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The successful BCYR pilot demonstrated its ability to replace traditional risk-based screens. However, some health professionals still overrely on psychological risk scores, often overlooking the contextual circumstances of Aboriginal mothers, their cultural strengths, and mitigating protective factors. This highlights the need for new tools to improve clinical decision-making.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We explored different explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)\u2013powered machine learning techniques for developing culturally informed, strengths-based predictive modeling of perinatal psychological distress among Aboriginal mothers. The model identifies and evaluates influential protective and risk factors while offering transparent explanations for AI-driven decisions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We used deidentified data from 293 Aboriginal mothers who participated in the BCYR program between September 2021 and June 2023 at 6 health care services in Perth and regional Western Australia. The original dataset includes variables spanning cultural strengths, protective factors, life events, worries, relationships, childhood experiences, family and domestic violence, and substance use. After applying feature selection and expert input, 20 variables were chosen as predictors. The Kessler-5 scale was used as an indicator of perinatal psychological distress. Several machine learning models, including random forest (RF), CatBoost (CB), light gradient-boosting machine (LightGBM), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), support vector machine (SVM), and explainable boosting machine (EBM), were developed and compared for predictive performance. To make the black-box model interpretable, post hoc explanation techniques including Shapley additive explanations and local interpretable model-agnostic explanations were applied.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The EBM outperformed other models (accuracy=0.849, 95% CI 0.8170-0.8814; F1-score=0.771, 95% CI 0.7169-0.8245; area under the curve=0.821, 95% CI 0.7829-0.8593) followed by RF (accuracy=0.829, 95% CI 0.7960-0.8617; F1-score=0.736, 95% CI 0.6859-0.7851; area under the curve=0.795, 95% CI 0.7581-0.8318). Explanations from EBM, Shapley additive explanations, and local interpretable model-agnostic explanations identified consistent patterns of key influential factors, including questions related to \u201cFeeling Lonely,\u201d \u201cBlaming Herself,\u201d \u201cMakes Family Proud,\u201d \u201cLife Not Worth Living,\u201d and \u201cManaging Day-to-Day.\u201d At the individual level, where responses are highly personal, these XAI techniques provided case-specific insights through visual representations, distinguishing between protective and risk factors and illustrating their impact on predictions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study shows the potential of XAI-driven models to predict psychological distress in Aboriginal mothers and provide clear, human-interpretable explanations of how important factors interact and influence outcomes. These models may help health professionals make more informed, non-biased decisions in Aboriginal perinatal mental health screenings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2196\/68030","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,16]],"date-time":"2025-05-16T17:58:03Z","timestamp":1747418283000},"page":"e68030","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Investigating Protective and Risk Factors and Predictive Insights for Aboriginal Perinatal Mental Health: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approach"],"prefix":"10.2196","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5258-0532","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guanjin","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-4165-9938","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hachem","family":"Bennamoun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1854-4300","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wai Hang","family":"Kwok","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-4602-7456","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jenny Paola Ortega","family":"Quimbayo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-6598-7913","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bridgette","family":"Kelly","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-5156-2402","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Trish","family":"Ratajczak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6037-2565","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rhonda","family":"Marriott","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3140-7036","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roz","family":"Walker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7793-4202","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jayne","family":"Kotz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1010","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.yhbeh.2015.08.008"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2023.0069"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12884-022-05039-6"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj-2023-075414"},{"key":"ref5","year":"2021","journal-title":"Child Protection Australia 2019-20. child welfare series no. 74. 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