• Evidence from a variety of cross-sectional, longitudinal and empirical studies implicate
smartphone and social media use in the increase in mental distress, self-injurious behaviour …

Importance Children and young people's reports of experiences of adverse childhood
events have increased in recent years, and this trend has been associated with an elevated …

Abstract Drawing from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH; N= 611,880),
a nationally representative survey of US adolescents and adults, we assess age, period, and …

Importance Ensuring the well-being of the 73 million children in the United States is critical
for improving the nation's health and influencing children's long-term outcomes as they grow …

An important 2019 paper applied a novel analytic technique called Specification Curve
Analysis (SCA) to data from three large-scale community samples to investigate the …

Adolescents spend a substantial and increasing amount of time using digital media
(smartphones, computers, social media, gaming, Internet), but existing studies do not agree …

Importance Suicide is a leading cause of death among youth aged 10 to 19 years in the
United States, with rates traditionally higher in male than in female youth. Recent national …

Introduction: Self-harm presentations in children and young people have increased
internationally over the last decade. The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to worsen …

Discussion| Obesity changes the association between total body weight and fat-free mass.
The volume of distribution of a medication is therefore variable, according to its lipid …

Importance To prevent suicide deaths, acute care settings need tools to ensure individuals
at risk of suicide access mental health care and remain safe until they do so. Objective To …