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TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH
Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages 567-574Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2014.0113
Keywords
decision support; postpartum depression; mobile health; machine learning; pattern recognition; classifiers; Android
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- Spanish Ministerio de Sanidad [PIO41635]
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (RETICS Combiomed) [RD07/0067/2001]
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Background:Postpartum depression (PPD) is a disorder that often goes undiagnosed. The development of a screening program requires considerable and careful effort, where evidence-based decisions have to be taken in order to obtain an effective test with a high level of sensitivity and an acceptable specificity that is quick to perform, easy to interpret, culturally sensitive, and cost-effective. The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to develop classification models for detecting the risk of PPD during the first week after childbirth, thus enabling early intervention; and second, to develop a mobile health (m-health) application (app) for the Android((R)) (Google, Mountain View, CA) platform based on the model with best performance for both mothers who have just given birth and clinicians who want to monitor their patient's test.Materials and Methods:A set of predictive models for estimating the risk of PPD was trained using machine learning techniques and data about postpartum women collected from seven Spanish hospitals. An internal evaluation was carried out using a hold-out strategy. An easy flowchart and architecture for designing the graphical user interface of the m-health app was followed.Results:Naive Bayes showed the best balance between sensitivity and specificity as a predictive model for PPD during the first week after delivery. It was integrated into the clinical decision support system for Android mobile apps.Conclusions:This approach can enable the early prediction and detection of PPD because it fulfills the conditions of an effective screening test with a high level of sensitivity and specificity that is quick to perform, easy to interpret, culturally sensitive, and cost-effective.
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