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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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Embarrassment When Illness Strikes A Close Relative: A World Mental Health Survey Consortium Multi-Site Study
Brian K. Ahmedani,Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak,Ronald C. Kessler,R. de Graaf,Jordi Alonso,Ronny Bruffaerts,Zahari Zarkov,Maria Carmen Viana,Y. Huang,Chiyi Hu,Jose Posada-Villa,J P Lépine,Matthias C. Angermeyer,G. de Girolamo,A. N. Karam,M. E. Medina-Mora,Oye Gureje,Finola Ferry,Rajesh Sagar,James C. Anthony +19 more
TL;DR: The pattern of evidence from this research is consistent with conceptual models for interventions that target individual- and family-level stigma-related feelings of embarrassment as possible obstacles to effective early intervention and treatment for an ADMC.
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Associations between DSM-IV mental disorders and subsequent self-reported diagnosis of cancer
Siobhan O'Neill,J. Posada-Villa,María Elena Medina-Mora,Ali Obaid Al-Hamzawi,M. Piazza,Hisateru Tachimori,Chiyi Hu,Carmen C.W. Lim,Ronny Bruffaerts,Jean Pierre Lepine,Herbert Matschinger,Giovanni de Girolamo,Peter de Jonge,Jordi Alonso,José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida,Silvia Florescu,Andrzej Kiejna,Daphna Levinson,Ronald C. Kessler,Kate M. Scott +19 more
TL;DR: The magnitude of the associations between mental disorders and a self-reported diagnosis of cancer is reported and information about the relevance of comorbidity, gender and the impact at different stages of life is provided.
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Binge eating and purging in first-year college students: Prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity, and academic performance.
Riccardo Serra,Glenn Kiekens,Johan Vanderlinden,Elske Vrieze,Randy P. Auerbach,Corina Benjet,Laurence Claes,Laurence Claes,Pim Cuijpers,Koen Demyttenaere,David Daniel Ebert,Lorenzo Tarsitani,Jennifer Greif Green,Ronald C. Kessler,Matthew K. Nock,Phillippe Mortier,Ronny Bruffaerts,Ronny Bruffaerts +17 more
TL;DR: BPB (especially binge eating) are relatively common and associated with mental health problems, comparatively low academic performance, and higher risk of academic failure among college first-year students.
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Predicting community tenure in patients with recurrent utilization of a psychiatric emergency service
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the differential effect of patient and health system characteristics on the CT of patients with a previous referral to a psychiatric emergency room (PER) and found that short CT was highly influenced by aftercare arrangements and not by clinical characteristics.
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Mental disorders in Spanish university students: Prevalence, age-of-onset, severe role impairment and mental health treatment.
Laura Ballester,Itxaso Alayo,Gemma Vilagut,José Almenara,Ana Isabel Cebrià,Enrique Echeburúa,Andrea Gabilondo,Margalida Gili,Carolina Lagares,José A. Piqueras,Miquel Roca,Victoria Soto-Sanz,Maria Jesús Blasco,Pere Castellví,Philippe Mortier,Ronny Bruffaerts,Randy P. Auerbach,Matthew K. Nock,Ronald C. Kessler,Alonso Jordi +19 more
TL;DR: One third of Spanish university students report a common mental disorder in the past year, and one third of those report severe role impairment, as well as associated role impairment and mental health treatment use.