MHealth

Apurv Kaushal
20-10-2018

App Description

This App is meant to help any person determine the chances of their mentally ill friend having received psychological treatment.

Just ask three basic questions to your friend & enter their response

  • Is there any family history of your illness?
  • If you have a mental health issue, does this interfere with your work?
  • Do you know the options for mental health care your employer provides?

Main Algorithm

Trained the mental health in tech survey data from Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/osmi/mental-health-in-tech-survey/home) using Random Forest Model. Shortlisted the three most important questions which explained maximum variability from the VarImp function.

Code to illustrate Model Used

readRDS(file="mentlhealth.rds")
Random Forest 

730 samples
  4 predictor
  2 classes: 'No', 'Yes' 

No pre-processing
Resampling: Bootstrapped (25 reps) 
Summary of sample sizes: 730, 730, 730, 730, 730, 730, ... 
Resampling results across tuning parameters:

  mtry  Accuracy   Kappa    
  2     0.7803235  0.4804951
  4     0.7657830  0.4621542
  7     0.6959619  0.3364703

Accuracy was used to select the optimal model using the largest value.
The final value used for the model was mtry = 2.

Marketing Channels

  • Psychologist Associations
  • Workplace Employers
  • College Counsellors