Assessing Mood With the Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence Chatbot (IDEABot): Development and Implementation Study

Anna Viduani   ^{1, 2} , BA, MSc ;   Victor Cosenza   ³ , BA ;   Helen L Fisher   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Claudia Buchweitz   ^{1, 2} , BA, MSc ;   Jader Piccin   ^{1, 2} , MD, MSc ;   Rivka Pereira   ^{1, 2} , BA ;   Brandon A Kohrt   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Valeria Mondelli   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Alastair van Heerden   ⁸ , PhD ;   Ricardo Matsumura Araújo   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Christian Kieling   ^{1, 2 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

² Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

³ Center for Technological Advancement, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil

⁴ Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

⁵ Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Society and Mental Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

⁶ Division of Global Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

⁷ Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

⁸ Centre for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

*these authors contributed equally