{
  "id": 18856,
  "url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e90014",
  "title": "Internet Addiction, Mental Health Help-Seeking, and Mental Health Problems Among Chinese Adolescents: Repeated Cross-Sectional Study",
  "summary": "Background: Internet addiction (IA) has been consistently associated with adverse mental health outcomes, but less is known about whether adolescents with IA seek mental health support, and whether associations between help-seeking and mental health problems differ across pathways. Objective: This study aimed to describe mental health help-seeking patterns across internet use and IA status, and examine the independent and interactive associations of IA and help-seeking with mental health problem",
  "authors": "Afei Qin, Meiqi Wang, Lianlong Yu, Suyun Li, Zhaolu Liu, Shoujuan Zheng, Ziming Shao, Cuixia Lv, Long Sun",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T23:15:13.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "x-jmir-journal-of-medical-internet-researc",
  "source_name": "JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.jmir.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18856",
  "original_url": "https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e90014",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}