Clairity in a University Mental Health Clinic

Clairity Dashboard

A clinical dashboard (Clairity) where consolidated results of standardized instruments and language-based machine learning models can more fully inform and expedite the clinical decision-making process. This type of dashboard can provide the clinician a time-based snapshot of the current mental state of the client and can inform the clinician of whether treatment methods are making an impact. The addition of an unbiased, innovative measure derived from vocal biomarkers may bring objectivity to the current methods. Multiple data points for a client's session displayed in the Clairity dashboard will support the clinician's ability to reliably monitor clients' progress and make more informed and reliable clinical decisions.

Time frame: 12 month

Identify Mental States with Area Under the AUC metric

The area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUC) metric is popular when evaluating machine learning models because it does not impose arbitrary thresholds for classification, as is required for other metrics, such as sensitivity and specificity. An AUC of 0.5 is a model that predicts as well as random chance, and an AUC of 1.0 is a perfect model. In the social sciences, an AUC ≥ 0.8 is considered excellent. An AUC ≥ 0.8 for suicidal risk and depression will be the target. To meet this target with tolerances for type I (α) and type II (β) errors at 0.01 and 0.95 respectively, and an allocation ratio of 1 (number of controls/number of cases), a sample size analysis determines 25 cases and 25 controls for each condition. While many of the conditions of interest exist as comorbidities, historical data at the XUPS clinic supports a sample of 50 clients measured over four interactions will meet the required case-control numbers for each condition.

Time frame: 12 month

Outcome Measure Comparison

To measure the potential impact of the Clairity process, clients will complete their treatment as usual, which includes the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) prior to therapy sessions. The OQ-45 is a quantitative self-report inventory used to assess therapy progress. A repeated measures ANOVA will be used to compare scores on the OQ-45 for control and treatment participants enrolled in the study over an eight-week treatment period. Additionally, changes to treatment plans and therapy attendance between the two groups will be examined.