Adolescent Social Anxiety and relationship with Suicidal Ideation and Depression

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.33209
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Kenny Chiudiscusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘Social anxiety symptoms and their relationship with suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in adolescents: A prospective study’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12249). Kenny is the lead author of the paper.
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• Insight into the dataset used, which originated from the Wellcome Trust NSPN (Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network) study.
• The questionnaire measures used for social anxiety symptoms, generalised anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation.
• How the researchers dealt with missing data – a common feature of longitudinal cohort studies due to various reasons – and how they tried to account for this to test their hypothesis.
• The researcher’s experience of pre-registering the analysis on the Open Science Framework.
• Insight into the analytic models used to analyse the data.
• Implications of the findings for clinicians and other researchers.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.
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