Pseudo Bayesian Screening of Psychiatric Patients

摘要

This paper describes a method for screening psychiatric patients based on a questionnaire consisting of simple yeso questions regarding to physical, mental conditions and subjective symptoms which is provided at their first visit to the . hospital. The analysis of the questionnaire is important to understand patients' background. One hundred filled out questionnaires were utilized for constructing and evaluating a pseude Bayesian classifier which classifies patients into three categories i.e. Schizophrenic, emotional and neurotic disorders with average correct prediction rate of 73.3%. The rate was 16.6% higher than the result given by experienced medical doctors and the method will be a useful mean for automatic screening of the psychiatric patients.