Development, system design, safety, and performance metrics of a conversational agent for reducing depressive and anxious symptoms based on a large language model: The MHAI study

• David Villarreal-Zegarra ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dvillareal@cientifica.edu.pe, david.villarreal@digitalhealth.pe

  Affiliation Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2222-4764

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• Yscenia Paredes-Gonzales,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Digital Health Research Center, Lima, Peru

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• Andrea Dámaso-Román,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica, Lima, Peru

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• Judith Quiñones-Inga,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Digital Health Research Center, Lima, Peru

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• Gianfranco Centeno-Terrazas,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Digital Health Research Center, Lima, Peru

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• Yan Pieer Alexis-Montalban Lozada

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto Peruano de Orientación Psicológica, Lima, Peru, Universidad César Vallejo, Piura, Perú

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9278-0654

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