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Researchers found that the traditional way we monitor and track children
receiving emergency care might miss a good number of those at risk of self-harm,
but AI can help health providers make better assessments.
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After the shocking case of a Belgian man who reportedly decided to end his life
after an AI chatbot encouraged him to do so, a new study found that machine
learning models may actually be effectively used for the exact opposite:
preventing suicide among young people.
A peer-reviewed study by UCLA Health researchers published in the journal JMIR
Mental Health last week found that machine learning can help detect thoughts or
behaviour of self-injury in children much better than the actual data system
currently used by health care providers.
According to a 2021 report from UNICEF, suicide is a leading cause of death
among young people in Europe. Nine million children aged between 10 and 19
estimated to live with mental disorders with anxiety and depression accounting
for more than half of all cases.
In the US, an estimated 20 million young people can currently be diagnosed with
a mental health disorder, according to the US Department of Health and Human
Services.
UCLA Health researchers reviewed clinical notes for 600 emergency department
visits made by children aged between 10 and 17 to see how well current systems
to evaluate their mental health could identify signs of self-harm and assess
their suicide risk.
What they found is that these clinical notes missed 29% of children who came to
the emergency department with self-injurious thoughts or behaviours, while
statements made by health specialists flagging at risk-patients - called “chief
complaint” in the US - overlooked 54% of patients.
In the latter case, health specialists failed to spot the sign of self-injurious
thoughts or behaviours because children often do not report suicidal thoughts
and behaviors during their first visit to the emergency department.
Even using the two systems together still missed 22% of children at risk,
according to the study. Boys were more likely to be missed than girls, the study
found, while Black and Latino youth were also more likely to be left out than
white children.
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But machine-learning models were found to make a significant difference.
Researchers created three machine-learning models, which looked at data
including previous medical care, medications, where a patient lived, and lab
test results to estimate suicide-related thoughts and self-injurious thoughts or
behaviours.
All three models were better at identifying children at risk than the
traditional methods.
“Our ability to anticipate which children may have suicidal thoughts or
behaviours in the future is not great – a key reason is our field jumped to
prediction rather than pausing to figure out if we are actually systematically
detecting everyone who is coming in for suicide-related care,” Juliet Edgcomb,
the study’s lead author, said in a UCLA press release.
“We sought to understand if we can first get better at detection.”
While the three machine-learning models were found to increase the chance of
false positives - kids who are identified as at risk when, in fact, they are not
- Edgcomb said that’s better “than to miss many children entirely.”
If you are contemplating suicide and need to talk, please reach out to
Befrienders Worldwide, an international organisation with helplines in 32
countries. Visit befrienders.org to find the telephone number for your location.
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UNESCO CALLS FOR SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD TO BAN SMARTPHONES IN THE CLASSROOM
UNESCO has issued a report calling for schools worldwide to ban the use of
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The UN agency said that even being close to a smartphone has been linked with
students being distracted in the classroom, which in turn causes poorer student
performances.
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A new UNESCO report warns against the overuse of technology like smartphones and
computers in education, saying that the benefits they bring disappear when
they’re used in excess or without the guidance of a teacher.
“The digital revolution holds immeasurable potential but, just as warnings have
been voiced for how it should be regulated in society, similar attention must be
paid to the way it is used in education,” Audrey Azoulay, Director General of
UNESCO, said in a press release shared with Euronews.
“Its use must be for enhanced learning experiences and for the well-being of
students and teachers, not to their detriment.”
UNESCO’s 2023 GEM report warns that while technologies in the classroom can be
beneficial to students’ learning, they can also have a detrimental impact if
used inappropriately or excessively - as in the case of smartphones.
“Large-scale international assessment data, such as that provided by the
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), suggest a negative link
between excessive ICT use and student performance,” the report says.
While mere proximity to a mobile device was found to distract students and to
have a negative impact on learning in 14 countries, the agency writes, less than
1 in 4 nations across the world have banned smartphone use in schools.
Those that have banned them include France, which introduced the measure in
2018, Italy, where teachers collect students’ smartphones at the beginning of
the day, Finland, and the Netherlands, which is going to introduce the ban in
2024.
As a result of their findings, UNESCO recommends a global ban on smartphones in
the classroom.
