Social anxiety tied to later risk for suicidal ideation, depression

Baseline social anxiety symptoms are associated with two-year suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms, according to a study published online June 10 in JCPP Advances. Kenny Chiu, Ph.D., from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, and colleagues investigated the temporal associations between baseline social anxiety and later suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in 2,397 youth (aged 14 to 24 years). The researchers found that baseline social anxiety symptoms were associated with two-year suicidal ideation (? = 0.07) and two-year depressive symptoms (? = 0.08), after controlling for baseline Read More

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