Chat-GPT: Opportunities and Challenges in Child Mental Healthcare

  • Nazish Imran KEMU
  • Aateqa Hashmi House Officer, Child & Family Psychiatry Department, KEMU/MHL
  • Ahad Imran Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Child Mental Health, ChatGPT, Open AI, Mental Illness

Abstract

Mental health in children and young people is a global public health concern. With the increasing prevalence of mental illnesses and a significant treatment gap, Mental Health in children and adolescents is now a global public health concern. The development and extensive research in the field of Artificial Intelligence(AI) for healthcare has been quite promising. The emergence of AI based alternatives could be a viable solution for reducing mental health treatment gap for people belonging to low and middle income countries. Development of Chatbots like ChatGPT which is trained, using large amount of textual data from the internet, can revolutionize child and adolescent mental healthcare by acting as an effective assisting tool but a lot of caution is required for its safe and responsible use in times to come.

doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.39.4.8118

How to cite this: Imran N, Hashmi A, Imran A. Chat-GPT: Opportunities and Challenges in Child Mental Healthcare. Pak J Med Sci. 2023;39(4):1191-1193. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.39.4.8118

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Author Biography

Ahad Imran, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Third year Computer Sciences Student.

Syed Babar Ali School of Science & Engineering (SBASSE)

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Lahore, Pakistan

Published
2023-06-15
How to Cite
Imran, N., Hashmi, A., & Imran, A. (2023). Chat-GPT: Opportunities and Challenges in Child Mental Healthcare. Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 39(4). https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.39.4.8118
Section
Special Communications

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