Natural Language Processing and Social Determinants of Health in Mental Health Research: AI-Assisted Scoping Review

• Published in: JMIR mental health Vol. 12; p. e67192
• Main Authors: Scherbakov, Dmitry A, Hubig, Nina C, Lenert, Leslie A, Alekseyenko, Alexander V, Obeid, Jihad S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 16.01.2025
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Automation; Digital Health Reviews; Grief; Humans; Information Retrieval; Large language models; Mental Health; Methods and New Tools in Mental Health Research; Natural Language Processing; Review; Social Determinants of Health; Social Media; mental health research; natural language processing; mental health; suicide; AI; datasets; LLM; large language model; artificial intelligence; automated review; NLP; automation; quantitative; depression; determinant; scoping review

The use of natural language processing (NLP) in mental health research is increasing, with a wide range of applications and datasets being investigated. This review aims to summarize the use of NLP in mental health research, with a special focus on the types of text datasets and the use of social de...