Technology is ubiquitous in the day to day lives of young people in Canada but little is known about the ways in which digital media affects their mental health, especially for Indigenous youth.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• How Do Urban Environments Affect Young People’s Mental Health? A Novel Conceptual Framework to Bridge Public Health, Planning, and Neurourbanism (2021) · doi

  However, no conceptual frameworks to date have detailed the effect of urban environments on young people's mental health, and few studies have considered the growing role of digital and social media in this relationship, leading to calls for the development of holistic approaches to describe this relationship.

  Keywords: relationship conceptual frameworks date detailed effect urban environments young people mental health considered growing role
• <i>Keyboard warriors</i>? Visualising technology and well-being<i>with, for</i>and<i>by</i>indigenous youth through digital stories (2019) · doi

  Technology is ubiquitous in the day to day lives of young people in Canada but little is known about the ways in which digital media affects their mental health, especially for Indigenous youth.

  Keywords: technology ubiquitous lives young people canada little known ways digital media affects mental health especially
• Social Media Effects and Self-harm Behaviors Among Young People (2021) · doi

  Further research on social media affordances and their effects on the cognitive and social-emotional development of young people will provide a better analytical framework not only for the assessment of self-harm but also for using social media to mitigate negative behaviors.

  Keywords: social media further affordances effects cognitive emotional development young people provide better analytical framework assessment