Stress prediction using micro-EMA and machine learning during COVID-19 social isolation

Autor: Enhao Zheng, Huining Li, Nicole Roma, Chenhan Xu, Zijian Zhong, Tania Von Visger, Steven Lamkin, Yu-Ping Chang, Wenyao Xu
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Smart Health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
ISSN: 2352-6483
Popis: Accurately predicting users’ perceived stress is beneficial to aid early intervention and prevent both mental illness and physical disease during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the existing perceived stress predicting system needs to collect a large amount of previous data for training but has a limited prediction range (i.e., next 1-2 days). Therefore, we propose a perceived stress prediction system based on the history data of micro-EMA for identifying risks 7 days earlier. Specifically, we first select and deliver an optimal set of micro-EMA questions to users every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for reducing the burden. Then, we extract time-series features from the past micro-EMA responses and apply an Elastic net regularization model to discard redundant features. After that, selected features are fed to an ensemble prediction model for forecasting fine-grained perceived stress in the next 7 days. Experiment results show that our proposed prediction system can achieve around 4.26 (10.65% of the scale) mean absolute error for predicting the next 7 day’s PSS scores, and higher than 81% accuracy for predicting the next 7 day’s stress labels.
Databáze: OpenAIRE