoughts. For this reason, suicidal ideation monitoring becomes a hard task. Therefore, people at risk of suicide need to be monitored in a manner capable of identifying if and when they have a suicidal ideation, enabling professionals to perform timely interventions. This study aimed to develop the Boamente tool, a solution that collects textual data from users' smartphones and identifies the existence of suicidal ideation. The solution has a virtual keyboard mobile application that passively collects user texts and sends them to a web platform to be processed. The platform classifies texts using natural language processing and a deep learning model to recognize suicidal ideation, and the results are presented to mental health professionals in dashboards. Text classification for sentiment analysis was implemented with different machine/deep learning algorithms. A validation study was conducted to identify the model with the best performance results. The BERTimbau Large model performed better, reaching a recall of 0.953 (accuracy: 0.955; precision: 0.961; F-score: 0.954; AUC: 0.954). The proposed tool demonstrated an ability to identify suicidal ideation from user texts, which enabled it to be experimented with in studies with professionals and their patients.