MHealth: Potentials and Risks for Addressing Mental Health and Well-Being Issues Among Nepali Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents are slowly being recognized as a generation, worldwide, that may require different policy approaches to improve staggering statistics on their failing well-being, including mental health. By providing the support to allow the next generation to achieve better mental health outcomes, they are going to be more economically successful and the future economic growth of nations can be better assured. Adoption of mobile-based health interventions (e.g., mHealth) has garnered a lot of attention toward this end. While mHealth interventions are growing in popularity, many researchers/policy-makers appear to have neglected assessing potential (indirect) costs/negative consequences from their use. Evidence from the developed world shows strong associations between extensive cell phone use

SUBMITTER: Yilmaz SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8102693 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature