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Smartphones, social media use and youth mental health | Synapse

February 9, 2020Open Access

Smartphones, social media use and youth mental health

EAElia Abi‐JaoudeUniversity Health Network KNKarline Treurnicht NaylorMount Sinai Hospital APAntonio PignatielloUniversity of Toronto

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KEY POINTS In the last decade, increasing mental distress and treatment for mental health conditions among youth in North America has paralleled a steep rise in the use of smartphones and social media by children and adolescents. In Ontario, the proportion of teenagers reporting moderate to serious

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7bb6be57cdc1cc9ae29d2 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.190434

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