Machine learning methods to predict child posttraumatic stress: a proof of concept study.
Machine learning methods to predict child posttraumatic stress: a proof of concept study.
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DOI：
10.1186/s12888-017-1384-1
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发表时间：
2017-07-10
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影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Aliferis C
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Saxe GN;Ma S;Ren J;Aliferis C
The care of traumatized children would benefit significantly from accurate predictive models for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), using information available around the time of trauma. Machine Learning (ML) computational methods have yielded strong results in recent applications across many diseases and data types, yet they have not been previously applied to childhood PTSD. Since these methods have not been applied to this complex and debilitating disorder, there is a great deal that remains to be learned about their application. The first step is to prove the concept: Can ML methods – as applied in other fields – produce predictive classification models for childhood PTSD? Additionally, we seek to determine if specific variables can be identified – from the aforementioned predictive classification models - with putative causal relations to PTSD. ML predictive classification methods – with causal discovery feature selection – were applied to a data set of 163 children hospitalized with an injury and PTSD was determined three months after hospital discharge. At the time of hospitalization, 105 risk factor variables were collected spanning a range of biopsychosocial domains. Seven percent of subjects had a high level of PTSD symptoms. A predictive classification model was discovered with significant predictive accuracy. A predictive model constructed based on subsets of potentially causally relevant features achieves similar predictivity compared to the best predictive model constructed with all variables. Causal Discovery feature selection methods identified 58 variables of which 10 were identified as most stable. In this first proof-of-concept application of ML methods to predict childhood Posttraumatic Stress we were able to determine both predictive classification models for childhood PTSD and identify several causal variables. This set of techniques has great potential for enhancing the methodological toolkit in the field and future studies should seek to replicate, refine, and extend the results produced in this study. The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1384-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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