Stephani L Hatch
Biographic Data
| ID | 96430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephani L Hatch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephani L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatch |
| SIGNATURE | HATCH S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9103-2427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Towards a new model of population mental health research and policy translation in the UK: Establishing a National consortium
Coping strategies for race-related stress among black undergraduate and postgraduate students in UK higher education: An adapted biographical narrative interpretive method and thematic analysis study
Racially minoritised students at historically and predominately white universities (HWUs) often anticipate and experience interpersonal and institutional racial discrimination, which may impact their mental and physical wellbeing. There is limited research on coping strategies for race-based stress among Black UK university students. This article answered the research question: How do Black university students cope with racism and other life stre…
Using digital qualitative diaries to understand how socioeconomic disadvantage shaped young people’s academic experiences and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic
How poverty shapes children’s home, neighborhood, and school environments: An integrative conceptual framework and review
Poverty is a notable feature of societies around the world. Poverty constrains children's development and life opportunities, largely through its impacts on environmental forces. As such, it is essential to understand the contexts of poverty. This integrative review presents a conceptual framework of the contextual forces imposed by poverty in children's key proximal environments-their homes, neighborhoods, and schools-delineating both structural…
How can I thrive in an institution that hates me?”: Impact of racism and other stressful life experiences on black postgraduate students’ mental health
Black postgraduate students in the UK are exposed to institutional and interpersonal racism that may impact their mental wellbeing and educational experiences. Minimal research exists to understand how racism and other stressful life experiences shape postgraduate students’ mental health and wellbeing as they progress through education, which this study aimed to achieve. Biographical Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) interviews (n = 12) were c…
A Qualitative Evaluation of the Motivations, Experiences, and Impact of a Mental Wellbeing Peer Support Group for Black University Students in England and Wales: The Case of Black Students Talk
Online peer support programs could address mental wellbeing concerns reported by Black students. The current evaluation explored Black university students’ motivations, experiences, and perceived impacts of an online mental wellbeing peer support group (Black Students Talk [BST]) in England and Wales. We conducted two focus groups with Black Students Talk attendees and one with facilitators. Data were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. T…
Covid‐19, social restrictions, and mental distress among young people: A UK longitudinal, population‐based study
BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a critical period for social and emotional development. We sought to examine the impacts of Covid-19 and related social restrictions and school closures on adolescent mental health, particularly among disadvantaged, marginalised, and vulnerable groups. METHODS: We analysed four waves of data - 3 pre-Covid-19 (2016-2019) and 1 mid-Covid-19 (May-Aug 2020; n, 1074; 12-18 years old, >80% minority ethnic groups, 25% free sch…
A comparison of single and intersectional social identities associated with discrimination and mental health service use: Data from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey in England
Inequities in mental health service use (MHSU) and treatment are influenced by social stratification processes linked to socially contextualised interactions between individuals, organisations and institutions. These complex relations underpin observed inequities and their experience by people at the intersections of social statuses. Discrimination is one important mechanism influencing such differences. We compared inequities in MHSU/treatment t…
They created a team of almost entirely the people who work and are like them: A qualitative study of organisational culture and racialised inequalities among healthcare staff
Racially and ethnically minoritised healthcare staff groups disproportionately experience and witness workplace discrimination from patients, colleagues and managers. This is visible in their under-representation at senior levels and over-representation in disciplinary proceedings and is associated with adversities such as greater depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, low job satisfaction and sickness absence. In the UK, little progress has been…
Mental health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A latent class trajectory analysis using longitudinal UK data
“There Is So Much More for Us to Lose If We Were to Kill Ourselves”: Understanding Paradoxically Low Rates of Self-Harm in a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Community in London
London has unexpectedly low overall rates of self-harm in public health data and contains highly deprived areas with these paradoxically low rates. Qualitative data were collected via interviews and focus groups with 26 individuals living and working in one such area. Using the Stress Process Model, we explore why this ethnically diverse community, which is exposed to multiple, chronic stressors, might nonetheless appear to have low rates of self…
Race, ethnicity and Covid-19 vaccination: A qualitative study of UK healthcare staff
Drawing on a critical race perspective, we conclude that acknowledging historical and contemporary abuses of power is essential to avoid perpetuating and aggravating mistrust by de-contextualising hesitancy from the social processes affecting hesitancy, undermining efforts to increase vaccine uptake
Mental health before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population
Says who? The significance of sampling in mental health surveys during Covid-19
Young Muslim Pakistani Women's Lived Experiences of Izzat, Mental Health, and Well-Being
This article explores how six Pakistani Muslim women interpret cultural concepts of izzat (honor and self-respect); what role, if any, it has in their lives; and whether there is interplay between upholding izzat and the participants' help-seeking strategies for mental health and well-being. Semistructured interviews were conducted and analyzed with an interpretative phenomenological analytic framework. Three themes were identified: (a) "the rule…
