Wonderful collaboration led by leading academics in mental health research in Peru, Colombia & Argentina, directed by Stefan Priebe & co at QMUL, funded via MRC.

Longitudinal results of two year follow-up to follow.

Good to know Aloe. Thanks.

In our @ukri.org @phiuk.bsky.social Population Mental Health consortium, we're hoping to change that by recruiting a Community Insights Panel to help us set the direction for community mental health research & practice in the UK.

Interested? Find out more here: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/populat...

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Finally, congratulations to my @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social PhD student Georgie Hudson who led this work for the team, and who expertly thought about salient confounders, missing data (MICE) and other issues to produce this work so professionally.

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Data taken from OLA study, collab led by @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social & impossible w/o relentless research activity by colleagues in Peru (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Colombia (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Hospital Uni. San Ignacio) & Argentina (University of Buenos Aires).

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That said, this work isn't causal, and was taken from baseline case-control data. We have followed cases for two further years, which should allow us to evaluate how coping affects mental health & recovery longitudinally.

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If causal, our work implies that interventions that provide young people with positive coping mechanisms in response to substantial social adversity may protect against common mental disorders.

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Interestingly, we found some consistent evidence (albeit only at a trend level) that the effect of stressful life events on risk of anxiety/depression was weaker for young people who employed positive coping strategies. Here, we are underpowered to be definitive, but it's a potential signal.

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We found that young people who met GAD/PHQ criteria for #anxiety / #depression were less likely than controls to use positive #coping strategies, and more likely to use negative coping strategies, such as avoidance.

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mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

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#EpiSky #epidemiology #mentalhealth #youthmentalhealth #cyp #resilience

Great idea. I'd started one but this is far more comprehensive.