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3328
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Silke Schmidt is affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Psychology, with considerable work in subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's publication record includes key topics such as Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Family and Disability Support Research, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.

Frequent publication venues for Silke Schmidt's research include Environmental Health Perspectives, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, BMC Public Health, Environmental Health Perspectives (Chinese), and UNC Libraries.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Silke Schmidt are:

  • Continuum beliefs and mental illness stigma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlation and intervention studies (2021), Psychological Medicine
  • Social Distancing and Stigma: Association Between Compliance With Behavioral Recommendations, Risk Perception, and Stigmatizing Attitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Fluid balance and outcome in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury (CENTER-TBI and OzENTER-TBI): a prospective, multicentre, comparative effectiveness study (2021), The Lancet Neurology
  • Ready, Willing and Able? An Investigation of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Help-Seeking for a Community Sample with Current Untreated Depressive Symptoms (2020), Prevention Science
  • Utilizing Health Behavior Change and Technology Acceptance Models to Predict the Adoption of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Cross-sectional Survey Study (2021), Journal of Medical Internet Research

Silke Schmidt has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Holger Muehlan
  • Samuel Tomczyk
  • Georg Schomerus
  • Thomas McLaren
  • Laura Altweck

In addition to journal publications, Silke Schmidt has contributed to book literature, including a publication with Peter Lang titled Narrative Change Management in American Studies published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research

    Andrew I R Maas;David K Menon;P David Adelson;Nada Andelic

  • Development of the WHOQOL-Old module

    Mick Power;Kathryn Quinn;Silke Schmidt

  • The EUROHIS-QOL 8-item index: psychometric results of a cross-cultural field study.

    Silke Schmidt;Holger Mühlan;Mick Power

  • 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

  • Case-mix, care pathways, and outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury in CENTER-TBI: a European prospective, multicentre, longitudinal, cohort study

    Ewout W. Steyerberg;Ewout W. Steyerberg;Eveline Wiegers;Charlie Sewalt;Andras Buki

  • The attitudes to ageing questionnaire (AAQ): development and psychometric properties

    K. Laidlaw;M. J. Power;S. Schmidt

  • Adult attachment and social support interact to reduce psychological but not cortisol responses to stress

    Beate Ditzen;Silke Schmidt;Bernhard Strauss;Urs Markus Nater;Urs Markus Nater

  • Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI): Scale Development and Metric Properties

    Nicole Von Steinbuchel;J T Lindsay Wilson;Henning Gibbons;Graeme Hawthorne

  • Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI): Scale Validity and Correlates of Quality of Life

    Nicole Von Steinbüchel;Lindsay Wilson;Henning Gibbons;Graeme Hawthorne

  • Attachment and coping with chronic disease.

    Silke Schmidt;Christof Nachtigall;Olivia Wuethrich-Martone;Bernhard Strauss

  • Assessing quality of life of children with chronic health conditions and disabilities: a European approach.

    Monika Bullinger;Silke Schmidt;Corinna Petersen

  • Stigma as a barrier to recognizing personal mental illness and seeking help: a prospective study among untreated persons with mental illness.

    Georg Schomerus;Susanne Stolzenburg;Simone Freitag;Sven Speerforck

  • Current issues in cross-cultural quality of life instrument development

    Silke Schmidt;Monika Bullinger

  • Field testing of a European quality of life instrument for children and adolescents with chronic conditions: the 37-item DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Module.

    Marie-Claude Simeoni;Silke Schmidt;Holger Muehlan;David Debensason

  • QOLIBRI Overall Scale: a brief index of health-related quality of life after traumatic brain injury

    Nicole Von Steinbuechel;Lindsay Wilson;Henning Gibbons;Holger Muehlan

  • Risk perception, experience, and objective risk: A cross-national study with European emergency survivors

    Daniela Knuth;Doris Kehl;Lynn M. Hulse;Silke Schmidt

  • Development and pilot-testing of a health-related quality of life chronic generic module for children and adolescents with chronic health conditions: a European perspective.

    Corinna Petersen;Silke Schmidt;Mick Power;Monika Bullinger

  • Coping with chronic disease from the perspective of children and adolescents--a conceptual framework and its implications for participation.

    S Schmidt;C Petersen;M Bullinger

  • Continuum beliefs and mental illness stigma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlation and intervention studies.

    Lina-Jolien Peter;Stephanie Schindler;Christian Sander;Silke Schmidt

  • Self and proxy rating of quality of life in adults with intellectual disabilities: Results from the DISQOL study

    Silke Schmidt;Mick Power;Ann Green;Ramona Lucas-Carrasco

  • The DISABKIDS generic quality of life instrument showed cross-cultural validity

    Silke Schmidt;David Debensason;Holger Mühlan;Corinna Petersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Monika Bullinger
Monika Bullinger Universität Hamburg
Georg Schomerus
Georg Schomerus Leipzig University
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Mick Power
Mick Power National University of Singapore
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Bernhard Strauss
Bernhard Strauss Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Alice Theadom
Alice Theadom Auckland University of Technology
Jens P. Dreier
Jens P. Dreier Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Guy B. Williams
Guy B. Williams University of Cambridge

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