Papoula Petri-Romão
psychology, global mental health, resilience
research projects
8 / Behavioural measure of appraisal style
2023-ongoing
Development of a lab-based taks that measures how we appraise, that is, evaluate stressors.
Kalisch Lab. Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research
7 / Resilience in vulnerable groups during the pandemi
2021-ongoing
As part of the EU Horizon RESPOND project, I am investigation resilience factors and resilient outcomes in vulnerable groups across France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Kalisch Lab. Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research
6 / IPD meta-analysis about resilience during the pandemic
2021-ongoing
An individual participant data meta-analysis of longitudinal datasets which collected data of roughly 30,000 participants. My analyses are focused on resilience.
Kalisch Lab. Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research
5 / Validation of positive appraisal style scales
2021-2022
Validation of the perceived Positive Appraisal Style Scale, content-focused and perceived Positive Appraisal Style Scale, process-focused. Both should be used to assess general tendencies in stressor appraisal in large scale studies.
Kalisch Lab. Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research
4 / Scottish Model for safe education (SMS-ED)
2020-2021
Together with parents and teachers we have designed a model to help schools and families prepare for school-closure during the COVID pandemic.
Prof Helen Minnis. University of Glasgow
3 / Social Distancing - how did families cope?
2020
Qualitative interviews with 43 vulnerable families across the UK during the national lockdown. There were 2 waves of interviews. My responsibilities were coding, analysis and dissemination of interviews.
Prof Helen Minnis. University of Glasgow
2 / Hallmarks of childhood abuse
2019-2020
A review of systemic reviews to understand the biological, social, psychological and genetic hallmarks of childhood abuse.
My responsibilities were coordinating the coding, rating and analysis of reviews as well as writing up the results.
Prof Helen Minnis. University of Glasgow
1 / Social Networks of children in care
2019
As part of my M.Sc. I conducted a systematic review of social relationships (quality and quantitiy) of young children in care. I also designed an exploratory study to interview children about their social worlds.
University of Glasgow
conferences & talks
Invited speaker: 8th International Resilience symposium
2023
Title: A stepped care programme to foster resilience: Outcomes and mechanisms
Invited speaker: Big data in psychology research
2023
Title: Retrospective Harmonisation of Mental Health and Resilience Data: A Federated Network of Covid-19 Cohorts with 40,000 participants (Co-RESPOND)
publications
for full list of publications visit my google scholar profile
2023
Papoula Petri-Romão", Lara M.C. Puhlmann", Gonzalo Martínez-Alés, Irene Martínez-Morata, Berta Moreno-Küstner, Eduardo Fernández-Jiménez, Irwin Hecker, Maria Melchior, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Marit Sijbrandij, Henrik Walter, Anke Witteveen, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, María-Fe Bravo-Ortiz, Raffael Kalisch, RobertoMediavilla
We operationalise resilience as the individual deviation to the normative stressor reactivity, in order to understand not just mental health symptoms, but to capture reactivity to adversity, of which healthcare workers experienced a lot during the pandemic. Using this outcome-based resilience we identify 2 important resilience factors that are actionable on the organisation level: support from colleagues and trust in the workplace. On an individual level self-perceived ability to bounce back after adversity was prospectively associated with actual stressor reactivity.
2023
Roberto Mediavilla, (...), Papoula Petri-Romão, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos on behalf of the RESPOND Consortium
Primary analyses of the stepped-care interventino programme comprised of the WHO interventions: Doing what matters (DWM) and Problem Management Plus (PM+).
We find that mental health symptoms indicated by PHQ-ADS are significantly reduced in the intervention group (baseline-adjusted difference 4.4, 95% CI 2.1 to 6.7; standardised effect size 0.8, 95% CI 0.4 to 1.2).
2023
Papoula Petri-Romão, Haakon Engen, Anna Rupanova, Lara Puhlmann, Matthias Zerban, Rebecca J. Neumann, Aliaksandr Malyshau, Kira F. Ahrens, Anita Schick4, Bianca Kollmann, Michèle Wessa, Henrik Walker, Michael M. Plichta, Andreas Reif, Andrea Chmitorz, Oliver Tuescher, Ulrike Basten, and Raffael Kalisch
We present two self-report scales that measure positive appraisal style, or the general tendency to evaluate adverse situations (stressors) in a positive light. The first scale asks about positive thinking processes people may employ when confronted with stressors, the second about positive results of these processes, that is, positive appraisals people may generate in such situations. The scales shall help test whether typically appraising stressors positively promotes resilience to the development of stress-related mental health problems.
2020
Lang, J., Kerr, D. M., Petri-Romão, P., McKee, T., Smith, H., Wilson, N., Zavrou, M., Shiels, P., Minnis, H.
From Abstract: "Based on the most commonly reported high-quality research findings we propose that the hallmarks of exposure to child maltreatment are: Increased risk of psychopathology; Increased risk of obesity; Increased risk of high- risk sexual behaviours, Increased risk of smoking; and Increased risk of child maltreatment in children with disabilities. Research gaps include a lack of focus on complexity and resilience. Little can be concluded about directions of causality or mechanisms. Adequately powered prospective studies are required to move the field forward."
my name
how to cite and pronounce my name:
Papoula Petri-Romão
Always cite my name as Petri-Romão, P.
I have two surnames, so no other version of my name is correct.
My first name (Papoula) is pronounced as if there was no 'u'. It should resemble the words 'granola' or 'cola'. In other words, it's like pah-POH-lah, not pah-pooh-lah (for example, like the word shampoo).
Petri is pronounced like the Petri dish and Romao is pronouned ro-MAO (it should rhyme with now).
Full Name: pah-POH-lah pe-tree ro-MAO
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