JAMA Network January 24, 2024
A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recommends the development of new industry standards to limit the potential harms of social media on adolescent mental health while bolstering the possible benefits. The report notes that over the past 15 years, an increase in young people’s smartphone usage has coincided with a decline in mental health, a deleterious association that US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, warned against in an advisory last May.
For Kara Bagot, MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles and an editor at JAMA Psychiatry, the report is a welcome addition to the advisory, which she has critiqued for its lack of specificity.
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