Table 1 Comparison of results with previous studies.

From: Identifying COVID-19 survivors living with post-traumatic stress disorder through machine learning on Twitter

Reference

Probelm

Related to covid

Data source

Methodology

Result

32

Classification of users with anxiety, bipolar disorder etc

Twitter

Classical machine learning algorithms

89% Accuracy

33

Examine effect of depression on people’s Twitter language

Twitter

Transformer-based classifiers

78.9% Accuracy

34

Predicting mental health status of Reddit users

SMHD Dataset from Reddit by41

Hierarchical attention network

HAN performed better in classification of Depression, ADHD, Anxiety, Biolar when compared with other classifiers as compared to PTSD, Autism, OCD, Schizo, Eating

42

Identification of PTSD among cancer survivors

Twitter

CNN

91.29% Accuracy

35

Screening of Twitter users for depression and PTSD

Twitter

Lexical decision lists of n-grams

Average precision in the range of 0.70–0.76

36

Identification of depression with Temporal Measures of Emotions

Twitter

Emotion and temporal features with RF

91.81% Accuracy

43

Classification of mental illness

Reddit

Traditional machine learning, deep learning and transfer learning

83% Accuracy with RoBERTa

12

Prediction of mental illness

Twitter

Classical machine learning algorithms

0.89 AUC with RF

44

Identification of PTSD among military personnel

Self-reported service exposures and a range of validated self-report measures

Classical machine learning algorithms

97% Accuracy with RF

45

Prediction of PTSD survivors Northern Ugandan rebel war

Counsellors visited residents of the former IDP camps and communities at their homes

RF-CI and LASSO

77.25% Accuracy with RF-CI

46

Classifying PTSD in US veterans

Speech samples from warzone-exposed veterans

RF

0.954 AUC

47

Assessment of PTSD in military personnel

Audio recordings of interviews

GB, DT, NN and boosting

77% Accuracy

This work

Identification of PTSD among Covid survivors

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Twitter

NB, kNN, SVM, RF

83.29% Accuracy with SVM