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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Matthew Hotopf is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, and Applied Psychology.

Their work encompasses several main topics including mental health research, health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 and mental health, digital mental health interventions, mental health treatment and access, chronic disease management strategies, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Hotopf has contributed to a number of recent publications, including:

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Says who? The significance of sampling in mental health surveys during COVID-19, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Mental health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: a latent class trajectory analysis using longitudinal UK data, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Mental health in UK Biobank - development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants: a reanalysis, 2020, BJPsych Open

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Hotopf's common co-authors include Faith Matcham, Richard Dobson, Vaibhav A. Narayan, Sharon A. M. Stevelink, and Sara Simblett.

Their work appears regularly in scientific venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Psychological Medicine, Journal of Affective Disorders, PLoS ONE, and arXiv (Cornell University).

In addition to journal articles, Hotopf has contributed to book publications, including a 2023 book titled Mental health of healthcare professionals, published by Frontiers Media.

Among their academic distinctions, Hotopf has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.

    Emily A. Holmes;Emily A. Holmes;Rory C O'Connor;V. Hugh Perry;Irene Tracey

  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population.

    Matthias Pierce;Holly Hope;Tamsin Ford;Stephani Hatch

  • The prevalence of depression in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Faith Matcham;Lauren Rayner;Sophia Steer;Matthew Hotopf

  • Life Expectancy at Birth for People with Serious Mental Illness and Other Major Disorders from a Secondary Mental Health Care Case Register in London

    Chin-Kuo Chang;Richard D. Hayes;Gayan Perera;Mathew T. M. Broadbent

  • Medically unexplained symptoms: an epidemiological study in seven specialities.

    Chaichana Nimnuan;Matthew Hotopf;Simon Wessely

  • What are the consequences of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan on the mental health of the UK armed forces? A cohort study

    Nicola T Fear;Margaret Jones;Dominic Murphy;Lisa Hull

  • Health of UK servicemen who served in Persian Gulf War

    Catherine Unwin;Nick Blatchley;William Coker;Susan Ferry

  • Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study.

    Rachael A Evans;Hamish McAuley;Ewen M Harrison;Aarti Shikotra

  • The health of UK military personnel who deployed to the 2003 Iraq war: a cohort study

    Matthew Hotopf;Lisa Hull;Nicola T Fear;Tess Browne

  • Depression in advanced disease: a systematic review - Part 1. Prevalence and case finding

    M Hotopf;J Chidgey;J Addington-Hall;K Lan Ly

  • The impact of rheumatoid arthritis on quality-of-life assessed using the SF-36: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Faith Matcham;Ian C. Scott;Lauren Rayner;Matthew Hotopf

  • Exercise and the Prevention of Depression: Results of the HUNT Cohort Study

    Samuel B. Harvey;Simon Øverland;Stephani L. Hatch;Simon Wessely

  • Chronic Fatigue and Its Syndromes

    Simon Wessely;Matthew Hotopf;Michael Sharpe

  • The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLAM BRC) case register : development and descriptive data.

    Robert Stewart;Mishael Soremekun;Gayan Perera;Matthew Broadbent;Matthew Broadbent

  • Mental health in UK Biobank – development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants: a reanalysis

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  • A systematic review describing the prognosis of chronic fatigue syndrome.

    R Cairns;Matthew Hotopf

  • Risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder among UK Armed Forces personnel.

    A. C. Iversen;N. T. Fear;A. Ehlers;J. Hacker Hughes

  • Prevalence of mental incapacity in medical inpatients and associated risk factors: cross-sectional study

    Vanessa Raymont;William Bingley;Alec Buchanan;Anthony S David

  • Work and common psychiatric disorders.

    M Henderson;SB Harvey;S Øverland;A Mykletun;A Mykletun

  • A major role for common genetic variation in anxiety disorders

    Kirstin L. Purves;Jonathan R. I. Coleman;Sandra M. Meier;Sandra M. Meier;Sandra M. Meier;Christopher Rayner

  • Relation between headache in childhood and physical and psychiatric symptoms in adulthood: national birth cohort study.

    Paul Fearon;Matthew Hotopf

  • Drug therapy for the management of cancer related fatigue

    Ollie Minton;Alison Richardson;Michael Sharpe;Matthew Hotopf

  • Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Probability Sample Survey of the UK Population

    Matthias Pierce;Holly Hope;Tamsin Ford;Stephani Hatch

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Wessely
Simon Wessely King's College London
Stephani L. Hatch
Stephani L. Hatch King's College London
Robert Stewart
Robert Stewart King's College London
Faith Matcham
Faith Matcham University of Sussex
Nicola T. Fear
Nicola T. Fear King's College London
Gerome Breen
Gerome Breen King's College London
Anthony J. Cleare
Anthony J. Cleare King's College London
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Carmine M. Pariante
Carmine M. Pariante King's College London
Trudie Chalder
Trudie Chalder King's College London

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