Claire Goodfellow

Claire Goodfellow
University of Glasgow | UofG · MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

PhD

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Introduction
Currently a Research Fellow at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. I’ve previously worked as a postdoc on the ESRC funded project: Loneliness and Wellbeing Among Adolescents and Young Adults. My PhD investigated help-seeking among adolescents, focussing on the roles of mental health literacy and stigma in determining help-seeking intention for a mental health problem.
Education
October 2016 - June 2020
University of Strathclyde
Field of study
  • Public Health and Health Policy
September 2012 - September 2013
University College London
Field of study
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
September 2004 - June 2008
University of St Andrews
Field of study
  • Psychology

Publications

Publications (26)
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The aim of the current study was to assess associations between loneliness and personal wellbeing among young people. Framed by social ecological theory, the study examined demographic, social, and community factors associated with personal wellbeing and, critically, identified malleable moderators of the relationship between loneliness and persona...
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Background: Loneliness is a growing public health concern, yet little is known about loneliness in young people. The current study aimed to identify social ecological factors related to loneliness and examine the extent to which geographic region may account for differences in loneliness. Methods: The data come from a cross-sectional sample of 6...
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Background Mental wellbeing in the UK seems to have deteriorated significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rates of loneliness, life satisfaction, and psychological distress taking longer to return to the pre-pandemic levels than elsewhere. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge about the interactions between these outcomes, or the fact...
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Background The majority of long‐term mental health problems begin during adolescence. Low mental health literacy (MHL) may impede help‐seeking for these problems. Although MHL is a multidimensional construct and adolescent help‐seeking can be through formal and informal means, little is known about how dimensions of MHL influence these help‐seeking...
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Background: Adolescent loneliness and poor mental health represent dual public health concerns. Yet, associations between loneliness and mental health, and critically, how these associations vary in school settings are less understood. Aims: Framed by social-ecological theory, we aimed to identify key predictors of adolescent mental health and e...
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Mental health problems in adolescence can have lasting impacts on health, educational and socioeconomic outcomes across the life course. However, current approaches in adolescent mental health do not fully capture the complexity of adolescents’ social and emotional contexts. Classic methods to understand influences on mental health take an individu...
Conference Paper
Background Due to the problems unyielding nature, key bodies such as the Scottish Government have endorsed whole school approaches to improve adolescent mental health. Developing effective interventions in complex social environments can benefit from novel investigative methods and tools based on complexity theory. Whilst standard tools find it dif...
Conference Paper
Background Peer interactions and social situations significantly impact pupils’ well-being, and research into these can help us to understand how to minimise negative effects. Our SOCial sITuational Systems (SOCITS) approach to measuring and modelling influences on adolescent mental health is one that can be undertaken in schools by researchers and...
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Aim Social relationships are key public health priorities, with their relevance to wellbeing amplified in recent years. Relationships are embedded within the wider environment in which they occur; however, we lack understanding of whether, and how, places may affect social relationships. This study utilises an urban vs rural framework to examine va...
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Students who began their undergraduate university studies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic (the ‘COVID cohort’), may have been particularly at risk for experiencing increased loneliness. This study employed an exploratory egocentric network and mixed-methods approach to investigate the links between social networks and loneliness in the COVID...
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This study examines urban-rural variation in loneliness, social support, and social networks, and their links to wellbeing, using cross-sectional social network data collected in Scotland in 2021 (N = 191). Bivariate comparisons tested for differences in loneliness, social support, and social networks between urban and rural participants. Multivari...
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Aim Mental wellbeing in the UK seems to have deteriorated significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rates of loneliness, life satisfaction and psychological distress taking longer to return to the pre-pandemic levels than elsewhere. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge about the interactions between these outcomes, or the factors that...
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Introduction Loneliness is prevalent among young people. But, there is little work exploring the association between loneliness with well‐being among this age group. Framed by social‐ecological theory, we examined demographic, interpersonal, and community factors associated with personal wellbeing and, critically, identified malleable moderators of...
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Adolescent loneliness and poor mental health represent dual public health concerns. Yet, associations between loneliness and mental health, and critically, how these unfold in school settings are less understood. Framed by social ecological theory, this study aimed to identify key predictors of adolescent mental health, and examine school-level var...
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Background: Adolescence is a critical period for the development of mental health problems. However low mental health literacy (MHL) may impede help-seeking for these problems. Although MHL is a multidimensional construct and adolescent help-seeking can be through formal and informal means, little is known about how dimensions of MHL influence thes...
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Loneliness is particularly prevalent among young people, however less is known about loneliness and its associations with wellbeing among this age group. Framed by social ecological theory, we examined demographic, social, and community factors associated with personal wellbeing and, critically, identified malleable moderators of the relationship b...
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Background Loneliness a growing public health concern. This is particularly so in light of the Covid-19 pandemic which has highlighted the detrimental psychosocial consequences of loneliness. Loneliness is a particularly pervasive problem among young adults, but despite this, most research examining loneliness is among older adults. Loneliness is a...
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School absenteeism is detrimental to life course outcomes and is known to be socioeconomically stratified. However, the link between socioeconomic status (SES) and school absence is complex given the multidimensional nature of both family SES (e.g., income, education, occupational status) and absenteeism (e.g., truancy, sickness, suspension). Despi...
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Introduction: Most individuals treated for heroin use disorder receive opioid agonist treatment (OAT)(methadone or buprenorphine). However, OAT is associated with high attrition and persistent, occasional heroin use. There is some evidence for the effectiveness of contingency management (CM), a behavioural intervention involving modest financial i...
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Background: Loneliness is a growing public health concern, yet little is known about loneliness in young people. The current study aimed to identify social ecological factors related to loneliness and examine the extent to which geographic region accounts for differences in loneliness. Methods: The data come from a cross-sectional sample of 6503 y...
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This brief summarises research which investigated how different components of mental health literacy (MHL) as well as both personal and perceived stigmas act on adolescent help-seeking intention. Policy recommendations are made in references to the development of mental health literacy interventions in schools.
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While investigation on family estrangement is growing within academic circles, research regarding the interconnection between experiences of estrangement and higher education (HE) is still limited. Sociological understandings of these issues are even scarcer, with policy interventions and practical guidance forming early interventions in HE. Set wi...
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Family is widely regarded as a cornerstone of student support. When family support exist as an essential form of social capital making, rupture of family ties places students in a disadvantageous position. This paper focuses on estranged students’ accounts of their experiences of higher education, highlighting how capital dynamics shape their acade...
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There are approximately 256,000 heroin and other opiate users in England of whom 155,000 are in treatment for heroin (or opiate) addiction. The majority of people in treatment receive opiate substitution treatment (OST) (methadone and buprenorphine). However, OST suffers from high attrition and persistent heroin use even whilst in treatment. Contin...

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