Orthosomnia: Are Some Patients Taking the Quantified Self Too Far?

“…The present study was limited to a sample of healthy university students and we focused on a limited number of symptoms. Our algorithm paradigm may seem far removed from clinical practice, yet there are case studies illustrating, for example, that suggestive feedback from wearable sleep trackers may encourage people to believe that they have a sleep disturbance (Baron, Abbott, Jao, Manalo, & Mullen, 2017). In future, researchers may want to address how iatrogenic interventions such as extensive symptom exploration may worsen symptoms in vulnerable people (e.g., people with psychopathology and/or low education).…”