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Development and Evaluation of HopeBot: an LLM-based chatbot for structured and interactive PHQ-9 depression screening

2025-08-07

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Static tools like the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) effectively screen depression but lack interactivity and adaptability. We developed HopeBot, a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) that administers the PHQ-9 using retrieval-augmented generation and real-time clarification. In a within-subject study, 132 adults in the United Kingdom and China completed both self-ad...

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Literature Corpus work: 71add7fb-c10a-5c67-ba17-f5121613d322
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6976450/v1

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