Peer Relationships Are a Direct Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: Interpretable Machine Learning Analysis of 2 Large Cohort Studies.

Journal: JMIR public health and surveillance
PMID: 40354649

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Converging evidence indicates an adolescent mental health crisis in Western societies that has developed and exacerbated over the past decade. The proposed driving factors of this trend include more screen time, physical inactivity, and social isolation, but their causal influence on mental health is insufficiently understood.

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  • Heiner Stuke
    Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research of the Robert Koch-Institute, Nordufer 20, Berlin, 13353, Germany, 49 30 18754 211.
  • Robert Schlack
    Department B Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany.
  • Michael Erhart
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Anne Kaman
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
    Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Christopher Irrgang
    Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research of the Robert Koch-Institute, Nordufer 20, Berlin, 13353, Germany, 49 30 18754 211.

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