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. 2025 Aug 1;13(15):1885.
doi: 10.3390/healthcare13151885.

Application of AI Mind Mapping in Mental Health Care

Hsin-Shu Huang  1 , Bih-O Lee  2 , Chin-Ming Liu  3
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Application of AI Mind Mapping in Mental Health Care

Hsin-Shu Huang et al. Healthcare (Basel). .

Abstract

Background: Schizophrenia affects patients' organizational thinking, as well as their ability to identify problems. The main objective of this study was to explore healthcare consultants' application of AI mind maps to educate patients with schizophrenia regarding their perceptions of family function, social support, quality of life, and loneliness, and to help these patients think more organizationally and understand problems more effectively.

Methods: The study used a survey research design and purposive sampling method to recruit 66 participants with schizophrenia who attended the psychiatric outpatient clinic of a hospital in central Taiwan. They needed to be literate, able to respond to the topic, and over 18 years old (inclusive), and they attended individual and group health education using AI mind maps over a 3-month period during regular outpatient clinic visits.

Results: The study results show that patients' family function directly affects their quality of life (p < 0.05) and loneliness (p < 0.05), satisfaction with social support affects quality of life and loneliness directly (p < 0.05), and satisfaction with social support is a mediating factor between family function and quality of life (p < 0.05), as well as a mediating factor between family function and loneliness (p < 0.05).

Conclusions: Therefore, this study confirms the need to provide holistic, integrated mental health social care support for patients with schizophrenia, showing that healthcare consultants can apply AI mind maps to empower patients with schizophrenia to think more effectively about how to mobilize their social supports.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; empowerment; thinking function.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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An AI Mind Map of Self-Efficacy and Resilience in People with Mental Disabilities.
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An AI Mind Map of Social Resources for People with Mental Disabilities.
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Relationship between family function, social support satisfaction (as a mediating factor), and quality of life.
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Relationship between family function, social support satisfaction (as a mediating factor), and loneliness.
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