Published on in Vol 14 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/71819, first published .
Balancing Privacy and Utility in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Research: Retrospective Cohort Study on Synthetic Data Generation

Balancing Privacy and Utility in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Research: Retrospective Cohort Study on Synthetic Data Generation

Balancing Privacy and Utility in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Research: Retrospective Cohort Study on Synthetic Data Generation

Mounir Haizoune   1 , MSc ;   Bennett L Leventhal   2 , MD ;   Dipendra Pant   3, 4 , MSc ;   Øystein Nytrø   3, 4 , PhD ;   Kaban Koochakpour   3, 4 , PhD ;   Roman A Koposov   5 , MD, PhD ;   Lars Ravn Øhlckers   6 , MSci ;   Norbert Skokauskas   3, 7 , MD, PhD

1 Department of Analytics, Western Norway Regional Health Authority, Stavanger, Norway

2 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

3 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

4 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinic of Mental Health Care, St. Olav University Hospital Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

5 Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

6 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Addiction, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway

7 Regional Center for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Trondheim, Norway

Corresponding Author:

  • Norbert Skokauskas, MD, PhD
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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  • Campus Øya
  • Trondheim 7030
  • Norway
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  • Email: norbert.skokauskas@ntnu.no