Keywords

Eating Disorders; Epidemiologic Measurements; Epidemiology; Internet; Mental Health; Primary Prevention; Secondary Prevention

Research group(s)

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry including Eating Disorders
  Research Area: eating disorders and associated diseases
  Members:
  Tanja Auer
  Andreas Karwautz
  Michael Zeiler

Research interests

• Eating Disorders
• Adolescents
• Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders
• E-Mental Health
• Prevention
• Research methods

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

• Epidemiological Assessments
• Randomized-controlled clinical trials
• Quantitative and qualitative research

Selected publications

1. Zeiler, M. et al., 2016. Prevalence of Eating Disorder Risk and Associations with Health-related Quality of Life: Results from a Large School-based Population Screening. European Eating Disorders Review, 24(1), pp.9–18. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.2368.
2. Zeiler, M. et al., 2018. The Mental Health in Austrian Teenagers (MHAT) Study: design, methodology, description of study population. neuropsychiatrie, 32(3), pp.121–132. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40211-018-0273-2.
3. Jones Bell, M. et al., 2019. Healthy Teens @ School: Evaluating and disseminating transdiagnostic preventive interventions for eating disorders and obesity for adolescents in school settings. Internet Interventions, 16, pp.65–75. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2018.02.007.
4. Wagner, G. et al., 2017. Mental health problems in Austrian adolescents: a nationwide, two-stage epidemiological study applying DSM-5 criteria. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 26(12), pp.1483–1499. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-0999-6.
5. Philipp, J. et al., 2018. Prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems and subthreshold psychiatric disorders in Austrian adolescents and the need for prevention. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 53(12), pp.1325–1337. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1586-y.