Kristin Hadfield
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 372457 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kristin Hadfield |
| PRENOMES | Kristin |
| SOBRENOME | Hadfield |
| ASSINATURA | HADFIELD K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0234-0829 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Mental health and psychosocial support interventions for individuals affected by gender-based violence in fragile contexts
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global public health crisis exacerbated in fragile settings by gender inequalities, displacement, and resource scarcity. While mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions aim to support people with experience of GBV, research on their effectiveness across diverse fragile contexts remains limited. In this review, we answer the following questions: (1) What type(s) of MHPSS interventions are commonl…
Protective Paradox
Millions of children are growing up forcibly displaced in protracted crises lasting years or decades. We conducted the first global systematic review of protective parenting in protracted refugee situations, examining evidence in 22 languages across 10 databases, 16 humanitarian reports, and the top 100 websites from 72 host countries. From 45 studies, we identified three categories of parenting behaviours, the ‘3 Cs’ of parental protection: Cont…
A Youth‐Led Evaluation of Adolescent Involvement in a Project on Development of Guidelines for Adolescent Involvement in Health Research
BACKGROUND: Adolescent involvement in health research has numerous benefits for the research, researchers, and the adolescents involved. However, evidence on the impacts of adolescent involvement in health research is anecdotal and subjective, relying on informal reflections rather than prospectively planned and rigorous evaluations. These limitations of the current evidence base highlight the need for more structured and prospectively planned ev…
Conceptualisation and measurement of child hunger
Objective: Child hunger is a significant global health concern prioritised by multiple global public health organisations. In 2006, the US Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) highlighted the need for clarity and consistency in the operationalisation and measurement of child hunger. This review examines whether these recommendations have been implemented in child nutrition programming over the past two decades. In addition, we explore how ch…
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) in Addressing Paediatric Psychological Difficulties and Family Accommodations
Social capital, psychological resilience, and psychological distress in Chinese university students
The findings clarify the relationship between social capital, psychological resilience, and psychological distress in Chinese university students, addressing a key research gap by examining these relationships within the context of China. While the effect sizes are very small, our findings point toward potential practical solutions such as resilience training and stress management programs for universities aiming to enhance student wellbeing and …
Connectedness to Nature in Early Adolescence
Connectedness to nature is an emotional connection we feel with the natural world. Little is known about how early adolescents understand and explain this phenomenon. Through a grounded theory approach with 12 early adolescents (M=11.8 years, 50% female) in the UK and Ireland, we examined participant experiences, opinions, and attitudes about nature, which formed participants' beliefs on how to connect with the environment. This research proposes…
A rapid review of guidelines on the involvement of adolescents in health research
An umbrella review of reviews on challenges to meaningful adolescent involvement in health research
The use of creative art therapy to address the mental health of refugee adolescents
Acceptability and feasibility of a brief intervention to enhance resilience among young people and their families in India and Kenya
Enhancing resilience is one way to prevent future mental illnesses and encourage recovery in the face of adversity. To develop and test the acceptability and feasibility (A&F) of a combined family and individual resilience intervention in two rural/semi-rural low-income settings in India and Kenya. We developed a five-session intervention including Life Skills Education (LSE) and a model of family resiliency. Among adolescents aged 14-16 years an…
Feasibility and acceptability of phone-delivered psychological therapy for refugee children and adolescents in a humanitarian setting
Despite some challenges, telephone-delivered therapy for children shows promising evidence of feasibility and acceptability in a humanitarian context and has the potential to increase access to mental health services by hard-to-reach populations. Approaches to addressing challenges of telephone-delivered therapy are discussed. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03887312; registered 22nd March 2019
How to address the barriers to meaningful adolescent involvement in health research
The under-involvement of adolescents in health research has been attributed to multiple barriers faced by both researchers and adolescents. Despite identifying these barriers, the literature offers few solutions, mostly from the perspective of researchers. To address this, we conducted a qualitative study to explore effective strategies to address these barriers from the perspective of both researchers and adolescents. We conducted semi-structure…
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children
Many interventions have been developed to improve educational and developmental outcomes in Syrian refugee children. Here, we focus on one such intervention, We Love Reading, a community-led, shared book-reading program that was developed in Jordan by a Jordanian-run NGO. We conducted a grounded theory analysis of 21 semi-structured interviews with individuals who developed We Love Reading and/or were involved in its implementation. Participants …
Coparenting, mental health, and the pursuit of dignity
Facial emotion recognition in refugee children with a history of war trauma
