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Elmar Brähler

Elmar Brähler

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Psychology

D-Index
111
Citations
54157
World Ranking
375
National Ranking
13

Medicine

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109
Citations
53160
World Ranking
5704
National Ranking
315

Overview

Elmar Brähler is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with a primary focus on clinical psychology and general health professions.

The scientist's recent work explores a wide variety of mental health topics, psychological well-being, and social factors influencing health. Some of the most cited papers include:

  • Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis, 2022, American Psychologist
  • Similarities and Differences of Mental Health in Women and Men: A Systematic Review of Findings in Three Large German Cohorts, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Update of the standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population, 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Prevalence and psychopathology of vegetarians and vegans - Results from a representative survey in Germany, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Noise annoyance predicts symptoms of depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance 5 years later. Findings from the Gutenberg Health Study, 2020, European Journal of Public Health

Frequent coauthors in their body of work include:

  • Manfred E. Beutel
  • Jörg M. Fegert
  • Markus Zenger
  • Mareike Ernst
  • Ana N. Tibubos

Publications appear regularly in journals and venues such as:

  • PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Scientific Reports
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Elmar Brähler's main fields of study and subfields highlight their interdisciplinary approach:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health
  • Social Psychology

The core topics of exploration within their research encompass:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Best Publications

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

    Bernd Löwe;Oliver Decker;Stefanie Müller;Elmar Brähler

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

    Bernd Löwe;Inka Wahl;Matthias Rose;Carsten Spitzer

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

    Manfred E. Beutel;Eva M. Klein;Elmar Brähler;Iris Reiner

  • Prediction of Institutionalization in the Elderly. A Systematic Review

    Melanie Luppa;Tobias Luck;Siegfried Weyerer;Hans-Helmut König

  • Depression and anxiety in labor migrants and refugees--a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Jutta Lindert;Ondine S. von Ehrenstein;Stefan Priebe;Andreas Mielck

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

    Anette Kersting;Elmar Brähler;Heide Glaesmer;Birgit Wagner

  • Standardization of the depression screener patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9) in the general population.

    Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent;Andreas Hinz;Elmar Brähler

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

    Eva M. Klein;Elmar Brähler;Michael Dreier;Leonard Reinecke

  • The somatic symptom scale-8 (SSS-8): a brief measure of somatic symptom burden.

    Benjamin Gierk;Sebastian Kohlmann;Kurt Kroenke;Kurt Kroenke;Kurt Kroenke;Lena Spangenberg

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

    Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent;Lorenz Berg;Manfred E. Beutel;Andreas Hinz

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

    Anja Mehnert;Elmar Brähler;Hermann Faller;Martin Härter

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

    A. Mehnert;T.J. Hartung;M. Friedrich;S. Vehling

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

    Winfried Rief;Ulrike Buhlmann;Sabine Wilhelm;Ada Borkenhagen

  • Fibromyalgia prevalence, somatic symptom reporting, and the dimensionality of polysymptomatic distress: results from a survey of the general population.

    Frederick Wolfe;Elmar Brähler;Andreas Hinz;Winfried Häuser

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

    Ulrike Buhlmann;Heide Glaesmer;Ricarda Mewes;Jeanne M. Fama

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

    Elmar Brähler;Holger Mühlan;Cornelia Albani;Silke Schmidt

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

    S. Singer;S. Singer;J. Das-Munshi;E. Brähler

  • Normative values for the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) in the general German population.

    Andreas Hinz;Elmar Brähler

  • Die Resilienzskala - Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung der psychischen Widerstandsfähigkeit als Personmerkmal.

    Jörg Schumacher;Karena Leppert;Thomas Gunzelrnann;Bernhard Strauß

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

    Andreas Hinz;Heide Glaesmer;Elmar Brähler;Elmar Brähler;Markus Löffler

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

    Heide Glaesmer;Winfried Rief;Alexandra Martin;Ricarda Mewes

Frequent Co-Authors

Heide Glaesmer
Heide Glaesmer Leipzig University
Andreas Hinz
Andreas Hinz Leipzig University
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Winfried Häuser
Winfried Häuser Technical University of Munich
Anja Hilbert
Anja Hilbert Leipzig University
Uwe Koch
Uwe Koch Universität Hamburg
Anja Mehnert
Anja Mehnert Leipzig University
Franz Petermann
Franz Petermann University of Bremen
Jörg M. Fegert
Jörg M. Fegert University of Ulm

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