thanks for sharing, Lucy!!

Thanks to my coauthors @pollywaite.bsky.social , Felicity Waite, Ray Percy, Laura Turpin, Kate Robinson, and Jennifer McMahon 🌟 @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social

🔜My ongoing PhD studies aim to improve screening for adolescent PD, measurement of panic-related cognitions in this group, and understanding of how a broader range of factors interact with symptoms (peer factors, perfectionism, dissociative experiences…) (7/7)

‼️We highlight the need for better tools for measuring adolescent PD cognitions and behaviours, and further research into the cognitions, behaviours, and social factors involved in the maintenance of panic in this age group. (6/?)

💡We suggest that catastrophic cognitions and safety behaviours may be specific treatment targets for adolescent PD, and that body sensation fear may be a treatment target for adolescent anxiety disorders more broadly. (5/?)

📈Our PD group reported significantly higher catastrophic cognitions and safety behaviours than both control groups, and significantly higher body sensation fear than the community, but not the clinical, control group. All processes predicted concurrent PD symptom severity across the sample. (4/?)

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽We recruited n=101 13-15-year-olds with either PD, another anxiety disorder excluding panic (‘clinical control’), or no anxiety disorder (‘community control’). They completed self-report measures of panic symptoms, thoughts, and behaviours. (3/?)

⁉️This was the first study to investigate the presence and specificity of certain cognitions and behaviours in adolescent PD over and above other adolescent anxiety disorders. In particular, we were interested in catastrophic cognitions, body sensation fear, and certain safety behaviours. (2/?)

Thanks for sharing, Maria!

I've said this often: the discourse around smartphones/social media for young people is 99% dictated by 'concerned parents' agreeing with other 'concerned parents' about how their 'concerns' are valid, and thus something must be done!

That's not how anything should work, but hey ho, I guess
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Thanks Lucy 😊

Thanks Polly!

Would love to be added to this too, thanks for creating it!