Big Data Analytics Help Prevent Adolescents Suicide: An Introduction to Mindpal

Suicide is cited as one of the three leading death causes on the rise, according to the centers for disease control and prevention. The field of adolescent mental health is in urgent need of better methods to lower suicide risk and psychiatric re-admission rates after discharge from inpatient psychiatry. Frequent follow-up is needed to detect fluctuations in suicide risk factors, such as sleep problems, mood disturbances and social withdrawal. Mobile Health approaches and digital phenotyping are proposed as a promising solution. In this paper, we first study the problem of suicide and its relation with data analytics especially among youths. We further present Mindpal Platform developed to provide rich, time-sensitive information about health behaviors by gathering information both in active and passive manner. Further analysis of gathered data Using the Mindpal Platform can help prevent the adolescents suicide.