Published on in Vol 11 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/60125, first published .
Peer Relationships Are a Direct Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: Interpretable Machine Learning Analysis of 2 Large Cohort Studies

Peer Relationships Are a Direct Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: Interpretable Machine Learning Analysis of 2 Large Cohort Studies

Peer Relationships Are a Direct Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: Interpretable Machine Learning Analysis of 2 Large Cohort Studies

Heiner Stuke   1, 2 , MD ;   Robert Schlack   3 , PhD ;   Michael Erhart   4 , PhD ;   Anne Kaman   4 , PhD ;   Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer   4 , PhD ;   Christopher Irrgang   1 , PhD

1 Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research of the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

2 Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Charité Campus Mitte, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany

3 Department B Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

4 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Corresponding Author:

  • Heiner Stuke, MD
  • Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research of the Robert Koch-Institute
  • Nordufer 20
  • Berlin 13353
  • Germany
  • Phone: 49 30 18754 211
  • Email: stukeh@rki.de