Potential of social media in promoting mental health in adolescents.
The growing prevalence of adolescent mental disorders poses significant challenges for education and healthcare systems globally. Providers are therefore keen to identify effective ways of promoting positive mental health. This aim of this qualitative study was to explore perceptions that social med...
| Publicado en: | Health Promotion International Vol. 34; no. 5; pp. 981 - 992 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2019
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