Health Posts in Afghanistan

Triaging Mental Health Forum Posts

Online mental health forums provide users with an anonymous support platform that is facilitated by moderators responsible for finding and addressing critical posts, especially those related to self-harm. Given the seriousness of these posts, it is important that the moderators are able to locate these critical posts quickly in order to respond with timely support. We approached the task of aut...

Classification of mental health forum posts

We detail our approach to the CLPsych 2016 triage of mental health forum posts shared task. We experiment with a number of features in a logistic regression classification approach. Our baseline approach with lexical features from a post and previous posts in the reply chain gives our best performance of 0.33, which is roughly the median for the task.

Automatic Triage of Mental Health Forum Posts

As part of the 2016 Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych) shared task, participants were asked to construct systems to automatically classify mental health forum posts into four categories, representing how urgently posts require moderator attention. This paper details the system implementation from the University of Florida, in which we compare several distinct models and...

mental health and psychiatry in afghanistan – 1996

in the past three decades afghanistan has faced many crises such as lack of central government authority, foreign invasion to the country and internal conflict between governments which have led to bas mental health and health conditions. even some psychiatric centers and activities in the area of psychiatry and mental health that were established and started activity with the help of who were ...

Afghanistan Health Sector Profile August 2002