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Emma Soneson
@emmasoneson.bsky.social
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Senior Postdoc @ Oxford Psychiatry & Fulford Junior Research Fellow @ Somerville College. Researching children & young people's mental health, with a focus on the intersections of mental health & education 🌻

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Very fortunate to have shared two years at @somervillecollege.bsky.social with the wonderful Jan Royall & adore her new (hot pink!) portrait from Tania Rivilis, revealed last week 🎀🌸💓
Jan Royall (Principal, Somerville College) and Emma Soneson in front of Jan's new portrait by Tania Rivilis. Portrait portrays Jan in Pink jacket against pink background.
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🗝️ MISSING DATA was more common amongst those who reported that their concerns affected their accuracy (aORs wrt those not reporting impacted accuracy = 1.53 - 3.38).

🗝️ Substantial VARIATIONS in SCORE distributions on measures of mental illness & adversity according to presence/absence of concerns.
Graph shows a 5x3 panel of plots where rows represent the 5 concerns and columns represent the three measures of mental illness and adversity (L-R Short Child Maltreatment Questionnaire, RCADS-11, DAWBA eating disorder screening questions). The general trend shown is that those without concerns have score distributions quite separate (better mental health; less adversity) from those reporting concerns (regardless of whether they said the concern impacted their accuracy). This is particularly striking for the RCADS-11.
May 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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🗝️ 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'.
Graph (Fig 1 here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X25001107) shows proportion of students endorsing five different research related concerns, including concerns about parents, someone at home, and peers seeing their answers; a concern that the survey was not actually confidential; and a concern about how data would be used. Graph also shows whether students reported that their concern impacted the accuracy of their answers. Most common concern is about adults at school seeing answers (31.1%), followed by belief that survey was not actually confidential (21.4%). Approx. 30% of individuals with each concern between 21.9 & 28.7% reported that the concern impacted the accuracy of their answers.
May 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Went to my first May Morning at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social yesterday! It was a truly magical thing & I'm so grateful to Hinako for the invite 🌸🌷🌻🪻
Photo of Emma, Hinako, and Mina standing in front of the wisteria at Magdalen college. Photo shows a crowd on their feet looking up to the Magdalen tower for the choir.
May 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Key findings (cont.):

🗝️ GROUPS OF CONCERN

5 | #Gender diverse & gender non-disclosing adolescents accessed many types of support but found them generally less helpful than did their peers.

6 | Adolescents who didn't find their parent/carer helpful found very little else helpful either.
[Figure 4 from paper] Shows 4 network diagrams that show patterns of access and perceived helpfulness by gender (all, girl, boy, gender diverse/gender non-disclosing). [Figure 6 from paper] 6 network diagrams comparing 3 focal support types (parents/carers, school MH teams, and CAMHS), with lefthand networks representing those who found the focal type helpful and righthand showing those who did not find it helpful.
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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Key findings (cont.):

🗝️ HELPFULNESS

3 | Friends & family were perceived as *most* helpful (incl. for adolescents w/ #mentalhealth difficulties).

4 | #CAMHS and helpline/online support were perceived as *least* helpful (ESP. for adolescents with #mentalhealth difficulties).
[Figure 3 from the publication]: shows 2 network diagrams showing patterns of access and perceived helpfulness for those with sub-clinical and clinical RCADS scores (a measure of depression and anxiety)
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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Key findings:

🗝️ PATTERNS OF ACCESS

1 | Many adolescents report having accessed #mentalhealth support in the last year (27% of our @oxwell.bsky.social sample) & around half of these have accessed 2+ types.

2 | Friends & family were most common, followed by schools & then health & social care.
[Figure 2 from the publication]: shows a network diagram of 18 different types of mental health support young people report accessing in the last year, alongside perceived helpfulness.
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻

In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it.

w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
[Figure 2 from the publication]: shows a network diagram of 18 different types of mental health support young people report accessing in the last year, alongside perceived helpfulness.
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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We end with 10 co-produced recommendations:
Box with the following title: 10 coproduced recommendations for critically appraising, processing, analysing and reporting gender diversity in adolescent health research Text exceeds the limits of alt text, but they are written in plain text on in Box 1 here: https://mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e301150?rss=1
November 14, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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🗝️ Our conclusions: higher access = promising, but higher perceived unmet need = a major concern, possibly suggesting additional or amplified barriers for this group. Need to ensure support is accessible & acceptable for *all* YP.
Screenshot of conclusions Although it is encouraging that adolescents with experience of adversity are more likely than their peers with similar levels of depression and anxiety symptoms to have accessed mental health support, there remains a concern that those who have not accessed support are more likely to perceive an as-yet unmet need for it. Mental health support must be available, accessible and acceptable to all who need it, especially for those groups that traditionally have not accessed services, including the more marginalised and vulnerable populations.
January 24, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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🗝️ Clear pattern as # of self-reported adverse childhood experiences #ACEs increased, so did the proportion of YP reporting (1) prior access to mental health support and (2) perceived unmet need for support. Patterns held for models adjusted for dep/anx (w/ sig. interaction).
Figure illustrating patterns of prior access to mental health support according to number of adverse childhood experiences. Clear pattern shown: as # ACEs increase, so does proportion of YP reporting prior access. Figure illustrating patterns of perceived unmet need for mental health services according to number of adverse childhood experiences. Clear pattern shown: as # ACEs increase, so does proportion of YP reporting perceived unmet need.
January 24, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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Out today in Epidemiology & Psychiatric Sciences!

We used data from the OxWell Student Survey to explore #mentalhealth help-seeking among young people w/ experience of #adversity. 🗝️ messages below...

(with M Fazel, SR White, E Howarth, T Ford & PB Jones)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Screenshot of paper linked in tweet showing title and authors. Title is 'Access to and perceived unmet need for mental health services and support in a community sample of UK adolescents with and without experience of childhood adversity' Authors are E. Soneson, S.R. White, E. Howarth, T. Ford, M. Fazel, P.B. Jones
January 24, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Great to see our paper on the social determinants of mental (ill) health out in the latest issue of World Psychiatry.

Tackling the #SDoH is essential for improving #mentalhealth & social justice must be central to this approach.

Read free here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Figure 2 from World Psychiatry paper referenced in the original post. Highlights major social determinants across lifespan (pre-natal to early life to childhood to adolescence/adulthood) as well as primary prevention strategies (universal, selected, indicated).
January 17, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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New paper w/ Mina Fazel out in JCPP Special Issue ➡️ acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Really appreciated this opportunity to (try to!!) summarise the vast amount of research happening in child & adolescent public mental health & share some of our ideas on how to move the field forward.
Diagram showing three overlapping domains influencing child & adolescent mental health: interpersonal, institutions, and community. Each domain has icons to show examples (e.g friends and family for interpersonal, build and natural environment for community, health and social care for institutional) with schools at the centre of the intersection. The domains are surrounded by a circle outlining different levels of promotion and prevention, as well as the developmental life cycle.
December 18, 2023 at 10:57 AM