Over 36 million children are currently displaced due to war, yet we know little about how these experiences of war and displacement affect their socioemotional development-notably how they perceive facial expressions. Across three different experiments, we investigated the effects of war trauma exposure on facial emotion recognition in Syrian refugee ( n = 130, M age = 9.3 years, 63 female) and Jordanian nonrefugee children ( n = 148, M age = 9.4…
Effects of preterm birth and parent–child relationships on socioemotional difficulties, verbal ability, and numerical ability among older children and young adolescents
Young children born preterm may be more affected by environmental influences than their full-term peers. Few studies have investigated whether such effects exist for older children and young adolescents. With participants aged 9 and 13 years, we examine whether children born preterm could be differentially affected by the quality of their relationship with their mothers and fathers. We used the Growing Up in Ireland dataset: a longitudinal sample…
War-related trauma linked to increased sustained attention to threat in children
Experiences of war and displacement can have profound effects on children's affective development and mental health, although the mechanism(s) underlying these effects remain unknown. This study investigated the link between early adversity and attention to affective stimuli using a free-viewing eye-tracking paradigm with Syrian refugee (n = 31, Mage = 9.55, 12 female) and Jordanian non-refugee (n = 55, Mage = 9.98, 30 female) children living in …
Youth Resilience to Violent Extremism
Building resilience to violent extremism has featured in preventing violent extremism efforts for over a decade. Validated and standardized cross-cultural measures can help identify protective capacities and vulnerabilities toward violent extremism for young people. Because drivers for violent extremism are multi-factorial, a measure of resilience cannot be used to predict who will and will not commit acts of terror. Instead, its purpose is to tr…
Comparing online and in-person surveys
Humanitarian research with Syrian refugees can be difficult to conduct in-person, due to COVID-19 containment, security, and logistics issues. We assessed whether the online implementation of a brief, culturally grounded resilience measure would yield reliable responses for use with children and adolescents in the Middle East region. We implemented an online survey screening for socio-economic status, insecurity, prosocial behaviour, and resilien…
Measuring the psychosocial, biological, and cognitive signatures of profound stress in humanitarian settings
Our work shows the value of rigorous research in humanitarian settings, emphasizing relevance for local communities and meaningful ways to build research ownership. Findings encourage the adoption of cognitive measures and stress biomarkers alongside self-report surveys in evaluating programme impacts. High-quality scientific research with youth can be feasible, useful, and ethical in humanitarian settings
Trauma, Resilience, and Mental Health in Migrant and Non-Migrant Youth
Resilience is a dynamic process of positive adaptation to significant adversity. While there has been substantial focus on risks and negative outcomes associated with youth migrancy, there is limited evidence of the relationship between the adversity of migration, and resilience, wellbeing, and positive mental health in adolescents. This international study aimed to explore the differences in resilience, wellbeing, and mental health behaviors in …
Postpartum Depression
Do Changes to Family Structure Affect Child and Family Outcomes? A Systematic Review of the Instability Hypothesis
Many children experience multiple family transitions as their parents move into and out of romantic relationships. The instability hypothesis is a stress mediation model that suggests that family transitions cause stress and that this stress leads to worse developmental outcomes. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the evidence base for this hypothesis. Thirty‐nine articles met the inclusion criteria. Most reports were secondary analyses…
Challenges of developing and conducting an international study of resilience in migrant adolescents
The sequelae of migration and the effects of local migration policies on children’s physical and mental health are critical to examine, particularly given the historically high numbers of migrants and displaced people. The vulnerability of the study sample and the need to work across cultures and contexts makes research on this group challenging. We outline lessons learned through conducting a pilot study of resilience resources and mental health…
Resilience in Context
Validated measures are needed for assessing resilience in conflict settings. An Arabic version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) was developed and tested in Jordan. Following qualitative work, surveys were implemented with male/female, refugee/nonrefugee samples (N = 603, 11-18 years). Confirmatory factor analyses tested three-factor structures for 28- and 12-item CYRMs and measurement equivalence across groups. CYRM-12 showed meas…
Including those that exclude themselves
Previous research has tended to classify stepfamilies based on self-report of their familial relationships. However, some stepfamily members do not identify as being part of a stepfamily, leading to the exclusion of certain stepfamilies from stepfamily research. Using data from the first national cohort study of children in Ireland, the aim of this study was to compare the characteristics of self-identifying stepfamilies with those of non-self-id…
Construction of Single Mothers' Roles as Gatekeepers Between Children and Nonresident Fathers
This study explores single mothers' roles as gatekeepers in the relationship between children and nonresident fathers in families, where fathers do not have a history of shared residence with their children. Thematic analysis of interviews with 34 mothers in Ireland revealed that the majority of mothers adopted gate-opening strategies, including active facilitation of father-child contact, conditional facilitation, and adoption of a 'hands-off ap…
The association between discrimination and violence among Somali Canadian youth
