Reliability and validity of a widely-available AI tool for assessment of stress based on speech

Cigna’s online stress management toolkit includes an AI-based tool that purports to evaluate a person’s psychological stress level based on analysis of their speech, the Cigna StressWaves Test (CSWT). In this study, we evaluate the claim that the CSWT is a “clinical grade” tool via an independent va...

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Autores principales: Yawer, Batul A., Liss, Julie, Berisha, Visar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10657363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37980431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47153-1
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description Cigna’s online stress management toolkit includes an AI-based tool that purports to evaluate a person’s psychological stress level based on analysis of their speech, the Cigna StressWaves Test (CSWT). In this study, we evaluate the claim that the CSWT is a “clinical grade” tool via an independent validation. The results suggest that the CSWT is not repeatable and has poor convergent validity; the public availability of the CSWT despite insufficient validation data highlights concerns regarding premature deployment of digital health tools for stress and anxiety management.
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spelling pubmed-106573632023-11-18 Reliability and validity of a widely-available AI tool for assessment of stress based on speech Yawer, Batul A. Liss, Julie Berisha, Visar Sci Rep Article Cigna’s online stress management toolkit includes an AI-based tool that purports to evaluate a person’s psychological stress level based on analysis of their speech, the Cigna StressWaves Test (CSWT). In this study, we evaluate the claim that the CSWT is a “clinical grade” tool via an independent validation. The results suggest that the CSWT is not repeatable and has poor convergent validity; the public availability of the CSWT despite insufficient validation data highlights concerns regarding premature deployment of digital health tools for stress and anxiety management. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10657363/ /pubmed/37980431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47153-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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