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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · 3d

A new open access paper in collab with Carolina Guzman Holst, @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social, and MYRIAD team examining differential responses to a universal school based intervention. Massive respect to the MYRIAD team for allowing us to investigate if their intervention was potentially harming CYP.

Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 6d

New paper from my group, led by Carolina Guzman Holst

This is a secondary analysis of data from the high-quality MYRIAD trial, a universal school-based mindfulness intervention

Summary below (🧵)

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Adolescents' trajectories of mental health in the MYRIAD trial

Abstract
Background
This study explored adolescent's mental health trajectories over the course of a school-based mindfulness-based intervention trial (MYRIAD). It examined whether intervention condition (mindfulness vs. teaching-as-usual), individual-level and contextual-level factors were associated with different trajectories.

Methods
This pre-registered study used data from 11- to 14-year-olds who participated in the MYRIAD trial. We used growth mixture models to examine distinct trajectories in risk for depression, social-emotional-behavioural functioning, and wellbeing (co-primary outcomes), and anxiety (secondary outcome), across pre-intervention, post-intervention and 12-month follow up (ns = 7198–7727). We then used multinomial and binomial logistic regression models to examine factors associated with individual trajectory membership.

Results
Distinct trajectories emerged for each outcome: A five-trajectory model best explained the changes in risk for depression, whilst four-trajectory models best explained changes in social-emotional-behavioural functioning, wellbeing, and anxiety. While 69%–80% of adolescents followed stable low-problem trajectories for each outcome, 11%–23% experienced stable high-problem trajectories, 2%–16% experienced increasing-problem trajectories and 1%–5% experienced decreasing-problem trajectories. Receiving the mindfulness intervention was not associated with any mental health trajectory in models adjusted for confounders. Several individual-level factors, including executive functioning difficulties and risk of mental health problems at baseline, and school-level factors, such as school climate, predicted adolescents' classification into different trajectories, but they did not vary according to intervention group.

Conclusions
Individual differences in mental health trajectories emerged over the course of a 1-year mindfulness-based intervention, with most adolescents experiencing low-stable problem trajectories for each outcome. However, the intervention itself had no impact on individual trajectory membership, mirroring null results found in the main trial. Our findings suggest that universal interventions may not be sensitive enough to address the diverse needs of all students, however, tailoring interventions to address a range of different individual and contextual factors might maximise their impact.

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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · 8d

New paper on help-seeking among 1,001 neurodivergent adolescents who self-harm.

They do seek help-often more than peers-but find formal support less helpful.

With @oxwell.bsky.social Galit Geulayov, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & Rohan Borschmann

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library

Adolescents who self-harm are also more likely to seek support from informal than formal sources and least likely to seek support online. But neurodivergent adolescents who self-harm are more likely ....

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 14d

"My career path has been winding, but my motivation has never wavered."

💼 In our latest case study, Dr Simona Skripkauskaite reflects on variety - both in her career path as a #mentalhealth #researcher, and in her day-to-day.

Read more: 🔎
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/case-studies...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Aug 6

A pioneering research centre aimed at achieving better mental health outcomes for children, young people and families will be established at Oxford University thanks to a £27 million gift from The Paul Foundation.

Find out more ⬇️

£27 million gift funds new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research

A pioneering research centre aimed at achieving better mental health outcomes for children, young people and families will be established at the University of Oxford thanks to a £27 million gift from

www.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · May 30

🔑Barriers: funding gaps, ethics delays, data sharing, cultural differences

✅ Solutions: prep networks, inclusive data, open tools, real-time dissemination

Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · May 30

🚨 New from the #CoSPACE Consortium: How do we overcome international barriers in #Youth #MentalHealth research during crises? #COVID19

🌍 14sites | 10countries | 1 #GlobalResearch blueprint

📖 Read: rdcu.be/eoDpU

@ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social @topicgroup.bsky.social @jennymcmahon.bsky.social

Addressing international research challenges in child and adolescent mental health during global crises: experience and recommendations of the Co-SPACE international consortium

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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · Apr 4

Recent headlines suggest #screentime harms #sleep & #mentalHealth in #youngPeople, especially girls. Yet, our latest research shows that #socialMedia use or pre-sleep screen time barely links to adolescent mental health when risky online behaviors are considered: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology

Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...

link.springer.com

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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · Apr 1

I wrote a blog explaining why I believe administrative #Data is useful and how it can help us understand #MentalHealth support needs in #Neurodiversity better. Read it here: 🔗 www.adruk.org/news-publica... #supporttheyouth @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social

A roadmap to better support for neurodivergent children

ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Simona Skripkauskaite believes linked administrative data research could help build a more supportive and responsive system that me...

www.adruk.org

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Holly Bear @drhollybear.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology:
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.

Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology

Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...

link.springer.com

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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · Feb 13

Over the last year, #CoSpace has worked with young people in the UK and #Japan to co-create #international recommendations for #MentalHealthSupport

Here is what they said:

Supported by @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ukri.org JSPS LeadersUnlocked NCCHD FTCJ everybeing

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Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @oxchildpsych.bsky.social · Jan 6

Another new paper from the @oxwell.bsky.social team here at Child & Adolescent Psychiatry! 📘

Read (free) to learn about social jetlag in young people: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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OxWell Study @oxwell.bsky.social · Jan 6

Social jetlag = the mismatch between social & biological time ✈️😴

Our new @oxwell.bsky.social study of ~20K #children & #adolescents shows an average jetlag of ~2 hrs 🕑 .

⬆️ jetlag was associated w/ weekend bedtime setting 🛌, & #socialmedia use 📱 and #gaming 🎮 before #sleep

Read more below 👇

Social jetlag and sleep habits in children and adolescents: Associations with autonomy (bedtime setting and electronics curfew) and electronic media use before sleep

For young people attending school, social jetlag (SJL) refers to discrepancy in sleep/wake timing between school days and weekends. This study investigated SJL in school-aged children and adolescen...

www.tandfonline.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Dec 20

Many of the parents blaming social media for their teens’ mental health struggles are just deflecting blame from their own violence and abuse.

And that’s what the report finds. Adults’ violence is one of the major reasons teens struggle.

danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · Dec 20

New CDC data is out on youth mental health. Unsurprisingly, the biggest issues have nothing to do with social media. If only we could actually convince policymakers to invest in the actual problems that youth face. For a great topline look at the new data, see: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Why the latest CDC teen mental health report is a politically inconvenient bombshell for crusading California pols

The report reveals that teens’ use of social media is more complicated than the simplistic campaigns to restrict access recognize.

www.sfchronicle.com

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NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social · Nov 29

👏Colleagues from our BRC’s Mental Health in Development Theme have established the Wisdom network, bringing together primary and secondary schools in England with academic researchers to enable #mentalhealth research that benefits school communities.
Get involved: tinyurl.com/wisdomnetwork

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Lars Klintwall @larsklintwall.bsky.social · Nov 17

Published! ”Perceived causal symptom network of adolescent mental health issues”. n = 55 depressed teenagers (PHQ9 > 9) picked symptoms from a predefined list (including criteria for depression, purple nodes), specified these in their own words, and then rated causal relations.

Symptom network showing that some nodes are more central than others: stress, procrastination and overthinking

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · Nov 14

New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85

ifs.org.uk/publications...

The effects of youth clubs on education and crime | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.

ifs.org.uk

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