Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: and post hoc pairwise contrasts). Negative-valence scores were found for 19.5% of publications relating to psychiatry, compared with 6.1% for cardiology, 6.1% for oncology, and 10.7% for neurology. Results were similar in analyses restricted to publications with abstracts, those reporting original research, those published before the Covid-19 pandemic, or those published in 2020 or later. In logistic regression models adjusting for journal, publication year, article type, and presence or absence of abstract, psychiatric publications were significantly more likely to be negatively valenced than all other specialties. Permuting the article specialty did not meaningfully change estimates of valence, indicating that the results were not attributable to psychiatry-specific terms. Published psychiatry articles were on average more likely than other specialty articles to reflect negative valence about the specialty. Whether this difference reflects volume and type of submission, or bias among editors or reviewers, merits further study. Regardless of the mechanism, the potential contribution of these articles to perpetuating negative attitudes toward psychiatry is also worthy of further investigation.
Source: NEJM AI
DOI: 10.1056/aics2300066
Authors: Roy H. Perlis, David S. Jones
Institutions: Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4388524928