Anxiety is a leading mental health concern and evidence increasingly links its development and maintenance to social media use. Anxiety symptoms are mainly caused by fear of judgment, compulsive scrolling, and distress after online interactions.

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Lived Experience Australia in collaboration with Flinders University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are seeking to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using real-time social media and sleep data to identify behavioural patterns associated with anxiety symptoms, to improve diagnosis and early detection of anxiety-related conditions.

 

We aim for the results of this survey to inform further research to test a scalable AI-based mental health solution to anxiety associated with social media use, including AI training, real-world testing, and clinical integration.

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The survey has three sections:

1. The first section asks you some questions about yourself.

2. The second section asks you about your social media and technology use.

3. The third section asks your views on how acceptable and feasible trialling a range of actions might be to better understand and respond to social media and anxiety.

 

This project is being undertaken by Professor Sharon Lawn, in her Flinders University role. Sharon is also Executive Director of Lived Experience Australia and has been working with a Lived Experience Co-design Group to develop the survey for this project.

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Results of this project will be available in a downloadable summary on the research page of Lived Experience Australia website from February 2026.

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If you are 18 years of age or older, have access to a smartphone for social media and have lived or living experience of anxiety associated with social media use and would like to share your perspectives, please complete the survey via the link below.

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This project has been approved by the Flinders University Human Research Ethics Committee (No.8983).