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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