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ArticleNursing inquiry2025

Is Generative AI Increasing the Risk for Technology-Mediated Trauma Among Vulnerable Populations?

Abdul-Fatawu Abdulai

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Article in Nursing inquiry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Abdul-Fatawu AbdulaiSchool of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9395-8642

Funding

The author received no specific funding for this work.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) has led to an increased reliance on AI-generated content for designing and deploying digital health interventions. While generative AI has the potential to facilitate and automate healthcare, there are concerns that AI-generated content and AI-generated health advice could trigger, perpetuate, or exacerbate prior traumatic experiences among vulnerable populations. In this discussion article, I examined how generative-AI-powered digital health interventions could trigger, perpetuate, or exacerbate emotional trauma among vulnerable populations who rely on digital health interventions as complementary or alternative sources of seeking health services or information. I then proposed actionable strategies for mitigating AI-generated trauma in the context of digital health interventions. The arguments raised in this article are expected to shift the focus of AI practitioners against prioritizing dominant narratives in AI algorithms into seriously considering the needs of vulnerable minority groups who are at the greatest risk for trauma but are often invisible in AI data sets, AI algorithms, and their resultant technologies.

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Artificial IntelligenceVulnerable PopulationsHumansWounds and Injuriesartificial intelligencedigital healthemotional traumagenerative AItechnology‐mediated trauma

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PMID39560355
PMCPMC11773440

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