Students\u27 Mental Wellbeing in Universities Located in Melbourne

This report examines some of the barriers students face in accessing mental health services at their universities. The goal of this project is to understand the intervention plans, initiatives and services implemented by different bodies on university campuses to support university students’ mental well-being and evaluate the students’ perception of seeking mental health care. From my research I developed recommendation that aimed to bridge the gap between the services being provided to the students and student’s access to those services

Sensing Depression

The hallmark indicator of depressive disorders is a presence of sad, empty, or irritable mood, accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes that significantly affect the individuals capacity to function. The overall goal of our project is to provide a tool for doctors to effortlessly detect depression, and in effect achieve greater coverage in detecting depression over the general population. We use machine learning techniques to create a mobile application that infers a smartphone users severity of depression from data scraped off their phone and social media websites. Through our study, we have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach to diagnosing depression, achieving an average testset RMSE of 5.67 across all modalities in the task of PHQ-9 score predictions