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Call for Docs to Combat False TikTok Misinformation on Rare Psych Disorder

June 8, 2023 • 9:23 a.m.

Call for Docs to Combat False TikTok Misinformation on Rare Psych Disorder

Medscape, May 22, 2023

"Healthcare professionals need to make engaging content to post on social media platforms like YouTube and especially TikTok, to reach wider audiences and combat misinformation about (dissociative identity disorder)," fourth-year UTMB student Isreal Bladimir Munoz tells Medscape. Munoz studied the content on the disorder being shared on social media platforms like TikTok and found much of the information being shared was misleading or not useful. This news was also shared on Psychiatric Times and Healio.

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Call for Docs to Combat False TikTok Misinformation on Rare Psych Disorder

June 8, 2023 • 9:23 a.m.

Call for Docs to Combat False TikTok Misinformation on Rare Psych Disorder

Medscape, May 22, 2023

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