OxWell Study
@oxwell.bsky.social
Sharing findings from the OxWell Student Survey, a self-report study on mental health and well-being conducted in 180 schools across England.
Learn more @ https://oxwell.org/
Learn more @ https://oxwell.org/
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.
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 💬💛
Over 40,000 students have taken part in the 2025 survey so far — THANK YOU to every student who shared their voice 💬💛
June 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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.
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
#research
May 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
#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
Full text here: www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
#mentalhealth #research
May 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
*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
Full text here: www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
#mentalhealth #research
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 ⬇️
Watch/listen/read to see what @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social made of the report ⬇️
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👇
Links below👇
April 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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 ⬇️
Watch/listen/read to see what @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social made of the report ⬇️
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.
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.
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.
🔗 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
March 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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.
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.
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.
Lea undertook an 8-wk internship with @oxchildpsych.bsky.social last summer & did some really impactful work around adolescent self-harm.
March 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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.
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 👇
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
January 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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 👇
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 👇
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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...
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.
www.ox.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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...
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 @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...
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.
www.psych.ox.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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...
PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical...
ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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!
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!
December 13, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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!
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!
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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!
Our team is excited to help shape this major study & ensure it keeps #mentalhealth at its heart!
November 29, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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!
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...
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...
November 22, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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...
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...