Analyses were conducted with a sample of 18–30-year-old Somali Canadians to test the association between discrimination and violence-related beliefs and behaviours, whether this association differs by the source of the discrimination, and whether there is a different pattern of effects for men and women. Results indicate that discrimination from within one’s own community is not associated with attitudes towards violence, anti-violence behaviours…
Comparing online and in-person surveys
Humanitarian research with Syrian refugees can be difficult to conduct in-person, due to COVID-19 containment, security, and logistics issues. We assessed whether the online implementation of a brief, culturally grounded resilience measure would yield reliable responses for use with children and adolescents in the Middle East region. We implemented an online survey screening for socio-economic status, insecurity, prosocial behaviour, and resilien…
He's Had Enough Fathers
Although research has documented the negative effects of family transitions generally on child and maternal outcomes, transitions into and out of mothers' relationships with partners who are not the father(s) of their child(ren) are less well understood. Through thematic analysis of semistructured interviews, this study investigated how 21 mothers and their 21 children (aged 9 to 18 years) responded to mothers' relationship formation following th…
Youth Resilience to Violent Extremism
Building resilience to violent extremism has featured in preventing violent extremism efforts for over a decade. Validated and standardized cross-cultural measures can help identify protective capacities and vulnerabilities toward violent extremism for young people. Because drivers for violent extremism are multi-factorial, a measure of resilience cannot be used to predict who will and will not commit acts of terror. Instead, its purpose is to tr…
Coparenting, mental health, and the pursuit of dignity
Including those that exclude themselves
Previous research has tended to classify stepfamilies based on self-report of their familial relationships. However, some stepfamily members do not identify as being part of a stepfamily, leading to the exclusion of certain stepfamilies from stepfamily research. Using data from the first national cohort study of children in Ireland, the aim of this study was to compare the characteristics of self-identifying stepfamilies with those of non-self-id…
Including those that exclude themselves
Resilience in Context
Validated measures are needed for assessing resilience in conflict settings. An Arabic version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) was developed and tested in Jordan. Following qualitative work, surveys were implemented with male/female, refugee/nonrefugee samples (N = 603, 11-18 years). Confirmatory factor analyses tested three-factor structures for 28- and 12-item CYRMs and measurement equivalence across groups. CYRM-12 showed meas…
Do Changes to Family Structure Affect Child and Family Outcomes? A Systematic Review of the Instability Hypothesis
Many children experience multiple family transitions as their parents move into and out of romantic relationships. The instability hypothesis is a stress mediation model that suggests that family transitions cause stress and that this stress leads to worse developmental outcomes. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the evidence base for this hypothesis. Thirty‐nine articles met the inclusion criteria. Most reports were secondary analyses…
Challenges of developing and conducting an international study of resilience in migrant adolescents
The sequelae of migration and the effects of local migration policies on children’s physical and mental health are critical to examine, particularly given the historically high numbers of migrants and displaced people. The vulnerability of the study sample and the need to work across cultures and contexts makes research on this group challenging. We outline lessons learned through conducting a pilot study of resilience resources and mental health…
The association between discrimination and violence among Somali Canadian youth
Analyses were conducted with a sample of 18–30-year-old Somali Canadians to test the association between discrimination and violence-related beliefs and behaviours, whether this association differs by the source of the discrimination, and whether there is a different pattern of effects for men and women. Results indicate that discrimination from within one’s own community is not associated with attitudes towards violence, anti-violence behaviours…
Construction of Single Mothers' Roles as Gatekeepers Between Children and Nonresident Fathers
This study explores single mothers' roles as gatekeepers in the relationship between children and nonresident fathers in families, where fathers do not have a history of shared residence with their children. Thematic analysis of interviews with 34 mothers in Ireland revealed that the majority of mothers adopted gate-opening strategies, including active facilitation of father-child contact, conditional facilitation, and adoption of a 'hands-off ap…
He's Had Enough Fathers
Although research has documented the negative effects of family transitions generally on child and maternal outcomes, transitions into and out of mothers' relationships with partners who are not the father(s) of their child(ren) are less well understood. Through thematic analysis of semistructured interviews, this study investigated how 21 mothers and their 21 children (aged 9 to 18 years) responded to mothers' relationship formation following th…
Postpartum Depression
Measuring the psychosocial, biological, and cognitive signatures of profound stress in humanitarian settings
Our work shows the value of rigorous research in humanitarian settings, emphasizing relevance for local communities and meaningful ways to build research ownership. Findings encourage the adoption of cognitive measures and stress biomarkers alongside self-report surveys in evaluating programme impacts. High-quality scientific research with youth can be feasible, useful, and ethical in humanitarian settings
Trauma, Resilience, and Mental Health in Migrant and Non-Migrant Youth
