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Professor Carol Joinson
B.Sc., Ph.D.(Glas.)
Current positions
Professor of Developmental Psychology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
- Risk factors for the development of psychopathology in childhood and adolescence.
- Epidemiology of depression in childhood and adolescence with a focus on explaining why gender differences in depression emerge during adolescence.
- The role of individual factors (e.g. pubertal development, temperament) and family environmental factors (e.g. socioeconomic position, father absence, parenting) in determining risk for development of psychopathology.
- Risk factors for continence problems in children and adolescents with a focus on the role of psychological problems and stress.
- Psychosocial impacts of continence problems.
- Comorbidity between continence problems and depression/anxiety across the lifecourse.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Process evaluation of URApp: a digital intervention to support adherence to bladder training in paediatric continence clinics
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/03/2024 to 28/02/2025
MRC CiC - URApp: a smartphone app to support behaviour modification for the treatment of urinary incontinence in young people
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/05/2023 to 30/09/2023
Mental health and incontinence
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
05/02/2022 to 05/11/2024
Mental health and incontinence
Principal Investigator
Description
MRC funded study examining the bidirectional relationships between mental health problems and incontinence and the mechanisms that underlie these relationships.Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2021 to 30/06/2024
Beliefs, Behaviours and Health Research Programme
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The overall programme of research is aimed at understanding whether different aspects of beliefs and associated behaviours are associated with health and well-being. The primary data source for this research…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2021 to 31/08/2026
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
15/05/2024Adverse childhood experiences and lower urinary tract symptoms in adolescence: the mediating effect of inflammation
medRxiv
Association between maternal depression and lower urinary tract symptoms in their primary school-age daughters
Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing : official publication of The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society / WOCN
Examining the role of maternal religiosity in offspring mental health using latent class analysis in a UK prospective cohort study
Psychological Medicine
Maternal Religiosity and Adolescent Mental Health
Journal of Affective Disorders
Sleep duration, sleep problems and developmental trajectories of urinary incontinence
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry