
Ronny Bruffaerts
Associate Professor, Center for Public Health Psychiatry, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum - KU Leuven.
Ph.D., Medical Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Research Interests: Dr. Bruffaerts is a clinical and experimental psychologist with a PhD in Medical Sciences. His main research field is psychiatric epidemiology, with a research focus on prevalence, incidence, and persistence of mental disorders in large population-representative samples and cohorts. Other interests include use of services for and societal burden of mental disorders.
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Axinn, William G., Yang Zhang, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Stephanie A. Chardoul, Kate M. Scott, and Ronny Bruffaerts. 2020. "The Association between Marital Transitions and the Onset of Major Depressive Disorder in a South Asian General Population." Journal of Affective Disorders, 266.
Stokes, Cara M., David R. Williams, Ronny Bruffaerts, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Ronald C. Kessler, Ronald C. Kessler, et al. 2020. "Pre-marital predictors of marital violence in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys." Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 55: 393-405.
de Vries, Ymkje Anna, David R. Williams, Ronny Bruffaerts, Ronny Bruffaerts, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Ronald C. Kessler, et al. 2019. "Childhood generalized specific phobia as an early marker of internalizing psychopathology across the lifespan: results from the World Mental Health Surveys." BMC Medicine, 17(1): 101.
Mortier, Philippe, William G. Axinn, Ronny Bruffaerts, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Ronald C. Kessler, Randy P. Auerbach, Jordi Alonso, Pim Cuijpers, et al. 2018. "Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers: results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys." Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 53(3): 279-288.
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