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(HealthDay News) — ChatGPT provides recommendations that align with accepted guidelines for management of mild and severe depression, according to a study published online Oct. 4 in Family Medicine and Community Health.
Inbar Levkovich, PhD, from Oranim Academic College in Tivon, Israel, and Zohar Elyoseph, PhD, from Imperial College London, input vignettes to the ChatGPT interface, focusing mainly on hypothetical patients with symptoms of depression during initial consultations. Eight distinct versions were designed in which patient attributes and depression severities were varied. Each variant was introduced into ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4; to ensure consistency and reliability of ChatGPT responses, each vignette was repeated 10 times.
The researchers found that ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 recommended psychotherapy...