Exploration of Adolescent Depression Risk Prediction Based on Census Surveys and General Life Issues

In contemporary society, the escalating pressures of life and work have propelled psychological disorders to the forefront of modern health concerns, an issue that has been further accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of depression among adolescents is steadily increasing, and traditional diagnostic methods, which rely on scales or interviews, prove particularly inadequate for detecting depression in young people. Addressing these challenges, numerous AI-based methods for assisting in the diagnosis of mental health issues have emerged. However, most of these methods center around fundamental issues with scales or use multimodal approaches like facial expression recognition. Diagnosis of depression risk based on everyday habits and behaviors has been limited to small-scale qualitative studies. Our research leverages adolescent census data to predict depression risk, focusing on children's experiences with depression and their daily life situations. We introduced a method for managing severely imbalanced high-dimensional data and an adaptive predictive approach tailored to data structure characteristics. Furthermore, we proposed a cloud-based architecture for automatic online learning and data updates. This study utilized publicly available NSCH youth census data from 2020 to 2022, encompassing nearly 150,000 data entries. We conducted basic data analyses and predictive experiments, demonstrating significant performance improvements over standard machine learning and deep learning algorithms. This affirmed our data processing method's broad applicability in handling imbalanced medical data. Diverging from typical predictive method research, our study presents a comprehensive architectural solution, considering a wider array of user needs.