Prompting compassion: Mitigating stigmatizing language related to mental illness with generative AI
Using stigmatizing language to describe patients with mental illness can cause harm. Stigmas are shared perceptions that certain individuals are less deserving of compassion and care, which can impact the way patients are treated by healthcare providers. Stigmas can be reinforced through health record documentation, when patients are discredited, blamed, or assigned negative characteristics. The…
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Many technologies are being developed for long-term care settings to improve safety and quality of care, such as behavioural health monitoring technologies to support the assessment of responsive behaviours in dementia. We need to make sure that these technologies are designed in a way that promotes compassionate care of people with dementia and avoids stigma.…
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