Self-help psychological intervention for young individuals during the post-COVID-19 era: development of a PST chatbot using GPT-4

These findings support the application of the PST chatbot in post-COVID-19 era psychological interventions, particularly in assisting users with identifying problems and exploring solutions. Although the chatbot did not achieve significant improvement in human-computer relationship quality, its general acceptability and broad applicability demonstrate great potential in the field of mental health, highlighting the value of large language models in promoting self-help mental health interventions as a supplementary tool to existing resources.