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. 2018 Mar 8;12:57–67. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2018.03.002

Table 2.

Predictive models used in e-mental health.

Model type Studya Data Prediction Method Comment
1 Ankarali et al. (2007) Social-demographic data Postpartum depression Classification tree, logistic regression Estimation of risk for postpartum depression in women.
1 Van der Werf et al. (2006) Time-to-event data Estimation of recovery probability Sequential-phase model Models transitions from non-depressed to depressed states in the general population. Identifies factors that lead to depression.
1 Gittelman et al. (2015) Facebook likes Life expectancy is estimated from Facebook likes Principal Component Analysis, linear regression Facebook likes indicate habits and activities, which are used to predict life expectancy.
1 Pestian and Nasrallah (2010) Suicide notes Possible suicide Support vector machine The genuinely of suicide notes is estimated.
1 Burns et al. (2011) EMA EMA ratings are inferred from the collected smartphone data Various types of regression trees Provides EMI to the user in stressful situations.
1 Saeb et al. (2015) GPS movement data Correlation between GPS and phone usage K-means for location clustering, and elastic net regularization for prediction of depressive symptoms The relationship among mobile phone GPS sensor features, EMA ratings, and the PHQ-9 scores is analyzed.
1 Kim et al. (2015) Activity measures Estimation of mood Hierarchical model Mood is inferred from physical activity.
1 Doryab et al. (2014) Noise level, movement and location data, light intensity, phone usage Correlation between depression and phone usage and sleep behavior Tertius algorithm (see Flach and Lachiche, 2001) Preliminary study on detection of behavior change in people with depression.
1 Mestry et al. (2015) Smartphone measures Estimation of mental state Correlation Smartphone data is analyzed for correlation with the mental state such as depression, anxiety or stress.
1 Demirci et al. (2015) Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory Sleep quality, depression and anxiety score Correlation Smartphone use correlates with sleep quality and symptoms of anxiety and depression.
1 Ma et al. (2012) Smartphone measures Estimation of mood Factor graph Mood is inferred from data recorded by the personal smartphone.
1 Likamwa et al. (2013) Smartphone measures Estimation of mood Regression model Mood is inferred from data recorded by the personal smartphone.
1 Panagiotakopoulos et al. (2010) EMA rating and contextual Information Mental state Bayesian network Mental states such as depression, anxiety and stress are estimated from contextual data.
1 Lu et al. (2012) Voice samples Stress estimation from voice samples Mixture of hidden Markov models Stress level can be estimated from voice-based features.
1 Chang et al. (2011) Speech samples Emotion recognition Support vector machine Library that runs on a smartphone and estimates emotion from speech samples.
1 Van der Sluis et al. (2012) Speech samples Stress estimation Regression Stress level of post-traumatic stress disorder patients is estimated from voice samples.
1 Asselbergs et al. (2016) Smartphone measures Estimation of mood Regression model Failed replication of Likamwa et al. (2013)
2 Daugherty et al. (2009) Mood measures Estimation of mood swing cycles and treatment influence Dynamic model Simulation of treatment and coupling behavior for bipolar individuals.
2 Both et al. (2010), Both and Hoogendoorn (2011), Both, Hoogendoorn and Klein (2012) EMA Simulates client's symptom trajectory Dynamic model Allows predictions about the client's recovery curve and simulates the influence of various therapy forms.
2 Touboul et al. (2010) EMA Estimation of recovery curve and relapse risk Dynamic model The identification of underlying model parameters allow client specific predictions.
2 Demic and Cheng (2014) EMA, clinical data Prediction of depressive episodes and recovery chance Finite-state machine, dynamical system Modeling of occurrence of depressive episodes, and influence of treatment.
2 Noble (2014) Questionnaires Scheduling of face-to-face interventions Control-theoretic model Control-theoretic scheduling of psychotherapy based on client individual data.
2 (4) Patten (2005) Depression score Estimated recovery curves Markov model Prevalence and recovery from major depressive episodes are estimated with a Markov model
2 Becker et al. (2016) Phone usage data, EMA data Mood of the next day Lasso Regression, Support Vector Machines, linear regression, Bayesian Hierarchical Regression Try to predict the mood level of the next day based on reported EMA data and phone usage data
