Research

Background Generative artificial intelligence (AI) use has been suggested to have adverse mental health consequences but a causal relationship has not been examined.

Objective To simulate a randomised controlled trial of AI use in a work, school or...

Americans’ trust in scientists has been stable and high, relative to other political and social institutions, for the last half century (Krause, Brossard, and Scheufele 2019). Yet, underlying this stability lies a dramatic change such that a partisan gap...

Large and persistent sociodemographic disparities in rates of mental health treatment in the United States have been reported, but whether these differences reflect institutional mistrust or limited social support remains unclear. This study described...

Background Antidepressants are among the most prescribed medications in the USA, yet challenges in access to mental health treatment persist.

Objective To assess current and lifetime antidepressant and psychotherapy use among American adults, and examine...

IMPORTANCE Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly entered mainstream use in the US, but its association with mental health has not been characterized.

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations of the extent and type of generative AI use among US...

Large and persistent sociodemographic disparities in rates of mental health treatment in the United States have been reported, but whether these differences reflect institutional mistrust or limited social support remains unclear. This study described...

The transmission of communicable diseases in human populations is known to be modulated by behavioral patterns. However, detailed characterizations of how population-level behaviors change over time during multiple disease outbreaks and spatial...

Importance  Screening measures of depressive symptoms (eg, 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9]) are increasingly used in surveys and remote applications, where shorter versions would be valuable.

Objective  To derive shorter versions of the PHQ-9...

Is there a relationship between depression and political evaluations? Building on existing work, we argue that experiencing depressive symptoms will positively correlate with supporting a populist politician and negatively correlate with supporting a...

Using an experimental design that mimics the YouTube interface, we demonstrate that presenting people with more partisan video recommendations has no detectable polarizing effects on users’ attitudes in the short term. We conduct four experiments on two...

Abstract

Importance  Efforts to understand the complex association between social media use and mental health have focused on depression, with little investigation of other forms of negative affect, such as irritability and anxiety.

Objective  To...