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Research papers related to Wellbeing And Media

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Wellbeing, Reflected Through Media

This week’s papers treat media less as a single force and more as a setting: a place for support, education, risk, and patient voice. The through-line is context—who is using the medium, for what need, and with what risks or supports.

Media-based approaches are being explored for reading-based mental wellbeing support, elementary school health lessons, and child-safety education, ranging from AI-supported online systems to digital classroom media and mini posters.
Social platforms can connect with health information and patient or caregiver expression, while also intersecting with addiction risk, body appreciation, eating-disorder measures, and depressive symptoms.
The most useful media research here starts with specific people: adolescents, college students, chronic-pain patients, parents, and schoolchildren.

Media as a support tool

Connected Collaborations: Remediating Immersive Reading for Mental Wellbeing through AI

It asks whether a group storytelling and bibliotherapy programme for mental wellbeing can be adapted for individual online use with AI-supported hypertext systems.

Pembelajaran Tematik Berbasis Media Digital untuk Penguatan Perilaku Hidup Sehat, Etika Berbicara, dan Pencegahan Bullying pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar

It reports a digital-media-based elementary school programme that improved students’ understanding of healthy living, speaking etiquette, and bullying prevention.

Implementasi Media Poster Mini sebagai Sarana Edukasi Pencegahan Pelecehan Seksual pada Anak di SDN 243 Palembang

It describes mini posters as a simple educational medium for teaching children about preventing sexual abuse; the abstract frames the broader risk context as including both direct interactions and digital media.

When social media meets symptoms

Navigating the Digital Mirror: The Indirect Role of Body Appreciation in Social Media Addiction and Eating Disorders in Turkiye.

It examines how body appreciation may help explain the relationship between social media addiction and eating-disorder measures among college students in Turkiye.

Gender Differences in the Co-Occurrence Networks of Problematic Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis.

It studies how problematic social media use and depressive symptoms interact over time in Chinese adolescents, with attention to gender differences.

Patient voices online

The effect of digital literacy on health service utilization through social media engagement: evidence from Malawi, Southern Africa

It links digital literacy, social media engagement, and health service use among people in Malawi seeking health-related information online.

Social Media Use Among People Living with Chronic Pain: Cross-Sectional Study of Associated Factors

It documents social media use among people living with chronic pain, a group often reached through online recruitment and knowledge-sharing.

Patient and parent voices in tetralogy of Fallot: A French social media analysis.

It analyzes French-language social media and forum posts to surface the concerns, emotions, and information needs of patients and parents dealing with tetralogy of Fallot.

Summary written from this week's papers and fact-checked against their abstracts.