2 van Breda et al. (2016) EMA data Mood of the next day Linear regression with a bagging approach Predict the mood of the next day by means of EMA data collected during previous days. Optimize the historical period used for predictions.
2 Bremer et al. (2017) Diary data Current mood Text mining and Bayesian regression Clients' activity diary data is used to infer the current mood.
2 Osmani et al. (2013) Smartphone measures Depressive state Correlation Smartphone measured of the activity are correlated to the depressive state of bipolar individuals.
3 Karyotaki et al. (2015) Demographics Estimation of drop-out risk factors Hierarchical Poisson regression modeling Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis: raw data from various trials were analyzed to identify drop-out risk factors for web-based interventions.
3 Kegel and Flückiger (2014) Self-esteem, mastery, clarification, global Alliance Treatment dropout Hierarchical regression Clients with lower levels of self-esteem, fewer clarifying experiences, and absence of therapeutic alliance are more likely to dropout.
3 Meulenbeek et al. (2015) Socio-demographic, personal, and illness-related variables Treatment dropout Logistic regression Dropout estimation for clients with mild panic disorder.
3 Proudfoot et al. (2013) Perceived self-efficacy questionnaire Symptom improvement Correlation Perceived self-efficacy reported at the beginning of web-based treatment indicates outcome.
3 Van et al. (2008) Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression Treatment failure Logistic regression Early improvement can be used to predict therapy outcome.
3 Priebe et al. (2011) Therapeutic relationship Treatment outcome χ2 Analysis Outcome of 9 studies was compared to estimate the predictive capability of therapeutic relationship.
3 Donkin et al. (2013) Application usage data Completion of interventions Logistic regression Usage data and its influence on the outcome.
3 Van Gemert-Pijnen et al. (2014) Login frequency Prediction of outcome after therapy Linear regression model Client login frequency was correlated with improvement after the therapy.
3 Whitton et al. (2015) Collected data about used program features Outcome prediction Correlation Usage of (some) program features was correlated with treatment outcome.
3 Bennett et al. (2011) Session based outcome questionnaire Treatment outcome Various methods Treatment outcome estimation based on session based questionnaires.
3 Perlis (2013) Socio-demographics, self-reported clinical data Treatment resistance Naïve Bayes, logistic regression, support vector machine, random forest Treatment resistance is predicted based on self-reported data.
3 Hoogendoorn et al. (2017) Socio-demographics, emails sent by patient Treatment success Logistic regression, decision tree, random forest Treatment success is predicted based on the text contained in the emails sent by the patient to the therapist.
4 Kessing (1999) ICD-10 Depression rating Relapse risk, suicide risk Cox-regression The risk of relapse is significantly related to the severity of baseline and post-treatment depression.
4 Busch et al. (2012) Demographics, medication, clinical data Predict one year follow up outcome Hierarchical logistic regression The outcome of bipolar clients at one year follow up is predicted using clinical data.
4 Farren and McElroy (2010) Demographics, previous drinking characteristics, comorbidity Alcoholic relapse risk Logistic regression Relapse after 3 or 6 months of clients with alcohol-dependence and depression or bipolar disorder.
4 Farren et al. (2013) Demographics, previous drinking characteristics, comorbidity Alcoholic relapse risk Logistic regression Longitudinal outcome after 2 years of clients with alcohol-dependence and depression or bipolar disorder.
4 Pedersen and Hesse (2009) Demographics, previous drinking characteristics Alcoholic relapse risk Logistic regression Based on demographics and previous drinking behavior the alcoholic relapse risk is predicted.
4 van Voorhees et al. (2008) Mood, social and cognitive vulnerability relapse risk Regression trees Estimation of depression relapse risk.
4 Gustafson et al. (2014) GPS position Trigger EMI Previously entered locations EMI is triggered in locations where alcohol was obtained in the past.
4 Chih et al. (2014) Weekly assessed EMA ratings Predict relapse risk in coming week Bayesian network model Bases on weekly surveys, the relapse risk in the coming week of previously alcohol-dependent clients is predicted.
4 Aziz et al. (2009) Ambient measures Triggers EMI, notifies family members or supervisors Temporal trace langue rules A support agent that triggers EMI or notifies medical staff based on monitoring techniques designed to identify risk of relapse.
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Studies are listed in the order in which they were presented in the main text.