Publications by authors named "Ciara Joyce"

Resilience, or successful coping with the experience of stressful life events (SLEs), protects against depression, but its operational mechanisms are unclear. Views diverge whether resilience intervenes as a trait or as a process of dynamic interactions of protective factors, such as self-esteem, social support and family cohesion. We evaluated five theoretically-based models of how resilience, defined as either a trait or a process, interacts with recent SLEs, to explain depressive symptomatology in 2434 university students.

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In this study, we undertook a narrative analysis of participants' long-term lived experience of eating disorders and specialist service provision. Eight participants were recruited with service experience across five National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in the United Kingdom. All participants had a minimum of 10 years self-reported experience living with an eating disorder.

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Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy is one of the main and preferred treatments for generalized anxiety disorder. Numerous barriers can hinder an individual from seeking or receiving appropriate treatment; internet-delivered CBT interventions offer a relatively new means of increasing access to treatment.

Methods: A service-based effectiveness randomised waiting list control trial examined the impact of an internet-delivered CBT intervention, , amongst Irish university students ( = 137).

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Background: Depression is a high prevalence disorder, displaying high rates of lifetime incidence, early age onset, high chronicity, and role impairment. In Ireland 12-month prevalence of depression has been reported to be 10.3%.

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Background: Worldwide prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is considered high; in Europe lifetime prevalence has been estimated at 4.3 to 5.9%.

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