Written by: Abby Hommer This past year I had the opportunity to conduct a secondary analysis, using data from a previous Qualtrics survey conducted by the SMAHRT team. As I was looking over the different scales and measurements used, I came across the FOMO scale. My interest was piqued, as I was reminded of the […]
By: Natasha Matta, TAM YAB Member Suicide is a leading public health issue. It is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, the second leading cause of death for people aged 10-34, and there is approximately 1 death by suicide every 11 minutes. With media increasingly becoming people’s primary source of news, […]
By: Grainne McDonagh, Lekha Pillarisetti, Sydney Trinrud, and Zoe Stratman As teens working alongside social media researchers, we saw many flaws in how Facebook withheld important data regarding adolescent health and how journalists shared the story. We read the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times articles and listened to the Journal podcast […]