Elmar Brähler

Research interests

Publications

• Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

  American Psychologist · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001005

• Social support in the general population: standardization of the Oslo social support scale (OSSS-3)

  BMC Psychology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0249-9

• Child maltreatment in Germany: prevalence rates in the general population

  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0185-0

• One in two cancer patients is significantly distressed: Prevalence and indicators of distress

  Psycho-Oncology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4464

• Loneliness in the general population: prevalence, determinants and relations to mental health

  BMC Psychiatry · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1262-x

• Sleep quality in the general population: psychometric properties of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, derived from a German community sample of 9284 people

  Sleep Medicine · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2016.03.008

• The risk of being depressed is significantly higher in cancer patients than in the general population: Prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms across major cancer types

  European Journal of Cancer · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2016.11.017

• The German version of the Perceived Stress Scale – psychometric characteristics in a representative German community sample

  BMC Psychiatry · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0875-9

• Psychometric evaluation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener GAD-7, based on a large German general population sample

  Journal of Affective Disorders · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.12.012

• The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

  BMC Public Health · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1983-z

• Four-Week Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Patients With Cancer Across Major Tumor Entities

  Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2014.56.0086

• The Somatic Symptom Scale–8 (SSS-8)

  JAMA Internal Medicine · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.12179

• Standardization of the depression screener Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in the general population

  General Hospital Psychiatry · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2013.04.006

• Fibromyalgia Prevalence, Somatic Symptom Reporting, and the Dimensionality of Polysymptomatic Distress: Results From a Survey of the General Population

  Arthritis Care & Research · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.21931

• Prevalence of complicated grief in a representative population-based sample

  Journal of Affective Disorders · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2010.11.032

• Normative values for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in the general German population

  Journal of Psychosomatic Research · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2011.01.005

• Die deutsche Version des Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) – psychometrische Eigenschaften in einer bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Stichprobe

  PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0031-1295495

• Psychometric properties and population‐based norms of the Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT‐R)

  British Journal of Health Psychology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8287.2011.02046.x

• Updates on the prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder: A population-based survey

  Psychiatry Research · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2009.05.002

• A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population

  Journal of Affective Disorders · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2009.06.019

• Prediction of institutionalization in the elderly. A systematic review

  Age and Ageing · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afp202

• Prevalence of mental health conditions in cancer patients in acute care—a meta-analysis

  Annals of Oncology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mdp515

• Depression and anxiety in labor migrants and refugees – A systematic review and meta-analysis

  Social Science & Medicine · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.04.032

• Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the General Population

  Medical Care · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1097/mlr.0b013e318160d093

• Teststatistische Prüfung und Normierung der deutschen Versionen des EUROHIS-QOL Lebensqualität-Index und des WHO-5 Wohlbefindens-Index

  Diagnostica · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924.53.2.83

• The prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder: a population-based survey

  Psychological Medicine · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291706007264

Current projects

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