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Overview

George B. Ploubidis is a researcher affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple disciplines, predominantly within social sciences, medicine, and psychology. Their research outputs notably address issues related to health, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and public health.

Their recent publications cover diverse topics, often focused on health outcomes and disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key papers include:

  • Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Psychological Distress Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Adults in the United Kingdom Based on Coordinated Analyses of 11 Longitudinal Studies, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Changes in the behavioural determinants of health during the COVID-19 pandemic: gender, socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in five British cohort studies, 2021, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • Risk factors for long COVID: analyses of 10 longitudinal studies and electronic health records in the UK, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Missing at random assumption made more plausible: evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort, 2021, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Ploubidis frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, including:

  • Richard J. Silverwood
  • Praveetha Patalay
  • Nish Chaturvedi
  • Jane Maddock
  • Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

Their publications appear most often in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal for Population Data Science
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • BMJ Open

The primary fields of study represented in their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Within these fields, their focused subfields are:

  • Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The main research topics addressed by Ploubidis encompass:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Best Publications

  • When to Use Broader Internalising and Externalising Subscales Instead of the Hypothesised Five Subscales on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): Data from British Parents, Teachers and Children

    Anna Goodman;Donna L. Lamping;George B. Ploubidis

  • Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records

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  • Sexual function in Britain: findings from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3)

    Kirstin R Mitchell;Catherine H Mercer;George B Ploubidis;Kyle G Jones

  • Using genetic data to strengthen causal inference in observational research.

    Jean Baptiste Pingault;Jean Baptiste Pingault;Paul F. O’Reilly;Tabea Schoeler;George B. Ploubidis

  • Psychometric evaluation and predictive validity of Ryff's psychological well-being items in a UK birth cohort sample of women

    Rosemary A Abbott;George B Ploubidis;Felicia A Huppert;Diana Kuh

  • Psychological Distress Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Adults in the United Kingdom Based on Coordinated Analyses of 11 Longitudinal Studies

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  • A mediation approach to understanding socio-economic inequalities in maternal health-seeking behaviours in Egypt

    Lenka Benova;Oona M R Campbell;George B Ploubidis;George B Ploubidis

  • An Evaluation of the Precision of Measurement of Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Scales in a Population Sample

    Rosemary A. Abbott;George B. Ploubidis;Felicia A. Huppert;Diana Kuh

  • Quasi-experimental evidence on short- and long-term consequences of bullying victimization: A meta-analysis.

    Tabea Schoeler;Lauren Duncan;Charlotte M. Cecil;George B. Ploubidis

  • Trends in catastrophic health expenditure in India: 1993 to 2014.

    Anamika Pandey;George B Ploubidis;Lynda Clarke;Lalit Dandona

  • Climate change and climate variability: personal motivation for adaptation and mitigation

    Jan C Semenza;George B Ploubidis;Linda A George

  • Characterization of Autism in Young Children With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.

    Shafali S. Jeste;Mustafa Sahin;Patrick Bolton;George B. Ploubidis

  • A longitudinal typology of symptoms of depression and anxiety over the life course.

    Ian Colman;George B. Ploubidis;Michael E.J. Wadsworth;Peter B. Jones

  • Testing the association between the incidence of schizophrenia and social capital in an urban area.

    J B Kirkbride;Jane Boydell;G B Ploubidis;Craig Morgan

  • The relationship of impulsivity to response inhibition and decision-making in remitted patients with bipolar disorder.

    T. Christodoulou;M. Lewis;G.B. Ploubidis;S. Frangou

  • Mediation Analysis With Intermediate Confounding: Structural Equation Modeling Viewed Through the Causal Inference Lens

    Bianca L. De Stavola;Rhian M. Daniel;George B. Ploubidis;Nadia Micali

  • Adolescent eating disorder behaviours and cognitions: gender-specific effects of child, maternal and family risk factors

    Nadia Micali;B De Stavola;G Ploubidis;E Simonoff

  • The relationship between early personality and midlife psychological well-being: evidence from a UK birth cohort study

    Rosemary A. Abbott;Tim J. Croudace;George B. Ploubidis;Diana Kuh

  • Women's empowerment in agriculture and child nutritional status in rural Nepal.

    Kenda Cunningham;George B Ploubidis;Purnima Menon;Marie Ruel

  • Frequency and patterns of eating disorder symptoms in early adolescence.

    Nadia Micali;George Ploubidis;Bianca De Stavola;Emily Simonoff

  • Towards a clinical staging for bipolar disorder: Defining patient subtypes based on functional outcome

    María Reinares;Efstathios Papachristou;Philip Harvey;C. Mar Bonnín

  • A Systematic Literature Review of Studies Analyzing Inequalities in Health Expectancy among the Older Population

    Benedetta Pongiglione;Bianca L. De Stavola;George B. Ploubidis

  • Parental practices predict psychological well-being in midlife: life-course associations among women in the 1946 British birth cohort

    F. A. Huppert;R. A. Abbott;G. B. Ploubidis;M. Richards

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca Hardy
Rebecca Hardy University College London
Emily Grundy
Emily Grundy University of Essex
Kaye Wellings
Kaye Wellings London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London
Marcus Richards
Marcus Richards University College London
Ian Colman
Ian Colman University of Ottawa
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi University of Glasgow
Felicia A. Huppert
Felicia A. Huppert University of Sydney
Lenka Benova
Lenka Benova Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Jordana T. Bell
Jordana T. Bell King's College London

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