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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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.
Alonso, J., Steven Heeringa, Michael Schoenbaum, Ronny Bruffaerts, Ronald C. Kessler, G. Vilagut, S. Chatterji, T. Bedirhan Üstün, et al. 2011. "Including information about co-morbidity in estimates of disease burden: results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys." Psychological medicine, 41(4): 873-886.
Alonso, J., David R. Williams, Steven Heeringa, Ronny Bruffaerts, Karolyn Scott, Ronald C. Kessler, M. Petukhova, G. Vilagut, et al. 2010. "Days out of role due to common physical and mental conditions: results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys." Molecular psychiatry, 16(12): 1234-1246.
Stein, D.J., David R. Williams, Ronny Bruffaerts, Karolyn Scott, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Ronald C. Kessler, W.T. Chiu, I. Hwang, et al. 2010. "Cross-national analysis of the associations between traumatic events and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys." PloS one, 5: e10574.
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