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Ronny Bruffaerts
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 336
Citations - 33622
Ronny Bruffaerts is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Population. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 308 publications receiving 26894 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronny Bruffaerts include University of California, Davis & Harvard University.
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Chronic physical conditions and their association with first onset of suicidal behavior in the world mental health surveys.
Kate M. Scott,Irving Hwang,W. T. Chiu,Ronald C. Kessler,Nancy A. Sampson,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Guilherme Borges,Ronny Bruffaerts,Ron de Graaf,Silvia Florescu,Akira Fukao,Josep Maria Haro,Chiyi Hu,Viviane Kovess,Daphna Levinson,Jose Posada-Villa,Paolo Scocco,Matthew K. Nock +18 more
TL;DR: The presence of physical conditions is a risk factor for suicidal behavior even in the absence of mental disorder, and physical conditions were especially predictive of suicidality if they occurred early in life.
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Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among First-Year College Students: Results From the WMH-ICS Project.
Philippe Mortier,Randy P. Auerbach,Jordi Alonso,Jason Bantjes,Corina Benjet,Pim Cuijpers,David Daniel Ebert,Jennifer Greif Green,Penelope Hasking,Matthew K. Nock,Siobhan O'Neill,Stephanie Pinder-Amaker,Nancy A. Sampson,Gemma Vilagut,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Ronny Bruffaerts,Ronald C. Kessler +16 more
TL;DR: The distribution of STB in first-year students is widespread, and relatively independent of socio-demographic risk profile, as well as cross-nationally consistent and modest in effect size.
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Associations of serious mental illness with earnings: results from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Daphna Levinson,Matthew D. Lakoma,Maria Petukhova,Michael Schoenbaum,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Guilherme Borges,Ronny Bruffaerts,Giovanni de Girolamo,Ron de Graaf,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Chiyi Hu,Aimee N. Karam,Norito Kawakami,Sing Lee,Jean Pierre Lepine,Mark Anthony Oakley Browne,Michail Okoliyski,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Maria Carmen Viana,David R. Williams,Ronald C. Kessler +23 more
TL;DR: The results of the WMH Surveys add to a growing body of evidence that mental disorders have high societal costs and decisions about healthcare resource allocation should take these costs into consideration.
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Barriers of mental health treatment utilization among first-year college students: First cross-national results from the WHO World Mental Health International College Student Initiative
David Daniel Ebert,Philippe Mortier,Fanny Kaehlke,Ronny Bruffaerts,Harald Baumeister,Randy P. Auerbach,Jordi Alonso,Gemma Vilagut,Kalina U. Martínez,Christine Lochner,Pim Cuijpers,Ann Marie Kuechler,Jennifer Greif Green,Penelope Hasking,Coral Lapsley,Nancy A. Sampson,Ronald C. Kessler +16 more
TL;DR: Although mental disorders and suicidal thoughts‐behaviors (suicidal thoughts and behaviors) are common among university students, the majority of students with these problems remain untreated.
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Functional disability of mental disorders and comparison with physical disorders: a study among the general population of six European countries
M A Buist-Bouwman,M A Buist-Bouwman,R. de Graaf,Wilma A. M. Vollebergh,Jordi Alonso,Ronny Bruffaerts,Johan Ormel +6 more
TL;DR: To examine the association of mental and physical disorders with multiple domains of functioning and compare the two, a large number of patients with multiple disorders are diagnosed with at least one of the two.