Franziska Geiser
Biographic Data
| ID | 123755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franziska Geiser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franziska |
| FAMILY NAME | Geiser |
| SIGNATURE | GEISER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Hospital Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4212-9692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fatherhood among healthcare workers
Background: The increased mental distress among healthcare workers (HCW) during the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented. Frontline research has rarely focused on fathers among HCW. This web-based multi-center study aimed to evaluate work-family conflict (WFC) among HCW fathers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: = 188 fathers who participated at two or more time points was analyzed separately. The impact of workload, exhaustion, fear, m…
The impact of informal caregiving on the mental health of health care workers during the Covid-19 pandemic—cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the Voice study
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic increased psychological distress among health care workers (HCWs). Those with informal caregiving responsibilities (ICs) may be especially vulnerable, but data remain limited. Methods: In a multicenter online survey conducted across four time points (T1-T4: 2020-2022) within the German healthcare system, HCWs with ICs were compared to those without (comparison group, CG). Psychological distress was assessed using…
Long-term effectiveness of inpatient and day hospital treatment in departments of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Germany
https://drks.de/search/de/trial/DRKS00016412 RKS00016412, identifier DRKS00016412
Identification and characteristics of distressed patients with coronary heart disease and insufficiently controlled medical risk factors
German Clinical Trials Register, https://drks.de/search/de/trial/DRKS00020824, identifier DRKS00020824
Validation of the Ambivalence and Uncertainty Scale
Background : This study aimed to validate the Ambivalence and Uncertainty Scale (AUS), developed to measure dispositional ambivalence, ambivalence intolerance, and decision-making difficulties, particularly among healthcare professionals during high-stress situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Method : Cross-sectional data from 1240 German healthcare professionals were analyzed. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was employed to evaluate the s…
We are all in the same boat’
Based on the qualitative and subsequential quantitative analysis, several factors for imageries for the COVID-19 pandemic were identified that have been used in the literature. Agreement with imageries is mixed, as is the assessment of how helpful they are
Spirituality and anxiety in pastoral care workers and physicians in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Our results point to the significant role of sense of coherence as a protective factor against anxiety and highlight the complexity of the relationship among spirituality, transpersonal trust, and anxiety
The mental health of first- and second-generation migrant vs. native healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenging working conditions of healthcare workers (HCWs) in many regions. A considerable proportion of HCWs in Germany are migrants facing additional migration-related stressors. The aim of this cross-sectional web-based survey was to examine depressive and generalized anxiety symptoms among migrant and native HCWs in Germany during the pandemic. We compared 780 migrant (first- and second-generation) HCWs …
“Flying over the crisis”
Background/Aim: Metaphors on theoretical concepts may be congruent or divergent from their explicit definitions. We carried out a secondary qualitative analysis on metaphors of members of an interdisciplinary research group on resilience and investigated: (A) Which metaphors do experts in different disciplines use to describe people showing resilience? (B) Do these (implicit) metaphors support the (explicit) theses of the research group on resili…
Depressive and anxiety symptoms in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic among physicians in hospitals
The study was registered on ClinicalTrials (DRKS-ID: DRKS00021268) on 9.4.2020
The multicenter effectiveness study of inpatient and day hospital treatment in departments of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Germany
https://drks.de/search/de/trial/DRKS00016412, identifier: DRKS00016412
How shared is decision‐making in multidisciplinary tumour conferences with patient participation? An observational study
BACKGROUND: In some breast and gynaecologic cancer centres in Germany, patients participate in their own case discussion in multidisciplinary tumour conferences (MTCs), where treatment recommendations are discussed and finalized. However, the extent to which patients in MTCs are involved in decision-making on treatment recommendations remains largely unexplored. Hence, this study investigates how recommendations are communicated to patients and t…
Sick Leave and Intention to Quit the Job among Nursing Staff in German Hospitals during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alarmingly, many nurses intend to quit working in healthcare. Perceived reward seems to buffer both sick leave and turnover intention. Enhancing protection from COVID-19 and reducing workload might also prevent sick leave. Depression prevention, improved change management and support of part-time workers could contribute to reducing turnover intention among nurses
Individual Stress Burden and Mental Health in Health Care Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic generated a significant burden on the German health care system, affecting the mental health of health care workers (HCW) in particular. Resilience may serve as an essential protective factor for individuals' well-being. Objective: Our objective was to identify demographic and work-related correlates of individual resilience and to investigate the association between pandemic-related stress, resilience and ment…
Correlates and Predictors of PTSD Symptoms Among Healthcare Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to ongoing challenges for healthcare systems across the world. Previous research has provided evidence for an increased prevalence of depression and anxiety as well as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In Germany, however, only scarce data on correlates and predictors for PTSD symptomatology in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among healthcare workers (HCW) are available. Methods: This research i…
