Predicting generalised anxiety disorder among women using decision tree-based classification
by Neesha Jothi; Wahidah Husain; Nur'Aini Abdul Rashid; Lee Ker Xin
International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS), Vol. 29, No. 1, 2018

Abstract: Mental health presents as one of the greatest challenges to the current generation. It has been reported that about 5% of the population in developed countries are affected by generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) with women twice as likely to be affected as compared to men. Predicting GAD among women is no longer an arduous task especially with the assistance of data mining technology. In this paper, a methodology encompassing data collection, data pre-processing, data analysis and data mining process using random forest approach is drawn for an effective prediction. The random forest approach is one of the classification data mining techniques which is embedded with good predictive characteristic. The result of this study in term of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity conforming to its high predictive performance in GAD prediction based on depressive symptoms. Besides that, several popular machine learning techniques are also applied to the resultant dataset of this study and the comparison result attests to random forest algorithm outperformed other methods. The generated prediction model is expected to provide an effective screening process to detect generalised anxiety disorder earlier among women in Malaysia.

Online publication date: Mon, 13-Aug-2018

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