Title: Cureus | Social Media Use and Its Connection to Mental Health: A Systematic Review
Headings: Social Media Use and Its Connection to Mental Health: A Systematic Review
Social Media Use and Its Connection to Mental Health: A Systematic Review
Abstract
Introduction & Background
Social media
Impact on mental health
The need for a systematic review
Review
Research strategy
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Result
Discussion
Limitation and suggestion
Conclusions
References

Content: Because social media is a relatively new phenomenon, the potential links between their use and mental health have not been widely investigated. This paper attempt to systematically review all the relevant literature with the aim of filling the gap by examining social media impact on mental health, which is sedentary behavior, which, if in excess, raises the risk of health problems [7,9,12]. This study is important because it provides information on the extent of the focus of peer review literature, which can assist the researchers in delivering a prospect with the aim of understanding the future attention related to climate change strategies that require scholarly attention. This study is very useful because it provides information on the extent to which peer review literature can assist researchers in presenting prospects with a view to understanding future concerns related to mental health strategies that require scientific attention. The development of the current systematic review is based on the main research question: how does social media affect mental health? Review
Research strategy
The research was conducted to identify studies analyzing the role of social media on mental health. Google Scholar was used as our main database to find the relevant articles. Keywords that were used for the search were: ( 1) “social media”, (2) “mental health”, (3) “social media” AND “mental health”, (4) “social networking” AND “mental health”, and (5) “social networking” OR “social media” AND “mental health” (Table 1 ).