Social Media Mining for Postpartum Depression Prediction

Abstract

This study investigated the feasibility of a postpartum depression predictor based on social media writings. The current broad use of social media networks generates a large amount of digital data, which, when coupled with artificial intelligence methods, have the potential to disclose significant health related insights. In this paper we explore the use of machine learning for prediction of postpartum depression on a corpus created from Reddit posts.

Keywords: machine learning; mental health; postpartum depression; social media; women’s health.