The roles of non-cognitive and cognitive skills in the life course development of adult health inequalities
Growth Factor Proteins and Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Place on the Path to Precision
Background: Since the neurotrophic hypothesis of depression was formulated, conflicting results have been reported regarding the role of growth factor proteins in depressed patients, including whether there are state or trait alterations found in patients compared to controls and whether they represent predictors of treatment response. Recently it has been hypothesized that heterogeneity of findings within this literature might be partly explaine…
Barrier or stressor? The role of discrimination experiences in health service use
Discrimination and common mental disorder among migrant and ethnic groups: Findings from a South East London Community sample
The strength of the relationship suggests a need for more consideration of migration status along with ethnicity in examining the impact of discrimination on mental disorder in community and clinical samples
Exploring Professional Help-Seeking for Mental Disorders
Only a third of people with mental disorders seek professional help. In this study, we aimed to investigate attitudes toward help-seeking among non-help-seekers drawn from a community survey in South London. We conducted qualitative interviews with 24 participants with symptoms of mental disorders. We analyzed data using thematic analysis. Participants' reasons for not seeking professional help included perceiving their problems as normal or unsu…
Medical and Welfare Officers beliefs about post-deployment screening for mental health disorders in the UK Armed Forces: A qualitative study
Welfare and healthcare providers are well disposed towards a screening programme for mental health but highlight a few concerns in its implementation. In particular Welfare Officers appear to require more training in how to respond to mental ill health. Concerns about available funding and resources to respond to increased workload will need to be addressed should post-deployment screening for mental health be introduced in the UK military
Exploring evidence for a prospective relationship between common mental disorder and meeting residential mobility preferences
Challenges in researching migration status, health and health service use: An intersectional analysis of a South London community
Disaggregating migration status by length of residence, first language and reason for migration as well as intersecting it with ethnicity leads to better understanding of the effect migration status has on health and health service use
Life in and after the Armed Forces: Social networks and mental health in the UK military
This study focuses on the influence of structural aspects of social integration (social networks and social participation outside work) on mental health (common mental disorders (CMD), that is, depression and anxiety symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and alcohol misuse). This study examines differences in levels of social integration and associations between social integration and mental health among service leavers and per…
Identifying socio-demographic and socioeconomic determinants of health inequalities in a diverse London community: The South East London Community Health (SelcoH) study
Health service providers and policy makers should prioritise high risk, socially defined groups in combating inequalities in individual and co-occurring poor mental and physical problems. In population terms, poor mental health has a similar or greater burden on functional impairment than long term conditions and perceived health
Discrimination and common mental disorder among migrant and ethnic groups: Findings from a South East London Community sample
The strength of the relationship suggests a need for more consideration of migration status along with ethnicity in examining the impact of discrimination on mental disorder in community and clinical samples
Childhood cognitive ability and adult mental health in the British 1946 birth cohort
Laying Down Their Rifles: The Changing Influences on the Retention of Volunteer British Army Reservists Returning from Iraq, 2003-2006
U.K. Reserve Forces, principally the Territorial Army (TA), have been increasingly used since the end of the cold war, but there have been some concerns about their mental health problems and also possible unwillingness to remain in service. This article reports on the retention issues of 191 TA personnel who deployed to Iraq from 2003 to 2006. Qualitative data were thematically analyzed from three complementary studies. The authors found that, i…
A Life Course Approach to the Development of Mental Skills
A wide variety of factors across the life course jointly influence cognitive and emotional development. Indeed, research from a variety of disciplines strongly suggests that cognition and mental health are intertwined across the life course, by their common antecedents and underlying physiology in development and in their interplay across adult and later life. We suggest that cognitive and socioemotional function fuse to form skills for life supp…
Life in and after the Armed Forces: Social networks and mental health in the UK military
This study focuses on the influence of structural aspects of social integration (social networks and social participation outside work) on mental health (common mental disorders (CMD), that is, depression and anxiety symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and alcohol misuse). This study examines differences in levels of social integration and associations between social integration and mental health among service leavers and per…
The Continuing Benefits of Education: Adult Education and Midlife Cognitive Ability in the British 1946 Birth Cohort
Associations between adult education and midlife cognitive ability indicate wider benefits of education to health that may be important for social integration, well-being, and the delay of cognitive decline in later life
Exploring Professional Help-Seeking for Mental Disorders
Only a third of people with mental disorders seek professional help. In this study, we aimed to investigate attitudes toward help-seeking among non-help-seekers drawn from a community survey in South London. We conducted qualitative interviews with 24 participants with symptoms of mental disorders. We analyzed data using thematic analysis. Participants' reasons for not seeking professional help included perceiving their problems as normal or unsu…
