High schooler designs app to prevent suicide through early detection

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He says his app predicted suicide risk with 98 percent accuracy.

Experts are already seeing promise in the development.

“Machine learning is helping us get better. As we get more and more data, we're able to improve the system," said Matt Nock, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, who studies self-harm in young people. "But chat bots aren't going to be the silver bullet." In addition, Colorado-based psychologist Nathaan Demers, who oversees mental health websites and apps, argued that there is a palace for personalized tools like Pachipala's to help fill a void where needed most."When you walk into CVS, there's that blood pressure cuff," Demers said. "And maybe that's the first time that someone realizes, 'Oh, I have high blood pressure. I had no idea.

The judges noted that, "His work suggests that the semantics in an individual's writing could be correlated with their psychological health and risk of suicide." As a result, he did rather well, placing ninth overall at the competition and winning a $50,000 prize."I think we don't do that enough: trying to address [suicide intervention] from an innovation perspective," he

 

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