Research on Adolescents, Mental Health and Use of Mobile Technology

Here are some American articles, not brand new research, but quite interesting:

How Adolescents Use Technology for Health Information: Implications for Health
Professionals from Focus Group Studies (2003)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550577/

Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Teenagers Mental Health

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/36648.php

Young Minds may be able to help out if there are any specific questions to ask about the types
of mental health problems adolescents are generally faced with:

http://www.youngminds.org.uk/youngminds/ym-newsroom/media-resources

How adolescents use technology (2009), from their own points of view:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/5819246/Morgan-Stanley-publish-teens-paper-
on-Twitter-and-mobiles.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/581926
8/My-media-diet-a-teenagers-view.html

Interesting outcomes about the effect of ethnicity on mobile technology use:

Ethnic minorities have taken the lead in the use of digital communications an Ofcom
media literacy audit has revealed.
http://www.blackmentalhealth.org.uk/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=503&Itemid=117

Example of the possibility of using mobile phones to deliver health interventions:

Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation

http://www.library.nhs.uk/MENTALHEALTH/ViewResource.aspx?resID=327205&tabID=289

New guidance from DCSF on delivering mental health services to children and young people,
page 47/8 shows all the different services currently available:
http://publications.everychildmatters.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/01125-2009DOM-EN.pdf