The roles of non-cognitive and cognitive skills in the life course development of adult health inequalities
Challenges in researching migration status, health and health service use: An intersectional analysis of a South London community
Disaggregating migration status by length of residence, first language and reason for migration as well as intersecting it with ethnicity leads to better understanding of the effect migration status has on health and health service use
Race, ethnicity and Covid-19 vaccination: A qualitative study of UK healthcare staff
Drawing on a critical race perspective, we conclude that acknowledging historical and contemporary abuses of power is essential to avoid perpetuating and aggravating mistrust by de-contextualising hesitancy from the social processes affecting hesitancy, undermining efforts to increase vaccine uptake
Barrier or stressor? The role of discrimination experiences in health service use
Exploring evidence for a prospective relationship between common mental disorder and meeting residential mobility preferences
A comparison of single and intersectional social identities associated with discrimination and mental health service use: Data from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey in England
Inequities in mental health service use (MHSU) and treatment are influenced by social stratification processes linked to socially contextualised interactions between individuals, organisations and institutions. These complex relations underpin observed inequities and their experience by people at the intersections of social statuses. Discrimination is one important mechanism influencing such differences. We compared inequities in MHSU/treatment t…
Young Muslim Pakistani Women's Lived Experiences of Izzat, Mental Health, and Well-Being
This article explores how six Pakistani Muslim women interpret cultural concepts of izzat (honor and self-respect); what role, if any, it has in their lives; and whether there is interplay between upholding izzat and the participants' help-seeking strategies for mental health and well-being. Semistructured interviews were conducted and analyzed with an interpretative phenomenological analytic framework. Three themes were identified: (a) "the rule…
A developmental-contextual approach to understanding mental health and well-being in early adulthood
They created a team of almost entirely the people who work and are like them: A qualitative study of organisational culture and racialised inequalities among healthcare staff
Racially and ethnically minoritised healthcare staff groups disproportionately experience and witness workplace discrimination from patients, colleagues and managers. This is visible in their under-representation at senior levels and over-representation in disciplinary proceedings and is associated with adversities such as greater depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, low job satisfaction and sickness absence. In the UK, little progress has been…
Does Adolescent Affect Impact Adult Social Integration? Evidence from the British 1946 Birth Cohort
Using data from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the British 1946 birth cohort), we take a life course approach with a sociology of mental health framework to examine the relationship between adolescent affect and adult social integration. The results suggest that being observed as anxious or sad in adolescence has a long-term effect on adult social integration.These associations are not explained by adult mental health or socio…
Conceptualizing and Identifying Cumulative Adversity and Protective Resources: Implications for Understanding Health Inequalities
This article focuses on cumulative adversity and protective resources, both social and biological, that interrupt or deflect individuals from optimal life-course trajectories and contribute to widening gaps in health. Under the guiding framework of cumulative adversity and/or advantage, this narrative discusses the theoretical framework of cumulative adversity, presents identified sources of cumulative adversity and protective resources, and high…
Distribution of Traumatic and Other Stressful Life Events by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, SES and Age: A Review of the Research
Much research has shown that reports of stressful life events are related to a wide variety of psychiatric and physical health outcomes. Relatively little research exists, however, on the distribution of the events according to gender, age, racial/ethnic background, and socioeconomic status (SES). Such information would help identify groups at greatest risk for further investigation. This paper presents a review of the relevant studies. We find t…
The Continuing Benefits of Education: Adult Education and Midlife Cognitive Ability in the British 1946 Birth Cohort
Associations between adult education and midlife cognitive ability indicate wider benefits of education to health that may be important for social integration, well-being, and the delay of cognitive decline in later life
Childhood cognitive ability and adult mental health in the British 1946 birth cohort
Does Adolescent Affect Impact Adult Social Integration? Evidence from the British 1946 Birth Cohort
Using data from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the British 1946 birth cohort), we take a life course approach with a sociology of mental health framework to examine the relationship between adolescent affect and adult social integration. The results suggest that being observed as anxious or sad in adolescence has a long-term effect on adult social integration.These associations are not explained by adult mental health or socio…
A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Perceptions of the Media by Members of the British Forces during the Iraq War
Little is known about service personnel’s perceptions of the media’s coverage of war and its impact on the personnel and their families. Using data collected from a major cohort study of the British Armed Forces, this article examines perceptions of the coverage of the Iraq War among British personnel deployed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Operation Telic 1). It draws on the theories of media’s effects and gauges whether hostile media effect …
A developmental-contextual approach to understanding mental health and well-being in early adulthood
Laying Down Their Rifles: The Changing Influences on the Retention of Volunteer British Army Reservists Returning from Iraq, 2003-2006
