Role of Social Media on Mental Well-being of Youth during Covid-19
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Covid-19, Lockdown, Stress, Social media, Mental healthAbstract
With COVID-19 spreading quickly, the world is moving into a new phase. People will be researching different COVID-19 pandemic effects, and mental and behavioral health should be the primary concern of such research. There is an abundance of research on the connection between emergencies like SARS or natural disasters and problems with loneliness, acute stress, anxiety, and depression. The COVID-19 pandemic's social isolation features may have particularly substantial effects on mental health, future prevention and treatment plans will be influenced by an understanding of how mental health changes as a result of this serious worldwide pandemic.
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