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Daily mental health symptoms in high risk depression groups a feasibility EMA study

Safe People

Organisation name

Public Health Scotland

Organisation sector

Government Agency (Health and Adult Social Care)

Applicant name(s)

Alex KwongDr Jon HeronProfessor Marcus MunafoProfessor Nicholas TimpsonDr Kate NorthstoneProfessor Rebecca Pearson

Safe Projects

Project ID

B3890

Lay summary

Mental health disorders like depression and anxiety are common and have consequences on all aspects of health. Mental health disorders like depression have a complex aetiology comprised of genetic and environmental risk factors, but importantly these risk factors predict different longitudinal profiles of depression (i.e., those with persistent depressive symptoms across adolescence compared to those who experience early adult onset depressive symptoms compared to those who experience low symptoms; Kwong et al., 2019 - JAMA Network Open). We have also shown that these depression profiles are associated with poorer downstream consequences like lower educational attainment and NEET status (Lopez-Lopez et al., 2019).

Public benefit statement

Identify temporal variation in MH

Latest approval date

11/10/2021