Abstract
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most common mental disorder in the present day as all individuals' lives, irrespective of being employed or unemployed, is going through the depression phase at least once in their lifetime. In simple terms, it is a mood disturbance that can persist for an individual for more than a few weeks to months. In MDD, in most cases, the individuals do not consult a professional, and even if being consulted, the results are not significant as the individuals find it challenging to identify whether they are depressed or not. Depression, most of the time, cooccurs with anxiety and leads to suicide in few cases, among the employees, who are about to handle the pressure at work and home and mostly unnoticing such problems. This is why this work aims to analyze the IT employees who are mostly working with targets. The artificial neural network, which is modeled loosely like the brain, has proved in recent days that it can perform better than most of the classification algorithms. This study has implemented the multilayered neural perceptron and experimented with the backpropagation technique over the data samples collected from IT professionals. This study aims to develop a model that can classify depressed individuals from those who are not depressed effectively with the data collected from them manually and through sensors. The results show that deep-MLP with backpropagation outperforms other machine learning-based models for effective classification.
Highlights
In the present day pandemic scenario, where people always complain about stress, pressure, and anxiety, major depressive disorder is commonly seen as a leading mental disorder across the globe
When someone appears to have intense feelings such as sadness and distress for a considerable period, they might have major depressive disorder [1]. It has high impacts on mental and physical activities to the one suffering from it; there is a higher risk of suicide [2]
Ose who have been suffering from Major depressive disorder (MDD) tend to feel uninterested in doing the activities they enjoyed doing once. It affects their moods and behavior and finds difficulty in doing day-to-day activities. Most of those who die by killing themselves are found to have mental disorders that are treatable, mostly only due to depression they are doing so. e suicide rate is said to be around 15% among depressed people [3]
Summary
In the present day pandemic scenario, where people always complain about stress, pressure, and anxiety, major depressive disorder is commonly seen as a leading mental disorder across the globe. When someone appears to have intense feelings such as sadness and distress for a considerable period, they might have major depressive disorder [1] It has high impacts on mental and physical activities to the one suffering from it; there is a higher risk of suicide [2]. Ose who have been suffering from MDD tend to feel uninterested in doing the activities they enjoyed doing once It affects their moods and behavior and finds difficulty in doing day-to-day activities. Most of those who die by killing themselves are found to have mental disorders that are treatable, mostly only due to depression they are doing so. Major depressive disorder is a treatable mental disorder that appears when the individual is too stressed out because of various reasons of one’s life including hormonal changes [4]
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