According to a survey conducted in the United States in March 2024, 35 percent of adults reported that they had taken an extended break from social media because it was harming their mental health. Overall, 51 percent of respondents had never taken an extended break from social networks fo...
This will enable a strengthened and more nuanced public dialogue on the health impacts of social media. There are several important caveats and limitations in this study. First, due to the timing of what will likely be lengthy legal processes, we only examine here the pretrial filings. We ...
Public isolated due to the early quarantine regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) increasingly used more social media platforms. Contradictory claims regarding the effect of social media use on mental health needs to be resolved. The purpose of the study was to summarise the association betw...
Research indicates that “the strength of family and relationships with friends is related to happiness and life satisfaction, directly as well as indirectly through an impact on health.” The positive connections of friends contribute to a more rewarding life. We know that we are social by ...
Multi-Task Learning for Mental Health using Social Media Text Adrian Benton Johns Hopkins University adrian@cs.jhu.edu Margaret Mitchell Microsoft Research∗ mmitchellai@google.com Dirk Hovy University of Copenhagen mail@dirkhovy.com Abstract We introduce initial groundwork for esti- mating suicide ...
First study to examine three mechanisms by which very frequent use of social media may harm mental health suggests efforts should be made to reduce young people's exposure to harmful content, and the impact it has on healthy activities (such as sleep and
In a major report on youth health and wellbeing by an independent WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission (Clark et al., 2020), the coinciding rise in social media use amongst youth over recent years is identified as a concern warranting attention due to possible impacts on mental health and wellbeing....
For all the concerns about social media, it’s actually technology that may hold the key to the youth mental health crisis. After all, Gen Z is considered to be largely tech natives and embracing all things digital. One particular platform, Mightier, has been clinically validated to support...
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the world’s standard tool to capture mortality and morbidity data. It organizes and codes health information that is used for statistics and epidemiology, health care management, allocation of resources, monitoring and evaluation, research, primary...
Meanwhile, Dawn Irwin was worried her daughter's mental health may take a turn for the worse when the pandemic first started. She was right to be concerned: Her daughter's anxiety was exacerbated due to coronavirus. She was terrified of leaving the house and would have a bath th...