A5011323102- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
Queen's University Belfast
2019-2025
Queens University
2020-2025
University of Lincoln
2025
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
2024
University of London
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2024
Arden University
2024
Coventry (United Kingdom)
2024
South African Medical Research Council
2024
Stellenbosch University
2024
Loneliness is a significant public health issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in lockdown measures limiting social contact. UK are worried about the impact of these on mental outcomes. Understanding prevalence and predictors loneliness at this time priority issue for research.The study employed cross-sectional online survey design. Baseline data collected between March 23rd April 24th 2020 from adults Psychological Wellbeing Study were analysed (N = 1964, 18-87 years, M 37.11, SD...
The impact of COVID-19 on physical and mental health employment after hospitalisation with acute disease is not well understood. aim this study was to determine the effects COVID-19-related employment, identify factors associated recovery, describe recovery phenotypes. Post-hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID) a multicentre, long-term follow-up adults (aged ≥18 years) discharged from hospital in UK clinical diagnosis COVID-19, involving an assessment between 2 7 months discharge, including detailed...
The growing literature conceptualizing mental disorders like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as networks of interacting symptoms faces three key challenges. Prior studies predominantly used (a) small samples with low power for precise estimation, (b) nonclinical samples, and (c) single samples. This renders network structures in clinical data, the extent to which replicate across data sets, unknown. To overcome these limitations, present cross-cultural multisite study estimated...
No effective pharmacological or non-pharmacological interventions exist for patients with long COVID. We aimed to describe recovery 1 year after hospital discharge COVID-19, identify factors associated patient-perceived recovery, and potential therapeutic targets by describing the underlying inflammatory profiles of previously described clusters at 5 months discharge.
One in ten severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections result prolonged symptoms termed long disease (COVID), yet phenotypes and mechanisms are poorly understood
Traumatic events pose great challenges on mental health services in scarcity of specialist trauma clinicians and services. Simple short screening instruments for detecting adverse psychological responses are needed. Several brief have been developed. However, some limited, especially relation to reflecting the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis. Recently, several studies challenged pre-existing ideas about PTSD's latent structure. Factor analytic research currently supports two...
Article Abstract Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and factor structure PTSD symptomatology in a nationally representative sample US veterans examine how symptom clusters are related to depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, hostility, physical mental health-related functioning, quality life. Method: Data were analyzed from National Health Resilience Veterans Study, survey 1,484 conducted September through October 2013. Confirmatory analyses...
Mental health and behavioural problems are common among students commencing university. University life can be stressful often exacerbate during their course of study, while others develop disorders for the first time. The WHO World Health Surveys International College Student Project aims to conduct longitudinal research examine monitor student mental wellbeing. Ulster Wellbeing which commenced in September 2015 Northern Ireland (NI), was conducted as part this initiative (wave 1, n = 739),...
The primary aim was to examine the depressive symptom structure of Mainland China adolescents using Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D).Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) were simultaneously conducted determine CES-D in a large scale, representative adolescent samples recruited from China. Multigroup CFA (N = 5059, 48% boys, mean 16.55±1.06) utilized test factorial invariance structure, which generated by EFA confirmed across gender.The can be...
The aim of this paper is to outline the design a chatbot be used within mental health counselling. One main causes burden disease worldwide problems. Mental contributes 28% total disease, compared 16% each for cancer and heart in UK. Stress, anxiety or depression accounted 15.8 million days sickness absence across UK 2016. By 2020, gap between demand care resources National Health Service (NHS) can provide likely widen, therefore providers are increasingly needing find more cost-effective...
Objectives: Loneliness is a significant public health issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in lockdown measures limiting social contact. UK are worried about the impact of these on mental outcomes. Understanding prevalence and predictors loneliness at this time priority issue for research. Design: study employed cross-sectional online survey design. Method: Baseline data collected between March 23rd April 24th 2020 from adults Psychological Wellbeing Study were analysed (N = 1963, 18-87...
In the 5th edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM-5), symptom profile posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was expanded to include 20 symptoms. An alternative model PTSD is outlined in proposed 11th International Classification Diseases (ICD-11) that includes just six symptoms.The objectives current study are: 1) independently investigate fit ICD-11 PTSD, three DSM-5-based models across seven different trauma samples (N=3,746) using confirmatory factor analysis;...