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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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Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Matthew K. Nock,Irving Hwang,Nancy A. Sampson,Ronald C. Kessler,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Guilherme Borges,Evelyn J. Bromet,Ronny Bruffaerts,Giovanni de Girolamo,Ron de Graaf,Silvia Florescu,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Chiyi Hu,Yueqin Huang,Elie G. Karam,Norito Kawakami,Viviane Kovess,Daphna Levinson,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Toma Tomov,Maria Carmen Viana,David R. Williams +24 more
TL;DR: Using data from over 100,000 individuals in 21 countries participating in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys, Matthew Nock and colleagues investigate which mental health disorders increase the odds of experiencing suicidal thoughts and actual suicide attempts.
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Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys
Guilherme Borges,Matthew K. Nock,Josep Maria Haro Abad,Irving Hwang,Nancy A. Sampson,Jordi Alonso,Laura Helena Andrade,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Evelyn J. Bromet,Ronny Bruffaerts,Giovanni de Girolamo,Silvia Florescu,Oye Gureje,Chiyi Hu,Elie G. Karam,Viviane Kovess-Masfety,Sangkeun Lee,Daphna Levinson,María Elena Medina-Mora,Johan Ormel,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Toma Tomov,Hidenori Uda,Daniel R. Williams,Ronald C. Kessler +26 more
TL;DR: An analysis of a large cross-national epidemiologic survey database that estimates the 12-month prevalence of suicidal behaviors, identifies risk factors for suicide attempts, and combines these factors to create a risk index for 12- month suicide attempts separately for developed and developing countries finds risk indices can predict suicide attempts with fairly good accuracy.
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Disability and quality of life impact of mental disorders in Europe: results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) project.
Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Sebastian Bernert,Ronny Bruffaerts,Terry Brugha,H Bryson,G. de Girolamo,Ron de Graaf,Koen Demyttenaere,Isabelle Gasquet,Josep Maria Haro,Steven J. Katz,Ronald C. Kessler,V. Kovess,J P Lépine,Johan Ormel,G Polidori,L J Russo,Gemma Vilagut,Josue Almansa,S Arbabzadeh-Bouchez,J Autonell,M Bernal,M A Buist-Bouwman,M Codony,Antònia Domingo-Salvany,Montse Ferrer,S S Joo,M Martínez-Alonso,Herbert Matschinger,F Mazzi,Z Morgan,Pierluigi Morosini,C Palacín,B Romera,Nick Taub,Wilma A. M. Vollebergh,ESEMeD +37 more
TL;DR: This manuscript examines the impact of mental health state and specific mental and physical disorders on work role disability and quality of life in six European countries.
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Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries
Graham Thornicroft,Somnath Chatterji,Sara Evans-Lacko,Michael L. Gruber,Nancy A. Sampson,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Ali Al-Hamzawi,Jordi Alonso,Laura Helena Andrade,Guilherme Borges,Ronny Bruffaerts,Brendan Bunting,José Miguel Caldas de Almeida,Silvia Florescu,Giovanni de Girolamo,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Yanling He,Hristo Hinkov,Elie Karam,Elie Karam,Norito Kawakami,Sing Lee,Fernando Navarro-Mateu,Marina Piazza,Jose Posada-Villa,Yolanda Torres de Galvis,Ronald C. Kessler +27 more
TL;DR: Only a minority of participants with MDD received minimally adequate treatment: 1 in 5 people in high-income and 1 in 27 in low-/lower-middle-income countries.
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Mental disorders among persons with chronic back or neck pain: results from the World Mental Health Surveys.
Koen Demyttenaere,Ronny Bruffaerts,Sing Lee,Jose Posada-Villa,V. Kovess,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Daphna Levinson,Giovanni de Girolamo,Hideyuki Nakane,Zeina Mneimneh,Carmen Lara,Ron de Graaf,Kate M. Scott,Oye Gureje,Dan J. Stein,Josep Maria Haro,Evelyn J. Bromet,Ronald C. Kessler,Jordi Alonso,Michael Von Korff +19 more
TL;DR: Although prevalence rates of back/neck pain were generally lower than in previous reports, mental disorders were associated with chronic back/ neck pain and the strength of association was stronger for mood and anxiety disorders than for alcohol abuse/dependence.