Psychosocial Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Workers and Initial Areas of Action for Intervention and Prevention—The egePan/Voice Study
Retrospectively, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in stress among healthcare workers. Problem areas have different focuses with regard to different living situations, environmental conditions and professions. In order to lay the best basis for healthy and efficient work, it seems necessary to take measures especially tailored to the needs of different groups of healthcare workers
Safety Performance of Healthcare Professionals
Improving patient safety and reducing occupational accidents are two of the main challenges in healthcare. Instruments to measure safety performance and occupational safety are rare. This study aimed to prepare and validate a German version of the adapted workplace health and safety instrument to assess the safety performance of healthcare professionals. Overall, 168 healthcare professionals participated in this explorative cross-sectional study.…
Social Support and Optimism as Protective Factors for Mental Health among 7765 Healthcare Workers in Germany during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Psychosocial resources such as social support and optimism appear to contribute to successful coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and should be considered in future studies
Measuring Covid-19 Related Health Literacy in Healthcare Professionals—Psychometric Evaluation of the HL-COV-HP Instrument
The HL-COV-HP is a reliable, valid, and feasible instrument to assess the COVID-19 related health literacy in healthcare professionals. It can be used in hospitals or other healt hcare settings to assess the motivation and ability of healthcare professionals to find, understand, evaluate, and use COVID-19 information
Evidence for Attenuated Affective Processing in Obesity
Attenuated affective processing is hypothesized to play a role in the development and maintenance of obesity. Using an affective priming task measuring automatic affective processing of verbal stimuli, a group of 30 obese participants in a weight-loss program at the Psychosomatic University Clinic Bonn (M age = 48.3, SD = 10.7) was compared with a group of 25 participants of normal weight (M age = 43.6, SD = 12.5). A smaller affective priming eff…
Patients with obesity show reduced memory for others’ body shape
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Explanatory Models of Illness in Schizophrenic Patients in Jordan and Germany
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic and Relaxometric Determination of Bone Marrow Changes in Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess and quantify bone marrow changes in patients with anorexia nervosa using 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy and relaxometry. METHODS: The bone marrow fat fraction and the longitudinal and transverse relaxation times (T1 and T2, respectively) of water were measured in the lumbar and femoral marrow of 20 patients with anorexia nervosa and 19 healthy control subjects. RESULTS: Patients with anorex…
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic and Relaxometric Determination of Bone Marrow Changes in Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess and quantify bone marrow changes in patients with anorexia nervosa using 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy and relaxometry. METHODS: The bone marrow fat fraction and the longitudinal and transverse relaxation times (T1 and T2, respectively) of water were measured in the lumbar and femoral marrow of 20 patients with anorexia nervosa and 19 healthy control subjects. RESULTS: Patients with anorex…
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Explanatory Models of Illness in Schizophrenic Patients in Jordan and Germany
Evidence for Attenuated Affective Processing in Obesity
Attenuated affective processing is hypothesized to play a role in the development and maintenance of obesity. Using an affective priming task measuring automatic affective processing of verbal stimuli, a group of 30 obese participants in a weight-loss program at the Psychosomatic University Clinic Bonn (M age = 48.3, SD = 10.7) was compared with a group of 25 participants of normal weight (M age = 43.6, SD = 12.5). A smaller affective priming eff…
Patients with obesity show reduced memory for others’ body shape
Correlates and Predictors of PTSD Symptoms Among Healthcare Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to ongoing challenges for healthcare systems across the world. Previous research has provided evidence for an increased prevalence of depression and anxiety as well as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In Germany, however, only scarce data on correlates and predictors for PTSD symptomatology in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among healthcare workers (HCW) are available. Methods: This research i…
Psychosocial Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Workers and Initial Areas of Action for Intervention and Prevention—The egePan/Voice Study
Retrospectively, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in stress among healthcare workers. Problem areas have different focuses with regard to different living situations, environmental conditions and professions. In order to lay the best basis for healthy and efficient work, it seems necessary to take measures especially tailored to the needs of different groups of healthcare workers
Safety Performance of Healthcare Professionals
Improving patient safety and reducing occupational accidents are two of the main challenges in healthcare. Instruments to measure safety performance and occupational safety are rare. This study aimed to prepare and validate a German version of the adapted workplace health and safety instrument to assess the safety performance of healthcare professionals. Overall, 168 healthcare professionals participated in this explorative cross-sectional study.…
Social Support and Optimism as Protective Factors for Mental Health among 7765 Healthcare Workers in Germany during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Psychosocial resources such as social support and optimism appear to contribute to successful coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and should be considered in future studies
