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    Predictive analysis in public health using AI
    (UMT, Lahore, 2025) Rabia Hanif; Zara Arshad; Minahil Shafiq; Bareera Aftab
    Anxiety is very common in young adults, but stigma and lack of access make it hard to screen for it regularly. Behavioral proxies might help find it early without being intrusive. This cross-sectional analytical study examined Pakistani young adults (18–25 years) online, utilising the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire R18 (TFEQ-R18) and the Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) to investigate the correlations between eating behaviours and anxiety, and to create an AI-based classifier of anxiety severity based solely on eating patterns. We used standardised Google Forms, informed consent, and ethical approval from the department; we examined 542 complete responses from an online survey across Pakistan (UMT ethics clearance). The eating-behavior instrument demonstrated acceptable reliability (TFEQ-R18 Cronbach’s α=0.841). Spearman correlations indicated that uncontrolled eating (UE) and emotional eating (EE) exhibited a strong correlation with GAD-7 scores (ρ=0.266, p