Adolescent Social Anxiety and relationship with Suicidal Ideation and Depression

In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Kenny Chiu discusses his JCPP Advances paper ‘Social anxiety symptoms and their relationship with suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in adolescents: A prospective study’. Kenny is the lead author of the paper. There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

• 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.