Measuring Covid-19 Related Health Literacy in Healthcare Professionals—Psychometric Evaluation of the HL-COV-HP Instrument
The HL-COV-HP is a reliable, valid, and feasible instrument to assess the COVID-19 related health literacy in healthcare professionals. It can be used in hospitals or other healt hcare settings to assess the motivation and ability of healthcare professionals to find, understand, evaluate, and use COVID-19 information
How shared is decision‐making in multidisciplinary tumour conferences with patient participation? An observational study
BACKGROUND: In some breast and gynaecologic cancer centres in Germany, patients participate in their own case discussion in multidisciplinary tumour conferences (MTCs), where treatment recommendations are discussed and finalized. However, the extent to which patients in MTCs are involved in decision-making on treatment recommendations remains largely unexplored. Hence, this study investigates how recommendations are communicated to patients and t…
Sick Leave and Intention to Quit the Job among Nursing Staff in German Hospitals during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alarmingly, many nurses intend to quit working in healthcare. Perceived reward seems to buffer both sick leave and turnover intention. Enhancing protection from COVID-19 and reducing workload might also prevent sick leave. Depression prevention, improved change management and support of part-time workers could contribute to reducing turnover intention among nurses
Individual Stress Burden and Mental Health in Health Care Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic generated a significant burden on the German health care system, affecting the mental health of health care workers (HCW) in particular. Resilience may serve as an essential protective factor for individuals' well-being. Objective: Our objective was to identify demographic and work-related correlates of individual resilience and to investigate the association between pandemic-related stress, resilience and ment…
“Flying over the crisis”
Background/Aim: Metaphors on theoretical concepts may be congruent or divergent from their explicit definitions. We carried out a secondary qualitative analysis on metaphors of members of an interdisciplinary research group on resilience and investigated: (A) Which metaphors do experts in different disciplines use to describe people showing resilience? (B) Do these (implicit) metaphors support the (explicit) theses of the research group on resili…
Depressive and anxiety symptoms in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic among physicians in hospitals
The study was registered on ClinicalTrials (DRKS-ID: DRKS00021268) on 9.4.2020
The multicenter effectiveness study of inpatient and day hospital treatment in departments of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Germany
https://drks.de/search/de/trial/DRKS00016412, identifier: DRKS00016412
We are all in the same boat’
Based on the qualitative and subsequential quantitative analysis, several factors for imageries for the COVID-19 pandemic were identified that have been used in the literature. Agreement with imageries is mixed, as is the assessment of how helpful they are
Spirituality and anxiety in pastoral care workers and physicians in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Our results point to the significant role of sense of coherence as a protective factor against anxiety and highlight the complexity of the relationship among spirituality, transpersonal trust, and anxiety
The mental health of first- and second-generation migrant vs. native healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the challenging working conditions of healthcare workers (HCWs) in many regions. A considerable proportion of HCWs in Germany are migrants facing additional migration-related stressors. The aim of this cross-sectional web-based survey was to examine depressive and generalized anxiety symptoms among migrant and native HCWs in Germany during the pandemic. We compared 780 migrant (first- and second-generation) HCWs …
The impact of informal caregiving on the mental health of health care workers during the Covid-19 pandemic—cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the Voice study
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic increased psychological distress among health care workers (HCWs). Those with informal caregiving responsibilities (ICs) may be especially vulnerable, but data remain limited. Methods: In a multicenter online survey conducted across four time points (T1-T4: 2020-2022) within the German healthcare system, HCWs with ICs were compared to those without (comparison group, CG). Psychological distress was assessed using…
Long-term effectiveness of inpatient and day hospital treatment in departments of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Germany
https://drks.de/search/de/trial/DRKS00016412 RKS00016412, identifier DRKS00016412
Identification and characteristics of distressed patients with coronary heart disease and insufficiently controlled medical risk factors
German Clinical Trials Register, https://drks.de/search/de/trial/DRKS00020824, identifier DRKS00020824
Validation of the Ambivalence and Uncertainty Scale
Background : This study aimed to validate the Ambivalence and Uncertainty Scale (AUS), developed to measure dispositional ambivalence, ambivalence intolerance, and decision-making difficulties, particularly among healthcare professionals during high-stress situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Method : Cross-sectional data from 1240 German healthcare professionals were analyzed. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was employed to evaluate the s…
Fatherhood among healthcare workers
Background: The increased mental distress among healthcare workers (HCW) during the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented. Frontline research has rarely focused on fathers among HCW. This web-based multi-center study aimed to evaluate work-family conflict (WFC) among HCW fathers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: = 188 fathers who participated at two or more time points was analyzed separately. The impact of workload, exhaustion, fear, m…
Medicine (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Health care (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (9 works) · Pandemic (9 works) · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (8 works)