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Maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent

Social media usage impacts upon the mental health and wellbeing of young people, yet there is not enough evidence to determine who is affected, how and to what extent. While it has widened and strengthened communication networks for many, the dangers posed to at-risk youth are serious. Social media...

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Autores principales: Leightley, Daniel, Bye, Amanda, Carter, Ben, Trevillion, Kylee, Branthonne-Foster, Stella, Liakata, Maria, Wood, Anthony, Ougrin, Dennis, Orben, Amy, Ford, Tamsin, Dutta, Rina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9872114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36704745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1096253
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author Leightley, Daniel
Bye, Amanda
Carter, Ben
Trevillion, Kylee
Branthonne-Foster, Stella
Liakata, Maria
Wood, Anthony
Ougrin, Dennis
Orben, Amy
Ford, Tamsin
Dutta, Rina
author_facet Leightley, Daniel
Bye, Amanda
Carter, Ben
Trevillion, Kylee
Branthonne-Foster, Stella
Liakata, Maria
Wood, Anthony
Ougrin, Dennis
Orben, Amy
Ford, Tamsin
Dutta, Rina
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description Social media usage impacts upon the mental health and wellbeing of young people, yet there is not enough evidence to determine who is affected, how and to what extent. While it has widened and strengthened communication networks for many, the dangers posed to at-risk youth are serious. Social media data offers unique insights into the minute details of a user's online life. Timely consented access to data could offer many opportunities to transform understanding of its effects on mental wellbeing in different contexts. However, limited data access by researchers is preventing such advances from being made. Our multidisciplinary authorship includes a lived experience adviser, academic and practicing psychiatrists, and academic psychology, as well as computational, statistical, and qualitative researchers. In this Perspective article, we propose a framework to support secure and confidential access to social media platform data for research to make progress toward better public mental health.
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spelling pubmed-98721142023-01-25 Maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent Leightley, Daniel Bye, Amanda Carter, Ben Trevillion, Kylee Branthonne-Foster, Stella Liakata, Maria Wood, Anthony Ougrin, Dennis Orben, Amy Ford, Tamsin Dutta, Rina Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Social media usage impacts upon the mental health and wellbeing of young people, yet there is not enough evidence to determine who is affected, how and to what extent. While it has widened and strengthened communication networks for many, the dangers posed to at-risk youth are serious. Social media data offers unique insights into the minute details of a user's online life. Timely consented access to data could offer many opportunities to transform understanding of its effects on mental wellbeing in different contexts. However, limited data access by researchers is preventing such advances from being made. Our multidisciplinary authorship includes a lived experience adviser, academic and practicing psychiatrists, and academic psychology, as well as computational, statistical, and qualitative researchers. In this Perspective article, we propose a framework to support secure and confidential access to social media platform data for research to make progress toward better public mental health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9872114/ /pubmed/36704745 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1096253 Text en Copyright © 2023 Leightley, Bye, Carter, Trevillion, Branthonne-Foster, Liakata, Wood, Ougrin, Orben, Ford and Dutta. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Leightley, Daniel
Bye, Amanda
Carter, Ben
Trevillion, Kylee
Branthonne-Foster, Stella
Liakata, Maria
Wood, Anthony
Ougrin, Dennis
Orben, Amy
Ford, Tamsin
Dutta, Rina
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title_short Maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent
title_sort maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative: social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9872114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36704745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1096253
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