PatientEngagementHIT (5/22, Heath) reports, “One in five patients experience some cost-related barrier to medication adherence, a… JAMA Network Open report showed, meaning their drugs are too expensive for them to take as prescribed.” In general, “researchers found that prescription drug costs are seriously impeding patients’ care management and daily life,” since for “some patients, this means rationing pills to make them last longer,” and “for others, it means not filling the prescription at all.”

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Medscape (5/22, Anderson, Subscription Publication) reports, “Only 11% of eating disorder apps protect the privacy of users as is mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), according to” findings presented at the American Psychiatric Association 2023 Annual Meeting. Investigators came to this conclusion after conducting “a review of commercially available eating disorder apps by searching the Apple and Google play stores using key phrases such as ‘eating disorder,’ ‘anorexia,’ and ‘binge eating disorder.’” Thirty-six apps were then reviewed “using the 105 questions based on the APA’s app evaluation model, which covers categories such as efficacy, privacy, accessibility, and clinical applicability.”

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Medscape (5/22, Brooks, Subscription Publication) reports, “Patients taking antidepressant medication, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), often report emotional blunting even as their depression eases,” according to the findings of a 25-study “scoping review” presented in a poster at the American Psychiatric Association 2023 Annual Meeting.

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Medscape (5/22, Brooks, Subscription Publication) reports, “Young people who [died by] suicide using a gun are often introduced to guns through family traditions and use the family gun to [die by] suicide,” researchers concluded after conducting “11 ‘psychological autopsy interviews’ with the loved ones of nine young people aged 17-21 who died by gun-related suicide.” The study team “interviewed six mothers, three fathers, one sibling, and one close friend.” The findings were presented in a poster at the American Psychiatric Association 2023 Annual Meeting.

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MedPage Today (5/22, DePeau-Wilson) reports, “Mental healthcare” professionals “may want to consider stepping up their TikTok game, according to an analysis of social media-based information on dissociative identity disorder (DID),” according to findings presented at the American Psychiatric Association 2023 Annual Meeting. In their “review of 97 TikToks featuring DID information,” the study team found that “just 5.2% were considered useful, 10.3% were misleading, and 84.5% were neither useful or misleading.”

According to Medscape (5/22, Anderson, Subscription Publication), the study team also looked at 60 YouTube videos, determining that “51.7% were useful, 6.6% were misleading, and 34.7% were neither.” The YouTube videos of highest quality “were from educational organizations and healthcare professionals,” and “the least accurate videos came from independent users and film/TV sources.”

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