Christoph Lauber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1733991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Lauber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauber |
| SIGNATURE | LAUBER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Hospital of Zurich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Where are patients who have co-occurring mental and physical diseases located
BACKGROUND: Patients with a psychiatric illness have a higher prevalence of physical diseases and thus a higher morbidity and mortality. AIM: The main aim was to investigate where patients with co-occurring physical diseases and mental disorders (psychotic spectrum or mood) in the health and social service system are identified most frequently before admission into psychiatry. The second aim was to compare the differences in the treatment routes …
Physical illness in psychiatric inpatients
BACKGROUND: Physical comorbidities and substance use are commonly reported in patients with mental disorders. AIM: To examine somatic comorbidity in patients with substance use disorders (SUD) compared to patients with mental disorders but no SUD. METHODS: Lifetime prevalence data on mental and physical health status were collected from inpatients in 12 mental health care facilities in five different countries. Differences in somatic comorbidity …
Development and validation of an integrative scale to assess hope
BACKGROUND: Hope includes the dimensions of time, goals, control, relations and personal characteristics. Existing tools that measure it vary in length and psychometric properties and cover different parts of its overall concept. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to develop an instrument that integrates all relevant aspects of hope is concise, easy to use and shows good psychometric properties. DESIGN: Three pre-existing instruments (Miller Hope Scale…
The effectiveness of supported employment for people with severe mental illness
Stigma towards people with mental illness in developing countries in Asia
BACKGROUND: There is a wide range of literature on stigmatization and discrimination of people with mental illness. Most studies, however, derive from Western countries. This review aims at summarizing results from developing countries in Asia published between 1996-2006. METHOD: Medline search focusing on English-speaking literature. RESULTS: Comparable to Western countries, there is a widespread tendency to stigmatize and discriminate people wi…
Changes in Social Network Diversity and Perceived Social Support After Psychiatric Hospitalization
Background: There is a large empirical basis for the importance of social networks and support for people with a mental illness. However, only a few studies have eXamined the predictors, changes and correlations of these constructs within a longitudinal framework. Aim: To analyze changes in social network diversity as measured by the number of social roles and perceived social support over the course of three years after a psychiatric hospitaliza…
Predictors and course of vocational status, income, and quality of life in people with severe mental illness
Community Psychiatry
Background: Mental health authorities must know the public's attitude to community psychiatry when planning community mental health services. However, previous studies have only investigated the impact of demographic variables on the attitude to community psychiatry. Aim: To assess the influence of psychological and sociological parameters on the public opinion of community psychiatry in Switzerland. Method: Linear regression analyses of the resu…
Changing Times
We investigated changes in the proportion of firearm suicides in Western countries since the 1980s and the relation of these changes to the change in the proportion of households owning firearms. Several countries had an obvious decline in firearm suicides: Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Multilevel modeling of longitudinal data confirmed the effect of the proportion of households owning firearms. Legislation and regul…
Social support modifies perceived stigmatization in the first years of mental illness
Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals Toward People With Schizophrenia and Major Depression
Several studies reveal poor knowledge about mental illness in the general population and stigmatizing attitudes toward people with mental illness. However, it is unknown whether mental health professionals hold fewer stigmatizing attitudes than the general population. A survey was conducted of the attitudes of mental health professionals (n = 1073) and members of the public (n = 1737) toward mental illness and their specific reaction toward a per…
Family Burden During Exacerbation of Schizophrenia
Background/aims: Family members of people with schizophrenia are heavily burdened. Thus, we aimed at quantifying the amount of additional efforts during the two weeks before hospitalisation of acute exacerbating psychosis compared to the time before. Methods: By means of the semi-structured ‘Interview for Measuring the Burden on the Family' we interviewed relatives of people with schizophrenia. To quantify additional burden we asked how much time…
Mental health literacy in an educational elite – an online survey among university students
Among the educational elite, a wide variability in mental health literacy was found. Therefore, it's important for public mental health interventions to focus on the different recognition rates in depression and schizophrenia. Possibilities for contact must be arranged according to interest and activity (e.g., at work). In order to improve mental health literacy, finally, education and/or internship should be integrated in high school or apprenti…
Diversity and change in suicide seasonality over 125 years
Background: Recent research has corroborated the notion that seasonality in suicide is more heterogeneous and less consistent than postulated by former scholars. This work investigates the smoothing out of suicide seasonality in Switzerland between the late 19th and the end of the 20th century. It includes analyses by region and by suicide method. Methods: Monthly suicide frequencies in Switzerland are available for the period 1876–2000. Data on …
Factors Influencing Social Distance Toward People with Mental Illness
Determinants of Attitude to Volunteering in Psychiatry
Background: The United Nations proclaimed 2001 the “international Year of Volunteers”. Little is known about factors influencing the attitude to volunteering in psychiatry. However, knowledge about these factors is important as target groups to be addressed by an awareness and promotion campaign could be identified. Aims: To determine the influence of demographic, psychological and sociological factors on the attitude to volunteering in psychiatr…
Factors Influencing Social Distance Toward People with Mental Illness
Social support modifies perceived stigmatization in the first years of mental illness
Changing Times
