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Identifying High-Risk Adolescents for Mental Health Difficulties: A Machine Learning Analysis of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study Across 46 Countries

2025-09-12 public and global health Title + abstract only
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BackgroundAdolescent mental health represents a global public health crisis, yet traditional surveillance methods lack the scalability and predictive power needed for effective early identification. This study aimed to develop and validate a machine learning framework to predict multiple psychosomatic health complaints (MPHC), a key indicator of mental distress, using large-scale, multi-national population survey data. MethodsData were drawn from the 2017-2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Ch...

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