TY - JOUR
T1 - Recognising the anxiogenic environment as a driver of youth anxiety
AU - Busby Grant, Janie
AU - Batterham, Philip J
AU - Calear, Alison L
AU - Grant, Will J
AU - Christensen, Helen
N1 - Funding Information:
JBG has received support from the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. PJB is supported by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Fellowship (1158707) and has received research funding from the NHMRC (Australia), Medical Research Future Fund (Australia), Suicide Prevention Australia, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia). ALC is supported by NHMRC Fellowship (1173146) and has received research funding from NHMRC (Australia), Medical Research Future Fund (Australia), Suicide Prevention Australia, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia). WJG has received funding from Food Standards Australia New Zealand and the Australian National University Discovery Translation Fund. HC is supported by NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship (1155614).
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Although anxiety is a common experience, the prevalence of extreme, persistent, and debilitating anxiety has grown among young people in the past two decades. 1 , 2 Severe anxiety is associated with substantial negative impact on everyday functioning and wellbeing and is closely linked with the development of other mental illnesses, such as depression. Anxiety can be driven by a range of societal, financial, and ecological factors (eg, poverty, unemployment or precarious employment, inequality, discrimination), environmental features (eg, housing quality, overcrowding, and pollution), and crises (eg, global pandemics, political turmoil, and conflict), 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 many of which disproportionally affect young people. 7 , 8
AB - Although anxiety is a common experience, the prevalence of extreme, persistent, and debilitating anxiety has grown among young people in the past two decades. 1 , 2 Severe anxiety is associated with substantial negative impact on everyday functioning and wellbeing and is closely linked with the development of other mental illnesses, such as depression. Anxiety can be driven by a range of societal, financial, and ecological factors (eg, poverty, unemployment or precarious employment, inequality, discrimination), environmental features (eg, housing quality, overcrowding, and pollution), and crises (eg, global pandemics, political turmoil, and conflict), 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 many of which disproportionally affect young people. 7 , 8
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U2 - 10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00023-8
DO - 10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00023-8
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 36780907
SN - 2352-4642
VL - 7
SP - 303
EP - 305
JO - The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
JF - The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
IS - 5
ER -
