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Erik Schouten is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands, with a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine. Their scholarly output includes contributions to subfields such as Oncology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Cervical Cancer and HPV Research, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, and Global Maternal and Child Health.

Publications by Erik Schouten have appeared in various academic journals. Frequent venues include:

  • Global Public Health
  • BMC Cancer
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Cancers

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Schouten include:

  • Breast and cervical cancer screening services in Malawi: a systematic review, 2020, BMC Cancer
  • Early post-partum viremia predicts long-term non-suppression of viral load in HIV-positive women on ART in Malawi: Implications for the elimination of infant transmission, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Implications of HIV treatment policies on the health workforce in rural Malawi and Tanzania between 2013 and 2017: Evidence from the SHAPE-UTT study, 2020, Global Public Health
  • Prevention of cervical cancer through two HPV-based screen-and-treat implementation models in Malawi: protocol for a cluster randomized feasibility trial, 2021, Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • Assessing community health workers' time allocation for a cervical cancer screening and treatment intervention in Malawi: a time and motion study, 2022, BMC Health Services Research

Erik Schouten has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Chiara Pittalis, Jennifer S. Smith, Luis Gadama, Lameck Chinula, and Jennifer H. Tang. Each of these co-authors has multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The influence of emotion-focused rumination and distraction on depressive symptoms in non-clinical youth: a meta-analytic review.

    Lea Rood;Jeffrey Roelofs;Susan M. Bögels;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Treatment expectancy and credibility are associated with the outcome of both physical and cognitive-behavioral treatment in chronic low back pain.

    Rob J. E. M. Smeets;Saskia Beelen;Mariëlle E. J. B. Goossens;Erik G. W. Schouten

  • Reliability and validity of the short Schema Mode Inventory (SMI).

    Jill Lobbestael;Michiel van Vreeswijk;Philip Spinhoven;Erik Schouten

  • Behavioral Inhibition as a Risk Factor for the Development of Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Longitudinal Study

    Peter Muris;Anna M. L. van Brakel;Arnoud Arntz;Erik Schouten

  • Psychometric evaluation of the Dutch version of the Aggression Questionnaire

    Cor Meesters;Peter Muris;Hans Bosma;Erik Schouten

  • Fear of movement/(re)injury predicting chronic disabling low back pain: a prospective inception cohort study.

    Ilse E J Swinkels-Meewisse;Jeffrey Roelofs;Erik G W Schouten;André L M Verbeek

  • Anxiety sensitivity in adolescents: factor structure and relationships to trait anxiety and symptoms of anxiety disorders and depression.

    P.E.H.M. Muris;H.G. Schmidt;H.L.G.J. Merckelbach;E.G.W. Schouten

  • Peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic stress after pregnancy loss: A prospective study.

    Iris M. Engelhard;Marcel A. van den Hout;Merel Kindt;Arnoud Arntz

  • Pain‐related fear in low back pain: A prospective study in the general population

    Maaike Leeuw;Ruud M.A. Houben;Rudy Severeijns;H. Susan J. Picavet

  • A brief questionnaire of DSM-IV-defined anxiety and depression symptoms among children

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Erik Schouten

  • Vital exhaustion as risk indicator for myocardial infarction in women.

    A. Appels;P.R.J. Falger;E.G.W. Schouten

  • Validation of the surgical fear questionnaire in adult patients waiting for elective surgery.

    Maurice Theunissen;Madelon L. Peters;Erik G. W. Schouten;Audrey A. A. Fiddelers

  • The Borderline Personality Disorder Severity Index-IV: Psychometric evaluation and dimensional structure.

    Josephine H. Giesen-Bloo;Lieven M. Wachters;Erik Schouten;Arnoud Arntz

  • The role of evaluative learning and disgust sensitivity in the etiology and treatment of spider phobia

    Harald Merckelbach;Peter J de Jong;Arnoud Arntz;Erik Schouten

  • Beliefs in personality disorders: a test with the Personality Disorder Belief Questionnaire

    Arnoud Arntz;Laura Dreessen;Erik Schouten;Anoek Weertman

  • Threat perception abnormalities in children: the role of anxiety disorders symptoms, chronic anxiety, and state anxiety.

    Peter Muris;Ron Rapee;Cor Meesters;Erik Schouten

  • Effects of Perceived Control on the Relationship Between Perceived Parental Rearing Behaviors and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Nonclinical Preadolescents

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Erik Schouten;Elske Hoge

  • Optimism, Motivational Coping and Well-being: Evidence Supporting the Importance of Flexible Goal Adjustment

    Marjolein Hanssen;Linda Vancleef;Johannes Vlaeyen;Johannes Vlaeyen;A.F. Hayes

  • Current posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular disease risk factors in Dutch Resistance veterans from World War II.

    P. R. J. Falger;W. Op Den Velde;J. E. Hovens;E. G. W. Schouten

  • The Disgust Scale-R: A valid and reliable index to investigate separate disgust domains?

    Mark van Overveld;Peter J. de Jong;Madelon L. Peters;Erik Schouten

  • Shorter communication Anxiety sensitivity in adolescents: factor structure and relationships to trait anxiety and symptoms of anxiety disorders and depression

    Peter Muris;Henk Schmidt;Harald Merckelbach;Erik Schouten

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Muris
Peter Muris Maastricht University
Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Cor Meesters
Cor Meesters Maastricht University
Marcel A. van den Hout
Marcel A. van den Hout Utrecht University
Madelon L. Peters
Madelon L. Peters Maastricht University
Jeffrey Roelofs
Jeffrey Roelofs Maastricht University
Merel Kindt
Merel Kindt University of Amsterdam
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen

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