Title
Prediction of postpartum depression using machine learning techniques from social media text
Abstract
Early screening of mental disorders plays a crucial role in diagnosis and treatment. This study explores how data-driven methods can leverage the information available on social media platforms to predict postpartum depression (PPD). A generalized approach is proposed where linguistic features are extracted from user-generated textual posts on social media and categorized as general, depressive, and PPD representative using multiple machine learning techniques. We find that techniques used in our study exhibit strong predictive capabilities for PPD content. Holdout validation showed that multilayer perceptron outperformed other techniques such as support vector machine and logistic regression used in this study with 91.7% accuracy for depressive content identification and up to 86.9% accuracy for PPD content prediction. This work adopts a hierarchical approach to predict PPD. Therefore, the reported PPD accuracy represents the performance of the model to correctly classify PPD content from non-PPD depressive content.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1111/exsy.12409
EXPERT SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
machine learning,mental health,moods and emotions,postpartum depression,social media
Social media,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Mental health,Machine learning,Postpartum depression
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36.0
SP4.0
0266-4720
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iram Fatima1292.05
Burhan Ud Din Abbasi230.38
Sharifullah Khan34011.64
Majed Al‐Saeed430.38
Hafiz Farooq Ahmad516429.04
Rafia Mumtaz6124.00