= Trauma Ontologies =
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PTSD patients often have fragmented memories of their trauma and are very reluctant to recall them, requir- ing detailed questions to stimulate memory retrieval.
The TraumaOntologies module is a module that generates targeted questions. With the help of targeted questions, the system can assist in effectively recalling events, the surroundings in which they took place and the feelings associated with them.
For example, the questions can focus on the patient's specific situation. Was the veteran serving in Afghanistan or Lebanon? Did the traumatic event happen indoors or outdoors? Depending on the answers given, the computer system automatically moves to the next step, for example asking about the weather that day or army base served in. As you can imagine, the questions for someone who has suffered sexual abuse are more likely to be about the living room and the perpetrator.
To do this, the module uses an ontology that fits the required treatment. More detailed, it contains the relevant relations between possible events, places, objects, and can address these in various ways such as top-down (collect all relevant items first, then dig deeper one item at a time) or depth first.
Provided with this module are a number of examples:
||treatment area||name of owl file||
||child sexual abuse||CSA.owl||
||army post traumatic stress, general||WAR.owl||
||army post traumatic stress, Afghanistan||WAR_Af.owl||
The module is highly adaptable to your own situation: you can use your own owl and csv files to drive the dialog and to handle specific translation requirements. The traversal strategy of the questions can also be controlled. The technical sections below describe in detail how this is done.
The module can be easily attached to our general translation module from our [https://tracinsy.ewi.tudelft.nl/pubtrac/Utilities Utilities project]. This is demonstrated in
our SimpleGUI demonstration.
This package can be included with the following maven code
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