Written by: Garrett Waterman After the Using Media to Understand Mechanisms of Behavior Change project ended in 2010, SMAHRT started to investigate and design intervention studies to understand social media and substance use among college students. This led to two new projects: Social Media and Health Information (SMAHI) study and Technology and Young Adult Health […]
Written by: Meisi Li According to the latest World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the annual prevalence of cannabis use in the population aged 15-16 is 5.8%, compared to 4.1% in the general population. The report also highlights the trend of cannabis legalization in North America and its potential influence […]
Written by: Garrett Waterman In a concerted effort to improve our understanding of the associations between youth, technology, social media, and mental wellbeing, researchers have been focused on collecting data through surveys, interviews, and questionnaires. This approach has allowed researchers to cultivate large subsets of data that simply did not exist twenty years ago. While […]