ProMind-LLM: Proactive Mental Health Care via Causal Reasoning with Sensor Data

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Main Authors: Zheng, Xinzhe, Ji, Sijie, Sun, Jiawei, Chen, Renqi, Gao, Wei, Srivastava, Mani
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author Zheng, Xinzhe
Ji, Sijie
Sun, Jiawei
Chen, Renqi
Gao, Wei
Srivastava, Mani
author_facet Zheng, Xinzhe
Ji, Sijie
Sun, Jiawei
Chen, Renqi
Gao, Wei
Srivastava, Mani
contents Mental health risk is a critical global public health challenge, necessitating innovative and reliable assessment methods. With the development of large language models (LLMs), they stand out to be a promising tool for explainable mental health care applications. Nevertheless, existing approaches predominantly rely on subjective textual mental records, which can be distorted by inherent mental uncertainties, leading to inconsistent and unreliable predictions. To address these limitations, this paper introduces ProMind-LLM. We investigate an innovative approach integrating objective behavior data as complementary information alongside subjective mental records for robust mental health risk assessment. Specifically, ProMind-LLM incorporates a comprehensive pipeline that includes domain-specific pretraining to tailor the LLM for mental health contexts, a self-refine mechanism to optimize the processing of numerical behavioral data, and causal chain-of-thought reasoning to enhance the reliability and interpretability of its predictions. Evaluations of two real-world datasets, PMData and Globem, demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods, achieving substantial improvements over general LLMs. We anticipate that ProMind-LLM will pave the way for more dependable, interpretable, and scalable mental health case solutions.
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spellingShingle ProMind-LLM: Proactive Mental Health Care via Causal Reasoning with Sensor Data
Zheng, Xinzhe
Ji, Sijie
Sun, Jiawei
Chen, Renqi
Gao, Wei
Srivastava, Mani
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Mental health risk is a critical global public health challenge, necessitating innovative and reliable assessment methods. With the development of large language models (LLMs), they stand out to be a promising tool for explainable mental health care applications. Nevertheless, existing approaches predominantly rely on subjective textual mental records, which can be distorted by inherent mental uncertainties, leading to inconsistent and unreliable predictions. To address these limitations, this paper introduces ProMind-LLM. We investigate an innovative approach integrating objective behavior data as complementary information alongside subjective mental records for robust mental health risk assessment. Specifically, ProMind-LLM incorporates a comprehensive pipeline that includes domain-specific pretraining to tailor the LLM for mental health contexts, a self-refine mechanism to optimize the processing of numerical behavioral data, and causal chain-of-thought reasoning to enhance the reliability and interpretability of its predictions. Evaluations of two real-world datasets, PMData and Globem, demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed methods, achieving substantial improvements over general LLMs. We anticipate that ProMind-LLM will pave the way for more dependable, interpretable, and scalable mental health case solutions.
title ProMind-LLM: Proactive Mental Health Care via Causal Reasoning with Sensor Data
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14038