Leveraging language models for summarizing mental state examinations: A comprehensive evaluation and dataset release

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Auteurs principaux: Sahu, Nilesh Kumar, Yadav, Manjeet, Chaturvedi, Mudita, Gupta, Snehil, Lone, Haroon R
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author Sahu, Nilesh Kumar
Yadav, Manjeet
Chaturvedi, Mudita
Gupta, Snehil
Lone, Haroon R
author_facet Sahu, Nilesh Kumar
Yadav, Manjeet
Chaturvedi, Mudita
Gupta, Snehil
Lone, Haroon R
contents Mental health disorders affect a significant portion of the global population, with diagnoses primarily conducted through Mental State Examinations (MSEs). MSEs serve as structured assessments to evaluate behavioral and cognitive functioning across various domains, aiding mental health professionals in diagnosis and treatment monitoring. However, in developing countries, access to mental health support is limited, leading to an overwhelming demand for mental health professionals. Resident doctors often conduct initial patient assessments and create summaries for senior doctors, but their availability is constrained, resulting in extended patient wait times. This study addresses the challenge of generating concise summaries from MSEs through the evaluation of various language models. Given the scarcity of relevant mental health conversation datasets, we developed a 12-item descriptive MSE questionnaire and collected responses from 405 participants, resulting in 9720 utterances covering diverse mental health aspects. Subsequently, we assessed the performance of five well-known pre-trained summarization models, both with and without fine-tuning, for summarizing MSEs. Our comprehensive evaluation, leveraging metrics such as ROUGE, SummaC, and human evaluation, demonstrates that language models can generate automated coherent MSE summaries for doctors. With this paper, we release our collected conversational dataset and trained models publicly for the mental health research community.
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spellingShingle Leveraging language models for summarizing mental state examinations: A comprehensive evaluation and dataset release
Sahu, Nilesh Kumar
Yadav, Manjeet
Chaturvedi, Mudita
Gupta, Snehil
Lone, Haroon R
Computation and Language
Mental health disorders affect a significant portion of the global population, with diagnoses primarily conducted through Mental State Examinations (MSEs). MSEs serve as structured assessments to evaluate behavioral and cognitive functioning across various domains, aiding mental health professionals in diagnosis and treatment monitoring. However, in developing countries, access to mental health support is limited, leading to an overwhelming demand for mental health professionals. Resident doctors often conduct initial patient assessments and create summaries for senior doctors, but their availability is constrained, resulting in extended patient wait times. This study addresses the challenge of generating concise summaries from MSEs through the evaluation of various language models. Given the scarcity of relevant mental health conversation datasets, we developed a 12-item descriptive MSE questionnaire and collected responses from 405 participants, resulting in 9720 utterances covering diverse mental health aspects. Subsequently, we assessed the performance of five well-known pre-trained summarization models, both with and without fine-tuning, for summarizing MSEs. Our comprehensive evaluation, leveraging metrics such as ROUGE, SummaC, and human evaluation, demonstrates that language models can generate automated coherent MSE summaries for doctors. With this paper, we release our collected conversational dataset and trained models publicly for the mental health research community.
title Leveraging language models for summarizing mental state examinations: A comprehensive evaluation and dataset release
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20145