U.K. Reserve Forces, principally the Territorial Army (TA), have been increasingly used since the end of the cold war, but there have been some concerns about their mental health problems and also possible unwillingness to remain in service. This article reports on the retention issues of 191 TA personnel who deployed to Iraq from 2003 to 2006. Qualitative data were thematically analyzed from three complementary studies. The authors found that, i…
Identifying socio-demographic and socioeconomic determinants of health inequalities in a diverse London community: The South East London Community Health (SelcoH) study
Health service providers and policy makers should prioritise high risk, socially defined groups in combating inequalities in individual and co-occurring poor mental and physical problems. In population terms, poor mental health has a similar or greater burden on functional impairment than long term conditions and perceived health
A Life Course Approach to the Development of Mental Skills
A wide variety of factors across the life course jointly influence cognitive and emotional development. Indeed, research from a variety of disciplines strongly suggests that cognition and mental health are intertwined across the life course, by their common antecedents and underlying physiology in development and in their interplay across adult and later life. We suggest that cognitive and socioemotional function fuse to form skills for life supp…
Life in and after the Armed Forces: Social networks and mental health in the UK military
This study focuses on the influence of structural aspects of social integration (social networks and social participation outside work) on mental health (common mental disorders (CMD), that is, depression and anxiety symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and alcohol misuse). This study examines differences in levels of social integration and associations between social integration and mental health among service leavers and per…
Challenges in researching migration status, health and health service use: An intersectional analysis of a South London community
Disaggregating migration status by length of residence, first language and reason for migration as well as intersecting it with ethnicity leads to better understanding of the effect migration status has on health and health service use
Medical and Welfare Officers beliefs about post-deployment screening for mental health disorders in the UK Armed Forces: A qualitative study
Welfare and healthcare providers are well disposed towards a screening programme for mental health but highlight a few concerns in its implementation. In particular Welfare Officers appear to require more training in how to respond to mental ill health. Concerns about available funding and resources to respond to increased workload will need to be addressed should post-deployment screening for mental health be introduced in the UK military
Exploring evidence for a prospective relationship between common mental disorder and meeting residential mobility preferences
Discrimination and common mental disorder among migrant and ethnic groups: Findings from a South East London Community sample
The strength of the relationship suggests a need for more consideration of migration status along with ethnicity in examining the impact of discrimination on mental disorder in community and clinical samples
Exploring Professional Help-Seeking for Mental Disorders
Only a third of people with mental disorders seek professional help. In this study, we aimed to investigate attitudes toward help-seeking among non-help-seekers drawn from a community survey in South London. We conducted qualitative interviews with 24 participants with symptoms of mental disorders. We analyzed data using thematic analysis. Participants' reasons for not seeking professional help included perceiving their problems as normal or unsu…
Growth Factor Proteins and Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Place on the Path to Precision
Background: Since the neurotrophic hypothesis of depression was formulated, conflicting results have been reported regarding the role of growth factor proteins in depressed patients, including whether there are state or trait alterations found in patients compared to controls and whether they represent predictors of treatment response. Recently it has been hypothesized that heterogeneity of findings within this literature might be partly explaine…
Barrier or stressor? The role of discrimination experiences in health service use
Young Muslim Pakistani Women's Lived Experiences of Izzat, Mental Health, and Well-Being
This article explores how six Pakistani Muslim women interpret cultural concepts of izzat (honor and self-respect); what role, if any, it has in their lives; and whether there is interplay between upholding izzat and the participants' help-seeking strategies for mental health and well-being. Semistructured interviews were conducted and analyzed with an interpretative phenomenological analytic framework. Three themes were identified: (a) "the rule…
The roles of non-cognitive and cognitive skills in the life course development of adult health inequalities
Mental health before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population
Says who? The significance of sampling in mental health surveys during Covid-19
Mental health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A latent class trajectory analysis using longitudinal UK data
“There Is So Much More for Us to Lose If We Were to Kill Ourselves”: Understanding Paradoxically Low Rates of Self-Harm in a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Community in London
London has unexpectedly low overall rates of self-harm in public health data and contains highly deprived areas with these paradoxically low rates. Qualitative data were collected via interviews and focus groups with 26 individuals living and working in one such area. Using the Stress Process Model, we explore why this ethnically diverse community, which is exposed to multiple, chronic stressors, might nonetheless appear to have low rates of self…
Race, ethnicity and Covid-19 vaccination: A qualitative study of UK healthcare staff
Drawing on a critical race perspective, we conclude that acknowledging historical and contemporary abuses of power is essential to avoid perpetuating and aggravating mistrust by de-contextualising hesitancy from the social processes affecting hesitancy, undermining efforts to increase vaccine uptake
Mental health (25 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Psychiatry (20 works) · Population (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (10 works) · Socioeconomic status (9 works)