Testing a machine-learning algorithm to predict the persistence and severity of major depressive disorder from baseline self-reports.
Testing a machine-learning algorithm to predict the persistence and severity of major depressive disorder from baseline self-reports.
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DOI:
10.1038/mp.2015.198
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发表时间:
2016-10
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11
通讯作者:
Zaslavsky AM
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作者:
Kessler RC;van Loo HM;Wardenaar KJ;Bossarte RM;Brenner LA;Cai T;Ebert DD;Hwang I;Li J;de Jonge P;Nierenberg AA;Petukhova MV;Rosellini AJ;Sampson NA;Schoevers RA;Wilcox MA;Zaslavsky AM
Heterogeneity of major depressive disorder (MDD) illness course complicates clinical decision-making. While efforts to use symptom profiles or biomarkers to develop clinically useful prognostic subtypes have had limited success, a recent report showed that machine learning (ML) models developed from self-reports about incident episode characteristics and comorbidities among respondents with lifetime MDD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys predicted MDD persistence, chronicity, and severity with good accuracy. We report results of model validation in an independent prospective national household sample of 1,056 respondents with lifetime MDD at baseline. The WMH ML models were applied to these baseline data to generate predicted outcome scores that were compared to observed scores assessed 10–12 years after baseline. ML model prediction accuracy was also compared to that of conventional logistic regression models. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) based on ML (.63 for high chronicity and .71–.76 for the other prospective outcomes) was consistently higher than for the logistic models (.62–.70) despite the latter models including more predictors. 34.6–38.1% of respondents with subsequent high persistence-chronicity and 40.8–55.8% with the severity indicators were in the top 20% of the baseline ML predicted risk distribution, while only 0.9% of respondents with subsequent hospitalizations and 1.5% with suicide attempts were in the lowest 20% of the ML predicted risk distribution. These results confirm that clinically useful MDD risk stratification models can be generated from baseline patient self-reports and that ML methods improve on conventional methods in developing such models.