Cherie Armour

Bio: Cherie Armour is an academic researcher from Queen's University Belfast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Anxiety. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 205 publications receiving 6354 citations. Previous affiliations of Cherie Armour include Yale University & Ulster University.

Loneliness in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional results from the COVID-19 Psychological Wellbeing Study

Abstract: Objectives Loneliness is a significant public health issue. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in lockdown measures limiting social contact. The UK public are worried about the impact of these measures on mental health outcomes. Understanding the prevalence and predictors of loneliness at this time is a priority issue for research. Method The study employed a cross-sectional online survey design. Baseline data collected between March 23rd and April 24th 2020 from UK adults in the COVID-19 Psychological Wellbeing Study were analysed (N = 1964, 18-87 years, M = 37.11, SD = 12.86, 70% female). Logistic regression analysis examined the influence of sociodemographic, social, health and COVID-19 specific factors on loneliness. Results The prevalence of loneliness was 27% (530/1964). Risk factors for loneliness were younger age group (OR: 4.67-5.31), being separated or divorced (OR: 2.29), scores meeting clinical criteria for depression (OR: 1.74), greater emotion regulation difficulties (OR: 1.04), and poor quality sleep due to the COVID-19 crisis (OR: 1.30). Higher levels of social support (OR: 0.92), being married/co-habiting (OR: 0.35) and living with a greater number of adults (OR: 0.87) were protective factors. Conclusions Rates of loneliness during the initial phase of lockdown were high. Risk factors were not specific to the COVID-19 crisis. Findings suggest that supportive interventions to reduce loneliness should prioritise younger people and those with mental health symptoms. Improving emotion regulation and sleep quality, and increasing social support may be optimal initial targets to reduce the impact of COVID-19 regulations on mental health outcomes.

Adult experience of mental health outcomes as a result of intimate partner violence victimisation: a systematic review

Abstract: Background : Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been known to adversely affect the mental health of victims Research has tended to focus on the mental health impact of physical violence rather than considering other forms of violence Objective : To systematically review the literature in order to identify the impact of all types of IPV victimisation on various mental health outcomes Method : A systematic review of 11 electronic databases (2004–2014) was conducted Fifty eight papers were identified and later described and reviewed in relation to the main objective Results : Main findings suggest that IPV can have increasing adverse effects on the mental health of victims in comparison with those who have never experienced IPV or those experiencing other traumatic events The most significant outcomes were associations between IPV experiences with depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and anxiety Findings confirm previous observations that the severity and extent of IPV exposure can increase mental health symptoms The effect of psychological violence on mental health is more prominent than originally thought Individual differences such as gender and childhood experience of violence also increase IPV risk and affect mental health outcomes in diverse ways Conclusions : Psychological violence should be considered as a more serious form of IPV which can affect the mental health of victims Experiencing more than one form of IPV can increase severity of outcomes Researchers should look at IPV as a multi-dimensional experience A uniformed definition and measure of IPV could help advance knowledge and understanding of this disparaging global issue Keywords: Intimate partner violence; domestic violence; PTSD; depression; gender; mental health Responsible Editor: Sheila Sprague, McMaster University, Canada This paper is part of the Special Issue: Intimate partner violence and mental health More papers from this issue can be found at http://wwweurojnlofpsychotraumatolnet (Published: 12 September 2014) Citation: European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2014, 5 : 24794 - http://dxdoiorg/103402/ejptv524794

Replicability and Generalizability of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Networks: A Cross-Cultural Multisite Study of PTSD Symptoms in Four Trauma Patient Samples

Abstract: 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, and the extent to which networks replicate across data sets, unknown. To overcome these limitations, the present cross-cultural multisite study estimated regularized partial correlation networks of 16 PTSD symptoms across four data sets of traumatized patients receiving treatment for PTSD (total N = 2,782). Despite differences in culture, trauma type, and severity of the samples, considerable similarities emerged, with moderate to high correlations between symptom profiles (0.43-0.82), network structures (0.62-0.74), and centrality estimates (0.63-0.75). We discuss the importance of future replicability efforts to improve clinical psychological science and provide code, model output, and correlation matrices to make the results of this article fully reproducible.

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