Mental wellbeing in the German old age population largely unaltered during COVID-19 lockdown: results of a representative survey

S Röhr, U Reininghaus, SG Riedel-Heller - BMC geriatrics, 2020 - Springer
Background Older individuals are at increased risk of a severe and lethal course of COVID-
19. They have typically been advised to practice particularly restrictive social distancing …

Social isolation and loneliness during COVID-19 lockdown: Associations with depressive symptoms in the German old-age population

F Müller, S Röhr, U Reininghaus… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic increase the risk of social isolation and
loneliness, which may affect mental wellbeing. Therefore, we aimed to investigate …

Psychometric analysis of the brief symptom inventory 18 (BSI-18) in a representative German sample

GH Franke, S Jaeger, H Glaesmer, C Barkmann… - BMC medical research …, 2017 - Springer
Background The BSI-18 contains the three six-item scales somatization, depression, and
anxiety as well as the Global Severity Index (GSI), including all 18 items. The BSI-18 is the …

Differential and shared effects of psychological skills training and mindfulness training on performance-relevant psychological factors in sport: a randomized controlled …

P Röthlin, S Horvath, S Trösch, M Holtforth, D Birrer - BMC psychology, 2020 - Springer
Background Mental training intends to support athletes in mastering challenges in sport. The
aim of our study was to investigate the differential and shared effects of psychological skills …

[HTML][HTML] Validity of chatbot use for mental health assessment: experimental study

A Schick, J Feine, S Morana, A Maedche… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2022 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background Mental disorders in adolescence and young adulthood are major public health
concerns. Digital tools such as text-based conversational agents (ie, chatbots) are a …

Effects of internet-based stress management on acute cortisol stress reactivity: Preliminary evidence using the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G)

G Domes, T Stächele, B von Dawans… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of face-to-face stress management
programs in reducing psychological and endocrine responses to acute psychosocial stress …

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and residual symptoms after cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) …

AK Külz, S Landmann, B Cludius, N Rose… - European archives of …, 2019 - Springer
Up to one-third of individuals with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) do not benefit from
evidence-based psychotherapy. We examined the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive …

Psychological skills training and a mindfulness-based intervention to enhance functional athletic performance: design of a randomized controlled trial using …

P Röthlin, D Birrer, S Horvath, M Grosse Holtforth - BMC psychology, 2016 - Springer
Background Struggling to deliver performance in competitions is one of the main reasons
why athletes seek the advice of sport psychologists. Psychologists apply a variety of …

Childhood trauma, personality, and substance use disorder: The development of a neuropsychoanalytic addiction model

J Fuchshuber, HF Unterrainer - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background While traditional psychoanalysis has been criticized as insufficient for the
treatment of substance use disorder (SUD), recent progress in the field of …

A longitudinal study on the COVID-19 pandemic and its divergent effects on social participation and mental health across different study groups with and without …

E Mergel, M Schützwohl - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2021 - Springer
Purpose With the rapid spread of COVID-19 and the restrictions imposed in many parts of
the world, there is growing concern about its impact on mental health. This longitudinal study …