emmasoneson.bsky.social
Senior Postdoc @ Oxford Psychiatry & Fulford Junior Research Fellow @ Somerville College. Researching children & young people's mental health, with a focus on the intersections of mental health & education 🌻
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Thanks for your kind words Ola ☺️
Hadn't thought about the specific tie to girls being 'more willing' to report sx but that's a really interesting link.
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With thanks to @simonrwhite.bsky.social & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social for another fun collab & to our fantastic summer intern Puneetha Goli for her important contributions!
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Key takeaway?
Research-related concerns are common amongst adolescents & have implications for data accuracy and completeness.
Deliberate design & analysis that incorporates this complexity are needed to ensure we are accurately capturing the voices of all young people.
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🗝️ MISSING DATA was more common amongst those who reported that their concerns affected their accuracy (aORs wrt those not reporting impacted accuracy = 1.53 - 3.38).
🗝️ Substantial VARIATIONS in SCORE distributions on measures of mental illness & adversity according to presence/absence of concerns.
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🗝️ Concerns were MORE PREVALENT amongst gender diverse students (aOR wrt boys = 5.7), gender non-disclosing students (aOR = 4.4) & girls (aOR = 2.5) BUT gender diverse adolescents less likely to report that their concerns prevented them from answering accurately.
🗝️ Less variation by age/ethnicity.
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🗝️ 46.0% (8,160/17,729) of students endorsed ≥1 concern related to privacy, confidentiality, and data use & 28.8% (5,300/17,729) ≥2.
🗝️ 29.2% (2,379/8,160) of those with concerns reported that their concern(s) prevented them from answering '100% accurately'.
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👏
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Great to see these findings published!
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Implications for designing systems that meet young people's needs & expectations incl.
👨👨👦 'supporting the supporters' = informal networks YP turn to most
💷 thinking carefully about how we allocate limited resources
🏳️⚧️ designing support for & with groups not optimally served by current systems
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👋 @simonrwhite.bsky.social
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Feeling hopeful that these findings can help bring the #youthvoice to the fore in service design, implementation & evaluation & looking forward to learning with stakeholders about next steps for improving the accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support for our young people 🌻
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We've had the privilege over the past year of discussing these networks with services, third sector orgs, schools, policymakers & others and have worked together to understand how to take action based on these findings.
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Key findings (cont.):
🗝️ GROUPS OF CONCERN
5 | #Gender diverse & gender non-disclosing adolescents accessed many types of support but found them generally less helpful than did their peers.
6 | Adolescents who didn't find their parent/carer helpful found very little else helpful either.
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Key findings (cont.):
🗝️ HELPFULNESS
3 | Friends & family were perceived as *most* helpful (incl. for adolescents w/ #mentalhealth difficulties).
4 | #CAMHS and helpline/online support were perceived as *least* helpful (ESP. for adolescents with #mentalhealth difficulties).
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Key findings:
🗝️ PATTERNS OF ACCESS
1 | Many adolescents report having accessed #mentalhealth support in the last year (27% of our @oxwell.bsky.social sample) & around half of these have accessed 2+ types.
2 | Friends & family were most common, followed by schools & then health & social care.
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Done! :)
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Have just added you! 😊
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Hi Nora - can you add @oxchildpsych.bsky.social and @oxwell.bsky.social ? (if you're OK with having groups in addition to individuals!)
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Hi Ola - can you add @oxchildpsych.bsky.social and @oxwell.bsky.social ? (if you're OK with having groups in addition to individuals!)
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You got it! Thanks Anna!