We investigated changes in the proportion of firearm suicides in Western countries since the 1980s and the relation of these changes to the change in the proportion of households owning firearms. Several countries had an obvious decline in firearm suicides: Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Multilevel modeling of longitudinal data confirmed the effect of the proportion of households owning firearms. Legislation and regul…
Predictors and course of vocational status, income, and quality of life in people with severe mental illness
Determinants of Attitude to Volunteering in Psychiatry
Background: The United Nations proclaimed 2001 the “international Year of Volunteers”. Little is known about factors influencing the attitude to volunteering in psychiatry. However, knowledge about these factors is important as target groups to be addressed by an awareness and promotion campaign could be identified. Aims: To determine the influence of demographic, psychological and sociological factors on the attitude to volunteering in psychiatr…
Factors Influencing Social Distance Toward People with Mental Illness
Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals Toward People With Schizophrenia and Major Depression
Several studies reveal poor knowledge about mental illness in the general population and stigmatizing attitudes toward people with mental illness. However, it is unknown whether mental health professionals hold fewer stigmatizing attitudes than the general population. A survey was conducted of the attitudes of mental health professionals (n = 1073) and members of the public (n = 1737) toward mental illness and their specific reaction toward a per…
Family Burden During Exacerbation of Schizophrenia
Background/aims: Family members of people with schizophrenia are heavily burdened. Thus, we aimed at quantifying the amount of additional efforts during the two weeks before hospitalisation of acute exacerbating psychosis compared to the time before. Methods: By means of the semi-structured ‘Interview for Measuring the Burden on the Family' we interviewed relatives of people with schizophrenia. To quantify additional burden we asked how much time…
Mental health literacy in an educational elite – an online survey among university students
Among the educational elite, a wide variability in mental health literacy was found. Therefore, it's important for public mental health interventions to focus on the different recognition rates in depression and schizophrenia. Possibilities for contact must be arranged according to interest and activity (e.g., at work). In order to improve mental health literacy, finally, education and/or internship should be integrated in high school or apprenti…
Diversity and change in suicide seasonality over 125 years
Background: Recent research has corroborated the notion that seasonality in suicide is more heterogeneous and less consistent than postulated by former scholars. This work investigates the smoothing out of suicide seasonality in Switzerland between the late 19th and the end of the 20th century. It includes analyses by region and by suicide method. Methods: Monthly suicide frequencies in Switzerland are available for the period 1876–2000. Data on …
Community Psychiatry
Background: Mental health authorities must know the public's attitude to community psychiatry when planning community mental health services. However, previous studies have only investigated the impact of demographic variables on the attitude to community psychiatry. Aim: To assess the influence of psychological and sociological parameters on the public opinion of community psychiatry in Switzerland. Method: Linear regression analyses of the resu…
Changing Times
We investigated changes in the proportion of firearm suicides in Western countries since the 1980s and the relation of these changes to the change in the proportion of households owning firearms. Several countries had an obvious decline in firearm suicides: Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Multilevel modeling of longitudinal data confirmed the effect of the proportion of households owning firearms. Legislation and regul…
Social support modifies perceived stigmatization in the first years of mental illness
The effectiveness of supported employment for people with severe mental illness
Stigma towards people with mental illness in developing countries in Asia
BACKGROUND: There is a wide range of literature on stigmatization and discrimination of people with mental illness. Most studies, however, derive from Western countries. This review aims at summarizing results from developing countries in Asia published between 1996-2006. METHOD: Medline search focusing on English-speaking literature. RESULTS: Comparable to Western countries, there is a widespread tendency to stigmatize and discriminate people wi…
Changes in Social Network Diversity and Perceived Social Support After Psychiatric Hospitalization
Background: There is a large empirical basis for the importance of social networks and support for people with a mental illness. However, only a few studies have eXamined the predictors, changes and correlations of these constructs within a longitudinal framework. Aim: To analyze changes in social network diversity as measured by the number of social roles and perceived social support over the course of three years after a psychiatric hospitaliza…
Predictors and course of vocational status, income, and quality of life in people with severe mental illness
Development and validation of an integrative scale to assess hope
BACKGROUND: Hope includes the dimensions of time, goals, control, relations and personal characteristics. Existing tools that measure it vary in length and psychometric properties and cover different parts of its overall concept. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to develop an instrument that integrates all relevant aspects of hope is concise, easy to use and shows good psychometric properties. DESIGN: Three pre-existing instruments (Miller Hope Scale…
Physical illness in psychiatric inpatients
BACKGROUND: Physical comorbidities and substance use are commonly reported in patients with mental disorders. AIM: To examine somatic comorbidity in patients with substance use disorders (SUD) compared to patients with mental disorders but no SUD. METHODS: Lifetime prevalence data on mental and physical health status were collected from inpatients in 12 mental health care facilities in five different countries. Differences in somatic comorbidity …
Where are patients who have co-occurring mental and physical diseases located
BACKGROUND: Patients with a psychiatric illness have a higher prevalence of physical diseases and thus a higher morbidity and mortality. AIM: The main aim was to investigate where patients with co-occurring physical diseases and mental disorders (psychotic spectrum or mood) in the health and social service system are identified most frequently before admission into psychiatry. The second aim was to compare the differences in the treatment routes …
Medicine (15 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (11 works) · Mental health (10 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (9 works) · Mental illness (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Nursing (4 works)