Self-Diagnosis Literature Review
Below is a list of paper on self-diagnosis and a link to my podcast episode where I review them
Au-Yeung, Sheena, K., Bradley, Louise., Robertson, Ashley, E., Shaw, Rebecca., Baron-Cohen, Simon. & Cassidy, Sarah. (2019). Experience of mental health diagnosis and perceived misdiagnosis in autistic, possibly autistic and non-autistic adults. Autism, 23/6, 1508-1518.
Ayonrinde, Oyedeji. & Michaelson, Simon. (1998). Self-diagnosis and attitude change through the ‘information super highway. Psychiatric Bulletin, 22, 581-583.
Balakrishnan, Aishwarya. & I, Akshaya. (2023). Self-Labelling as Having Mental Health Illness among psychology Student. The International Journal of Indian Psychology, 11/3, 554-569.
Brosnan, Mark. (2020). An Exploratory Study of Dimensional Assessment of the Diagnostic Criteria for Autis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50, 4158-4164.
Chan, Diana. & Sireling, Lester. (2010). ‘I want to be bipolar’… a new phenomenon. The Psychiatrist, 34, 103-105.
Corzine, Anjuli. & Roy, Ananya. (2024). Inside the black mirror: current perspectives on the role of social media in mental illness self-diagnosis. Discover Psychology, 4/40. PODCAST REVIEW
David, Anthony, S. & Deeley, Quinton. (2024). Dangers of self-diagnosis in neuropsychiatry. Psychological Medicine, 1-4
Farnood, Annabel., Johnston, Bridget. & Mair, Frances, S. (2020). A mixed methods systematic review of the effects of patient online self-diagnosing in the ‘smart-phone society’ on the healthcare professional-patient relationship and medical authority. Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 20/253, 1-14.
Fellowes, Sam. (2023). Self-diagnosis in psychiatry and the distribution of social resources, Royal Institute of Philosophy Volume on Public Mental Health, 94, 55-76.
Fellowes, Sam. (2024). Establishing the accuracy of self-diagnosis in psychiatry, Philosophical Psychology, 1-28
Fletcher-Watson, Sue. (2024). What’s in a name? The costs and benefits of a formal autism diagnosis. Autism, 28/2, 257-262.
Giles, David, C. & Newbold, Julie. (2010). Self- and Other-Diagnosis in User-Led Mental Health Online Communitie, Qualitative Health Research, 1-10.
Haltigan, John, D., Pringsheim, Tamara, M. & Rajkumar, Gayathiri. (2023). Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioural psychopathology: Symptoms and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 121, 1-5.
Hasan, Farah., Foster, Melissa, M. Cho, Hyunyi. (2023). Normalizaing Anxiety on Social Media Increases Self-Diangosis of Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Identification (But Not Stigma. Journal of Health Communication, 28, 563-572.
Ismail, Naufal, Arif., Kusumaningtyas, Intan. & Firngadi, Moetrarsi, Sri, Kanapsijah. (2023). Self-diagnosis is associated with knowledge and attitude towards mental illness of university students in Indonesia. The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 59/162, 1-9.
Kapp, Steven, K., Gillepie-Lynch, Kristen., Sherman, Lauren, E. & Hutman, Ted. (2013). Deficit, Difference, or Both? Autism and Neurodiversit, Developmental Psychology, 49/1, 59-71.
Lewis, Laura, Foran. (2017). A Mixed Methods Study of Barriers to Formal Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adult. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Lewis, Laura, Foran. (2016). Exploring the Experience of Self-Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adult. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 30, 575-580.
McDonald, T. A. M. (2020). Autism Identity and the “Lost Generation”: Structural Validation of the Autism Spectrum Identity Scale and Comparison of Diagnosed and Self-Diagnosed Adults on the Autism Spectrum, Autism in Adulthood, 2/1, 13-23.
Milton, Ashlee., Ajmani, Leah., DeVito, Micheal, Ann. & Chancellor, Stevie. (2023). “I see Me Here”: Mental Health Content, Community, and Algorithmic Curation on TikTok. Proceeding of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23)
Mittmann, Gloria., Schrank, Beate. & Steiner-Hofbauer, Verena. (2023). TV Series in Mainstream Media Depicting Autism and Self-Diagnosis of Autism in a General Population of Young Adult, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, PODCAST REVIEW
Müller-Vahl, Kirsten, R., Pisarenko, Anna., Jakubovski, Ewgeni. & Fremer, Carolin. (2022). Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illnes, Brain, 145, 476-480.
Olvera, Caroline., Stebbins, Glenn, T., Goetz, Christopher, G. & Kompoliti, Katie. (2021). Movement Disorders clinical Practice, 8/8, 1200-1205.
Overton, Gayle, L., Marsà-Sambola, Ferran., Martin, Rachael. & Cavenagh, Penny. (2023). Understanding the Self-identification of Autism in Adults: a Scoping Review, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders,
Pulman, Andy. & Taylor, Jacqui. (2012). Munchausen by Internet: Current Research and Future Direction, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14/4, 1-11.
Rutter, Lauren, A., Howard, Jacqueline., Lakhan, Prabhriv., Valdez, Danny., Bollen, Johan. & Lorenzo-Luaces, Lorenzo. (2023). “I Haven’t Been Diagnosed, but I Should Be” – Insight Into Self-diagnoses of Common Mental Health Disorders: Cross-sectional Study, JMIR Formative Research, 7, 1-14. PODCAST REVIEW
Sarrett, Jennifer, C. (2016). Biocertification and Neurodiversity: the Role and Implications of Self-Diagnosis in Autistic Communities, Neuroethics, 9, 23-26.
Schomerus, Georg., Muehlan, Holger., Auer, Charlotte., Horsfield, Philip., Tomczyk, Samuel., Freitag, Simone., Evans-Lacko, Sara., Schmidt, Silke. & Stolzenburg, Susanne. (2019). Validity and psychometric propperties of the Self-Idenitification as Having a Mental Illness Scale (SELF-I) among currently untreated persons with mental health problem. Psychiatry Research, 273, 303-308.
Sukmawati, Diandra, Thufailah., Yusuf, Syamsu. & Nadhirah, Nadia, Aulia. (2023). The Phenomena of Self-Diagnosis of Mental Health In the Era of Mental Health Literac, Journal of Education and Counselling, 4/1, 48-63.
Tse, Jesse, S, Y. & Haslam, Nick. (2024). Broad concepts of mental disorder predict self-diagnosis. SSM-Mental Health
Wimbari, Supra. Kairupan, B, H, Ralph. & Tallei, Trina, Ekawati. (2023). Critical review of self-diagnosis of mental health conditions using artificial intelligence,
Yeung, A. Enoch, Ng. & Abi-Jaoude, Elis. (2022). TikTok and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study of Social Media Content Quality, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 67/12, 899-906