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Harnessing AI Agents to Advance Research on Refugee Child Mental Health

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Author

Aditya Shrivastava, Komal Gupta, Shraddha Arora

Outline

This paper addresses the mental health challenges of a large number of refugee children who suffer severe psychological trauma in the context of international refugee crises. We present a compact AI-based framework for processing unstructured refugee health data and extracting knowledge about child mental health, and compare two RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, Zephyr-7B-beta and DeepSeek R1-7B, to see how well they handle challenging humanitarian datasets while avoiding hallucination risks. Combining state-of-the-art AI methods with migration research and child psychology, we present a scalable strategy to help policymakers, mental health professionals, and humanitarian agencies better support refugee children and recognize their mental health. Both models performed well, but DeepSeek R1 outperformed Zephyr in correct-response accuracy (0.91).

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present an AI-based framework to effectively process unstructured refugee data and gain insights into child mental health.
The superior performance of the DeepSeek R1 model demonstrates the potential of AI to support the mental health of refugee children.
Contribute to improving decision-making support and strategies for refugee children by policy makers, mental health professionals and humanitarian agencies.
Providing scalable solutions to increase efficiency in supporting large-scale refugee children.
Limitations:
Additional validation of the performance evaluation of the proposed AI model and generalizability studies on various datasets are needed.
Additional research and development is needed for practical field applications (e.g. data collection, real-time utilization of models, etc.).
A deeper discussion is needed on ethical considerations (data privacy, algorithmic bias, etc.).
Only two models were compared and analyzed. More models need to be compared and analyzed to draw generalized conclusions.
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