Physician Perspectives on the Potential Benefits and Risks of Applying Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatric Medicine: Qualitative Study.

IF 5.8 2区医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

Jmir Mental Health Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI:10.2196/64414

Austin M Stroud, Susan H Curtis, Isabel B Weir, Jeremiah J Stout, Barbara A Barry, William V Bobo, Arjun P Athreya, Richard R Sharp

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Abstract

Background: As artificial intelligence (AI) tools are integrated more widely in psychiatric medicine, it is important to consider the impact these tools will have on clinical practice.

Objective: This study aimed to characterize physician perspectives on the potential impact AI tools will have in psychiatric medicine.

Methods: We interviewed 42 physicians (21 psychiatrists and 21 family medicine practitioners). These interviews used detailed clinical case scenarios involving the use of AI technologies in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric conditions. Interviews were transcribed and subsequently analyzed using qualitative analysis methods.

Results: Physicians highlighted multiple potential benefits of AI tools, including potential support for optimizing pharmaceutical efficacy, reducing administrative burden, aiding shared decision-making, and increasing access to health services, and were optimistic about the long-term impact of these technologies. This optimism was tempered by concerns about potential near-term risks to both patients and themselves including misguiding clinical judgment, increasing clinical burden, introducing patient harms, and creating legal liability.

Conclusions: Our results highlight the importance of considering specialist perspectives when deploying AI tools in psychiatric medicine.

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在精神医学中应用人工智能的潜在益处和风险：定性研究。

背景：随着人工智能（AI）工具在精神医学中的应用越来越广泛，考虑这些工具对临床实践的影响是很重要的。目的：本研究旨在描述医生对人工智能工具在精神医学中的潜在影响的看法。方法：对42名内科医生（21名精神科医生和21名家庭医生）进行访谈。这些访谈使用了详细的临床案例场景，涉及在精神疾病的评估、诊断和治疗中使用人工智能技术。访谈记录下来，随后使用定性分析方法进行分析。结果：医生强调了人工智能工具的多种潜在好处，包括优化药物功效、减轻行政负担、帮助共同决策和增加获得卫生服务的机会，并对这些技术的长期影响持乐观态度。这种乐观情绪被对患者和自身的潜在近期风险的担忧所缓和，这些风险包括误导临床判断、增加临床负担、引入患者伤害和产生法律责任。结论：我们的研究结果强调了在精神医学中部署人工智能工具时考虑专家观点的重要性。

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来源期刊

Jmir Mental Health Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health

CiteScore

10.80

自引率

3.80%

发文量

104

审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： JMIR Mental Health (JMH, ISSN 2368-7959) is a PubMed-indexed, peer-reviewed sister journal of JMIR, the leading eHealth journal (Impact Factor 2016: 5.175). JMIR Mental Health focusses on digital health and Internet interventions, technologies and electronic innovations (software and hardware) for mental health, addictions, online counselling and behaviour change. This includes formative evaluation and system descriptions, theoretical papers, review papers, viewpoint/vision papers, and rigorous evaluations.