Developing a Biomedical Information System for Clinical Assessments and Interventions of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Patients Belonging to YMSM of Color with HIV Using Multidimensional Scaling Analysis and Paired Comparisons Techniques.

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In mental health and substance abuse treatment, individualized assessments provide information on the specific thoughts and cognitive processes influencing a person's behavior, emotional responses, and psychological functioning. Given the lack of automated assessment procedures or individualized clinical interventions in the growing health disparities in the South Los Angeles of USA, we developed a novel system using idiographic techniques to automatically and quickly generate individualized patient assessment data for use in clinical interventions.