Caregiver's Evaluation of LLM-Generated Treatment Goals for Patients with Severe Mental Illnesses

Abstract

The potential of LLMs to generate context-specific content for psychiatric patients could possibly be used to support treatment. Patients diagnosed with Severe Mental Illnesses face a significant challenge in the realm of goal setting. Caregivers work closely with patients with SMI to establish treatment goals. However, most goals are often immeasurable, hindering their integration into mHealth. This is a missed opportunity since mHealth has the potential to aid healthcare professionals in tracking a patient's progress and help motivate patients to work on their goals using behavior change concepts like personalization and gamification. Recognizing the time-consuming nature of creating measurable goals. This study validates an LLM-powered goal system aiming to provide a time-efficient way of goal creation for patients with SMI, on the quality of the goals it generates in collaboration with caregivers.