“We need to learn about our past mistakes when using technology in education so
that we do not repeat them in the future,” said Manos Antoninis, Director of the
Report.
“We need to teach children to live both with and without technology; to take
what they need from the abundance of information, but to ignore what is not
necessary; to let technology support, but never supplant human interactions in
teaching and learning.”
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A FOCUS ON HUMAN INTERACTION
UNESCO is wary of the beneficial impact of technology in the classroom, with
evidence in its favour coming mostly from the richest countries in the world -
like the UK - or from “those trying to sell it”, the agency says.
Instead of relying on technology to educate children, education should continue
to be centred on human interaction, the agency says.
In the past 20 years, paper has been replaced with screens in many classrooms,
and students have ditched the heavy tomes of the encyclopedia for Wikipedia -
which had 244 million page views per day in 2021, according to UNESCO. The COVID
pandemic accelerated the technological revolution in the classroom, forcing
millions of students worldwide to transition to online learning.
According to UNESCO, some 50% of the world’s lower secondary schools were
connected to the Internet for pedagogical purposes in 2022.
But while some changes are to be embraced, UNESCO said we should debate how much
space we want technology to take over in the classroom. “Too much attention on
technology in education usually comes at a high cost,” the agency writes in the
report.
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Resources spent on technology should be spent on classrooms, teachers, and
textbooks for all children in low and lower-middle-income countries lacking
access to these resources, so that they too can reach universal secondary
schooling and minimum learning competencies.
On top of that, the agency warns that the benefits of technology in education
are not evenly distributed, with disadvantaged kids usually being denied the
opportunity to take advantage of it.
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9 MILLION PEOPLE IN ENGLAND PROJECTED TO BE LIVING WITH A MAJOR ILLNESS BY 2040
New report warns more than 9 million people in England are projected to be
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Nineteen of the 20 health conditions studied are projected to increase in
prevalence, the report warned.
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A new report is warning more than 9 million people in England are projected to
be living with a major illness by the year 2040, which amounts to an increase of
2.5 million people compared with 2019.
This number is increasing at nine times the rate at which the working-age
population is expected to grow over the same period.
The report from the Health Foundation, a non-profit that works to improve
healthcare in the UK, also warned 80 per cent of the projected increase in major
illness will affect people over the age of 70, as the population ages.
The analysis is part of a four-year project led by the foundation’s REAL Centre,
which is working in partnership with the University of Liverpool, to focus on
levels of ill health in the population of England up to 2040.
The report states that 19 out of the 20 health conditions studied are projected
to increase in prevalence, with a rise of more than 30 per cent in the number of
people with conditions such as cancer, diabetes, and kidney disease.
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In 2019, one in six adults in England were living with a major disease. This is
set to increase to almost one in five by 2040 - which will put a major burden on
the NHS.
“Over the next two decades, the growth in major illness will place additional
demand on all parts of the NHS, particularly primary care, where services are
already under extreme pressure,” said Anita Charlesworth, Director of the REAL
Centre.
“But with one in five people projected to be living with major illness in less
than two decades’ time, the impact will extend well beyond the health service
and has significant implications for other public services, the labour market
and the public finances.”
She added that these pressures aren’t only an issue for the NHS in England.
“Countries across the globe face the same pressures. How well prepared we are to
meet the challenge is what will set us apart.”
The NHS in the UK is already under significant pressure in terms of demand,
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The report states a lot of the projected growth in illness relates to conditions
such as anxiety and depression, chronic pain, and diabetes.
These conditions are mainly managed outside of hospitals and in primary care
centres or the community. The authors say therefore this reinforces the need for
investment in these services outside of hospital settings, as well as a need to
focus on prevention and early intervention.
While 80 per cent of the projected increase in major illnesses is expected to be
among people aged over 70, 20 per cent will be among people aged 20-69.
“The rise in people living with major illness will not occur overnight,” said
Toby Watt, a lead economist at the REAL Centre. “Managing these pressures is
achievable with careful planning, investment and changes in how care is
delivered.”
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He added that the findings in the report are projections, not forecasts, “which
are designed to support policymakers in preparing for the future”.
While it projects improvements in some of the main causes of poor health, such
as a reduction in the number of people smoking, these will be offset by things
like rising obesity rates.
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