Relationship Between Depression and the Use of Mobile Technologies and Social Media Among Adolescents: Umbrella Review

Torre, Jorge Arias de la; Puigdomènech, Elisa; García, Xavier Gironès; Valderas, José M; Eiroá-Orosa, Francisco José; Fernández‐Villa, Tania; Molina, A.; Martín, Vicente; Serrano‐Blanco, Antoni; Alonso, Jordi; Espallargues, Mireia

doi:10.2196/16388

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“…However, other studies found only a weak association between digital technology use and adolescent well-being [ 32 ]. Despite plenty of epidemiologic studies, the overall evidence of an association between screen time and symptoms of mental health problems is still uncertain: among 7 systematic reviews (3 meta-analyses) that selected 11–70 studies and 5582–46,015 participants, only 2 reported significant associations between social media and depressive symptoms [ 33 ]. The type of screen time may play also a main role.…”

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Symptoms of mental health problems among Italian adolescents in 2017–2018 school year: a multicenter cross-sectional study

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Triassi

Loperto

et al. 2021

Environ Health Prev Med

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Background Identifying individual and contextual factors that influence adolescent well-being is a research priority. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of symptoms of mental health problems and some related factors in Italian adolescents in 2017–2018. Methods The present study was a cross-sectional survey among 3002 students aged 15–16 years who resided in two Italian provinces, in North and South Italy. Symptoms of mental health problems were assessed using the SDQ and CES-DC, and students’ risk-taking behaviors and school climate perception were assessed. All information was collected anonymously. Logistic regression models were used to assess the associations of tobacco and alcohol use, screen time, bullying, and school climate with symptoms of mental health problems. Results One student out of five reported symptoms of mental health problems, with a more than double proportion among girls than boys (28.7% vs 10.4% with depressive symptoms, respectively). Thirty percent and 40% of students smoked tobacco or drank alcoholic beverages at least once in the past month, and more than 40% reported being victims or authors of bullying in the past 6 months. Smoking behavior, alcohol consumption, screen time, bullying, and negative school climate had 1.2- to 3.3-fold increased odds of symptoms of mental health problems without substantial differences between sexes and geographical areas. Conclusions Tobacco and alcohol use, screen time, bullying, and school climate were independently associated with symptoms of mental health problems in a large sample of 15–16-year-old Italian adolescents without substantial gender and geographical differences.

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Symptoms of mental health problems among Italian adolescents in 2017–2018 school year: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Donato

Triassi

Loperto

et al. 2021

Environ Health Prev Med

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“…Therefore, instead of adding another review of empirical studies, we decided to conduct an umbrella review, also called a meta-review, which is a synthesis of existing literature reviews [9]. Three earlier umbrella reviews have summarized effects of SMU on mental health [10][11][12], but two of them did not focus on adolescents, and none included the 19 reviews published in 2020 and 2021. The aims of our umbrella review were to identify and discuss: (1) general characteristics of existing reviews, such as the type of review (meta-analytic, systematic, narrative); (2) the conceptualization of SMU and mental health or its constituent outcomes; (3) the interpretation of the effects of SMU on these outcomes (e.g., weak, inconsistent, strong); and…”

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Social Media Use and its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence

Valkenburg¹,

Meier²,

Beyens³

2021

Preprint

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Literature reviews on how social media use affects adolescent mental health have accumulated at an unprecedented rate of late. Yet, a higher-level integration of the evidence is still lacking. We fill this gap with an up-to-date umbrella review, a review of reviews published between 2019 and mid 2021. Our search yielded 25 reviews: seven meta-analyses, nine systematic, and nine narrative reviews. Results showed that most reviews interpreted the associations between social media use and mental health as “weak” or “inconsistent,” whereas a few qualified the same associations as “substantial” and “deleterious.” We summarize the gaps identified in the reviews, provide an explanation for their diverging interpretations, and suggest several avenues for future research.

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“…Instead, this type of research uses questionnaires to collect data. For example, scholars such as Jorge distributed questionnaires in online communities, exploring the relationship between mobile technology and the perceived social support of depression patients [35]. According to the above literature review, we found that the current application of media richness theory in online psychological counseling lacks research on the mixed effects of media nesting.…”

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Are Diverse Media Better than a Single Medium? The Relationship between Mixed Media and Perceived Effect from the Perspective of Online Psychological Counseling

Liu

Gao

2021

IJERPH

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The progress of new media has promoted the development of online health consultations. Previous research has investigated the impact of media richness on user satisfaction; however, little attention has been given to the mixed effects of the nesting of multiple media. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact and differences of the use of single or mixed media on users’ perceived effect from the perspectives of social support and satisfaction by mining user reviews on online health platforms. The data were collected from a professional online psychological counseling platform. We collected data on 48,807 reviews from 11,694 users. Text annotation and sentiment analysis were then used to extract variable eigenvalues from the reviews. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and hierarchical regression analysis were used for statistical analysis. The results show that mixed media with different richness has a significant impact on the users’ perceived effects. Among them, compared to “text + audio,” using “text + audio + video/face to face” can significantly improve the users’ perceived social support and satisfaction. However, compared to single medium, mixed media with higher richness may not necessarily achieve a better effect. We found that the inclusion of “video/face to face” mixed media significantly reduced the users’ perceived social support and satisfaction compared to text or audio use alone. These research results complement the blank media richness theory in the field of online health care and provide guidance for improving the personalized customization of online psychological counseling platforms.

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Relationship Between Depression and the Use of Mobile Technologies and Social Media Among Adolescents: Umbrella Review

Cited by 45 publications

References 33 publications

Symptoms of mental health problems among Italian adolescents in 2017–2018 school year: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Symptoms of mental health problems among Italian adolescents in 2017–2018 school year: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Social Media Use and its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence

Are Diverse Media Better than a Single Medium? The Relationship between Mixed Media and Perceived Effect from the Perspective of Online Psychological Counseling

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