Ahead of our national webinar this afternoon, OxWell PI Mina Fazel summarises some of the key areas we're looking into & how we're amplifying young voices to lead to real-world change.

Mina Fazel@minafazeloxford.bsky.social · last yr.

After a quiet spell here (because it’s been very busy!) — a big #OxWell update 📣🧠 Over 40,000 students have taken part in the 2025 survey so far — THANK YOU to every student who shared their voice 💬💛

Scenes from our booth today at the Westgate! Great to meet so many #OxWellStudents, families, and teachers; share some early 2025 results & hear what they think we should be doing with the findings. #research

*New research* from team members @emmasoneson.bsky.social, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, Puneetha Goli & @simonrwhite.bsky.social on adolescents' concerns about taking part in health & well-being research. Full text here: www.jahonline.org/article/S105... #mentalhealth #research

Are Adolescents Sensitive About Sensitive Data? Exploring Student Concerns About Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Use in Health Research

We quantitively explored adolescents' concerns about privacy, confidentiality, and data use in health research and their potential impact on the accuracy of self-report data.

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Emma Soneson@emmasoneson.bsky.social · last yr.

🗝️ 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'.

We were really pleased that this report engaged so thoughtfully with our findings, making sure #youthvoice really is central in everything we do in children & young people's #mentalhealth. Watch/listen/read to see what @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social made of the report ⬇️

Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry@oxchildpsych.bsky.social · last yr.

It's been a busy 48 hours for our senior postdocs @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social, who were invited by BBC South Today & Radio Oxford to talk about the latest Oxfordshire Director of Public Health Annual Report on Children & Young People's #mentalhealth. Links below👇

What teens see and do online matters. New research from our team looks at how digital experiences relate to mental health & what we can do about it. A must-read for parents, educators, and mental health researchers and policymakers.

Holly Bear @drhollybear.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Great to see Lea Satala presenting her OxWell findings at the @nihr.bsky.social Undergraduate Internship Programme Celebration Event in London this morning! Lea undertook an 8-wk internship with @oxchildpsych.bsky.social last summer & did some really impactful work around adolescent self-harm.

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...

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Young people have given insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a new study. The findings used data from nearly 24,000 people aged between 11-18 who participated in @oxwell.bsky.social survey⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-12...

New study calls for radical rethink of mental health support for

Young people have given important insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a major new study of thousands of adolescents.

ox.ac.uk

New @oxwell.bsky.social study out today puts the #youthvoice centre stage in understanding the availability, accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support in the UK. PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical... ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study

Young people have given important insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a major new study of thousands of adolescents.

psych.ox.ac.uk

Today marks @oxwell.bsky.social Programme Manager Shona's last day for a little while... 🐣 Our study wouldn't be the same without her, and we are so grateful for everything she's done over the past few years 🫶 Best of luck in this new adventure, Shona!

Today @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social journeyed to London to join colleagues from around the country for a meeting of the Adolescent Health Study. Our team is excited to help shape this major study & ensure it keeps #mentalhealth at its heart!

In our first Bluesky 🦋 post, we want to share our Perspective paper just out in @bmj.com BMJ Mental Health on how to inclusively & accurately measure gender in adolescent health research, with lessons we've learnt over the past few years of OxWell 👇 mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...

Emma Soneson@emmasoneson.bsky.social · 2y ago

*NEW PUB: Making the most of imperfect gender data* Adolescent research must reflect today’s evolving gender landscape, especially for trans & gender diverse (TGD) young people. Our new Perspective outlines how to work with existing, imperfect data 🧵 mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...