LLM Questionnaire Completion for Automatic Psychiatric Assessment

Gony Rosenman, Talma Hendler, Lior Wolf


Abstract
We employ a Large Language Model (LLM) to convert unstructured psychological interviews into structured questionnaires spanning various psychiatric and personality domains. The LLM is prompted to answer these questionnaires by impersonating the interviewee. The obtained answers are coded as features, which are used to predict standardized psychiatric measures of depression (PHQ-8) and PTSD (PCL-C), using a Random Forest regressor. Our approach is shown to enhance diagnostic accuracy compared to multiple baselines. It thus establishes a novel framework for interpreting unstructured psychological interviews, bridging the gap between narrative-driven and data-driven approaches for mental health assessment.
Anthology ID:
2024.findings-emnlp.23
Volume:
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
Month:
November
Year:
2024
Address:
Miami, Florida, USA
Editors:
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
Venue:
Findings
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
403–415
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.23
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Gony Rosenman, Talma Hendler, and Lior Wolf. 2024. LLM Questionnaire Completion for Automatic Psychiatric Assessment. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 403–415, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
LLM Questionnaire Completion for Automatic Psychiatric Assessment (Rosenman et al., Findings 2024)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.23.pdf