Medscape (7/16, MacReady, Subscription Publication) reports, “Mobile apps that offer advice on managing mental health may ‘medicalize’ normal ups and downs and encourage the overdiagnosis of certain conditions,” researchers concluded after conducting “a qualitative content analysis of advertising materials for 61 popular mental health apps to determine how the apps frame the issues of mental health and illness, and how that in turn shapes perceptions of the pattern, causation, and management of mental health problems.” The findingswere published in the July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
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