Helpful or Not? A Qualitative Study on Female Adolescents’ Experience of TikTok When Recovering From Anorexia Nervosa
David K. Sjöström,
Tore de Mendonca Lindström,
Sabina Kapetanovic
et al.
Abstract:ObjectiveThe scientific literature reports on how social media potentially influences eating disorders, although there is a large gap in the specific case of TikToks influence of adolescent's recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN). Our study uses in‐depth interviews with female adolescents primarily suffering from AN to explore how they perceive the social media platform TikTok in relation to their recovery.MethodA total of 14 interviews with female adolescents recovering from AN were conducted and analyzed with … Show more
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