Resilience is a dynamic process of positive adaptation to significant adversity. While there has been substantial focus on risks and negative outcomes associated with youth migrancy, there is limited evidence of the relationship between the adversity of migration, and resilience, wellbeing, and positive mental health in adolescents. This international study aimed to explore the differences in resilience, wellbeing, and mental health behaviors in …
Comparing online and in-person surveys
Humanitarian research with Syrian refugees can be difficult to conduct in-person, due to COVID-19 containment, security, and logistics issues. We assessed whether the online implementation of a brief, culturally grounded resilience measure would yield reliable responses for use with children and adolescents in the Middle East region. We implemented an online survey screening for socio-economic status, insecurity, prosocial behaviour, and resilien…
War-related trauma linked to increased sustained attention to threat in children
Experiences of war and displacement can have profound effects on children's affective development and mental health, although the mechanism(s) underlying these effects remain unknown. This study investigated the link between early adversity and attention to affective stimuli using a free-viewing eye-tracking paradigm with Syrian refugee (n = 31, Mage = 9.55, 12 female) and Jordanian non-refugee (n = 55, Mage = 9.98, 30 female) children living in …
Youth Resilience to Violent Extremism
Building resilience to violent extremism has featured in preventing violent extremism efforts for over a decade. Validated and standardized cross-cultural measures can help identify protective capacities and vulnerabilities toward violent extremism for young people. Because drivers for violent extremism are multi-factorial, a measure of resilience cannot be used to predict who will and will not commit acts of terror. Instead, its purpose is to tr…
Facial emotion recognition in refugee children with a history of war trauma
Over 36 million children are currently displaced due to war, yet we know little about how these experiences of war and displacement affect their socioemotional development-notably how they perceive facial expressions. Across three different experiments, we investigated the effects of war trauma exposure on facial emotion recognition in Syrian refugee ( n = 130, M age = 9.3 years, 63 female) and Jordanian nonrefugee children ( n = 148, M age = 9.4…
Effects of preterm birth and parent–child relationships on socioemotional difficulties, verbal ability, and numerical ability among older children and young adolescents
Young children born preterm may be more affected by environmental influences than their full-term peers. Few studies have investigated whether such effects exist for older children and young adolescents. With participants aged 9 and 13 years, we examine whether children born preterm could be differentially affected by the quality of their relationship with their mothers and fathers. We used the Growing Up in Ireland dataset: a longitudinal sample…
Connectedness to Nature in Early Adolescence
Connectedness to nature is an emotional connection we feel with the natural world. Little is known about how early adolescents understand and explain this phenomenon. Through a grounded theory approach with 12 early adolescents (M=11.8 years, 50% female) in the UK and Ireland, we examined participant experiences, opinions, and attitudes about nature, which formed participants' beliefs on how to connect with the environment. This research proposes…
A rapid review of guidelines on the involvement of adolescents in health research
An umbrella review of reviews on challenges to meaningful adolescent involvement in health research
The use of creative art therapy to address the mental health of refugee adolescents
Acceptability and feasibility of a brief intervention to enhance resilience among young people and their families in India and Kenya
Enhancing resilience is one way to prevent future mental illnesses and encourage recovery in the face of adversity. To develop and test the acceptability and feasibility (A&F) of a combined family and individual resilience intervention in two rural/semi-rural low-income settings in India and Kenya. We developed a five-session intervention including Life Skills Education (LSE) and a model of family resiliency. Among adolescents aged 14-16 years an…
Feasibility and acceptability of phone-delivered psychological therapy for refugee children and adolescents in a humanitarian setting
Despite some challenges, telephone-delivered therapy for children shows promising evidence of feasibility and acceptability in a humanitarian context and has the potential to increase access to mental health services by hard-to-reach populations. Approaches to addressing challenges of telephone-delivered therapy are discussed. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03887312; registered 22nd March 2019
How to address the barriers to meaningful adolescent involvement in health research
The under-involvement of adolescents in health research has been attributed to multiple barriers faced by both researchers and adolescents. Despite identifying these barriers, the literature offers few solutions, mostly from the perspective of researchers. To address this, we conducted a qualitative study to explore effective strategies to address these barriers from the perspective of both researchers and adolescents. We conducted semi-structure…
Exploring Factors Related to the Development and Implementation of a Local Intervention Program for Syrian Refugee Children
Many interventions have been developed to improve educational and developmental outcomes in Syrian refugee children. Here, we focus on one such intervention, We Love Reading, a community-led, shared book-reading program that was developed in Jordan by a Jordanian-run NGO. We conducted a grounded theory analysis of 21 semi-structured interviews with individuals who developed We Love Reading and/or were involved in its implementation. Participants …
Coparenting, mental health, and the pursuit of dignity
Psychology (21 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Developmental psychology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Mental health (7 obras) · Psychiatry (7 obras)