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Orla McBride is affiliated with the University of Ulster in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on psychological and social science research. Their work significantly intersects the fields of psychology and social sciences, with particular emphasis on clinical psychology and health-related topics.

Their research spans several subfields, including clinical psychology, health, social psychology, general health professions, and experimental and cognitive psychology. The main topics addressed in their work include health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 and mental health, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, mental health research topics, mental health treatment and access, migration, health and trauma, and child abuse and trauma.

Orla McBride has contributed to publications in various peer-reviewed journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
  • International Journal for Population Data Science
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a set of frequent co-authors. These collaborators include:

  • Mark Shevlin
  • Jamie Murphy
  • Richard P. Bentall
  • Philip Hyland
  • Todd K. Hartman

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Orla McBride include:

  • "Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020, BJPsych Open)
  • "Anxiety and depression in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)
  • "COVID-19-related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population" (2020, British Journal of Health Psychology)
  • "Refuting the myth of a 'tsunami' of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous" (2021, Psychological Medicine)

Best Publications

  • Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

    Jamie Murphy;Frédérique Vallières;Richard P. Bentall;Mark Shevlin

  • Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Mark Shevlin;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy;Jilly Gibson Miller

  • Anxiety and depression in the Republic of Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Philip Hyland;Philip Hyland;Mark Shevlin;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy

  • The structure of paranoia in the general population

    Paul E Bebbington;Orla McBride;Craig Steel;Elizabeth Kuipers

  • COVID-19-related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population.

    Mark Shevlin;Emma Nolan;Marcin Owczarek;Orla McBride

  • Mental well-being and mental illness: findings from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for England 2007.

    Scott Weich;Traolach Brugha;Michael King;Sally McManus

  • Prospective relationship of depressive symptoms, drinking, and tobacco smoking among middle-aged and elderly community-dwelling adults: Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

    Hui G. Cheng;Hui G. Cheng;Shengnan Chen;Orla McBride;Michael R. Phillips

  • Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Refuting the myth of a 'tsunami' of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous.

    Mark Shevlin;Sarah Butter;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy

  • Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Associated Comorbidity During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland: A Population-Based Study.

    Thanos Karatzias;Thanos Karatzias;Mark Shevlin;Jamie Murphy;Orla McBride

  • A systematic literature review of factor analytic and mixture models of ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire

    Enya Redican;Emma Nolan;Philip Hyland;Marylene Cloitre

  • An Evaluation of the Proposed DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorder Criteria Using Australian National Data

    Louise Mewton;Tim Slade;Orla McBride;Rachel Grove

  • Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study.

    Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy;Mark Shevlin;Jilly Gibson-Miller

  • Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Richard P Bentall;Alex Lloyd;Kate Bennett;Ryan McKay

  • A longitudinal assessment of depression and anxiety in the Republic of Ireland before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Philip Hyland;Philip Hyland;Mark Shevlin;Jamie Murphy;Orla McBride

  • Variation in compulsory psychiatric inpatient admission in England: a cross-classified, multilevel analysis

    Scott Weich;Orla McBride;Liz Twigg;Craig Duncan

  • Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United Kingdom.

    Jilly Gibson Miller;Todd K. Hartman;Liat Levita;Anton P. Martinez

  • How Does The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Population Mental Health? A Network Analysis of COVID Influences On Depression, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress in the UK Population.

    Orestis Zavlis;Sarah Butter;Kate Bennett;Todd K Hartman

  • The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

    Todd K. Hartman;Thomas V. A. Stocks;Ryan McKay;Jilly Gibson-Miller

  • How is loneliness related to anxiety and depression: A population‐based network analysis in the early lockdown period

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  • Reconciling the differences between the King et al. (1998) and Simms et al. (2002) factor models of PTSD

    Mark Shevlin;Orla McBride;Cherie Armour;Gary Adamson

  • A latent class analysis of DSM-IV pathological gambling criteria in a nationally representative British sample.

    Orla McBride;Gary Adamson;Mark Shevlin

  • Latent class analysis of co-morbidity in the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey in England 2007: implications for DSM-5 and ICD-11.

    Scott Weich;O. McBride;D. Hussey;D. Exeter

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Shevlin
Mark Shevlin University of Ulster
Philip Hyland
Philip Hyland National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Ryan McKay
Ryan McKay Royal Holloway University of London
Liat Levita
Liat Levita University of Sussex
Kate M. Bennett
Kate M. Bennett University of Liverpool
Frédérique Vallières
Frédérique Vallières Trinity College Dublin
Thanos Karatzias
Thanos Karatzias Edinburgh Napier University
Gary Adamson
Gary Adamson University of Ulster
Jan Scott
Jan Scott Newcastle University

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