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LLMs show promise and pitfalls for mental health screening

Researchers have developed an agentic LLM framework designed for large-scale mental health screening, which uses a policy-guided evaluation system to ensure trustworthiness and adaptability in clinical settings. A separate study evaluated the reliability of existing LLMs for mental health screening, testing their consistency, robustness to speech recognition errors, and faithfulness to evidence. The findings indicate that while some models like Phi-4 and Gemma-2-9B maintain high consistency and predictive validity even with speech recognition inaccuracies, others like Llama-3.1-8B are significantly more fragile. AI

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IMPACT LLMs show potential for scalable mental health screening but require careful validation due to varying reliability and robustness to errors.

RANK_REASON Two academic papers presenting novel research and evaluations of LLMs for mental health applications.

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 ·

    An Agentic LLM-Based Framework for Population-Scale Mental Health Screening

    Mental health disorders affect millions worldwide, and healthcare systems are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of clinical data generated from electronic records, telemedicine platforms, and population-level screening programs. At the same time, the emergence of novel AI-ba…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 · Saturnino Luz ·

    Can We Trust LLMs for Mental Health Screening? Consistency, ASR Robustness, and Evidence Faithfulness

    LLMs can estimate Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) scores from speech in a zero-shot manner, but clinical deployment requires reliability across three dimensions: intra-model consistency, ASR robustness, and evidence faithfulness. We evaluate three LLMs (Phi-4, Gemma-…