ORCID Profile
0000-0002-8549-6599
Current Organisations
Université de Montréal
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University Hospital of Lausanne
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University of Lausanne, Faculty of Biology and Medicine
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Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mental de Montréal (CRIUSMM)
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Université Paris Descartes
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Université de Genève
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Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching: Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching engagement and symptoms” questionnaires across nine languages
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
What are the barriers to access to mental healthcare and the primary needs of asylum seekers? A survey of mental health caregivers and primary care workers
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-09-2016
DOI: 10.1186/S12888-016-1048-6
Abstract: We aimed to assess the opinion of primary care workers, social workers, translators and mental health caregivers who work with asylum seekers about the latter's unmet needs and barriers to access to mental healthcare. We used a Likert scale to assess the opinion of 135 primary care workers (general practitioners, nurses, social workers and translators) and mental health caregivers about the proportion of asylum seekers with psychiatric disorders, their priority needs and their main barriers to mental health services. Insufficient access to adequate financial resources, poor housing and security conditions, access to employment, professional training and legal aid were considered as priority needs, as were access to dental and mental healthcare. The main barriers to access to mental healthcare for asylum seekers included a negative representation of psychiatry, fear of being stigmatized by their own community and poor information about existing psychiatric services. We found a good correlation between the needs reported by healthcare providers and those expressed by the asylum-seeking population in different studies. We discuss the need for greater mobility and accessibility to psychiatric services among this population.
Unveiling the relationships between cyberchondria and psychopathological symptoms
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Relationships between online health information seeking and psychopathology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Compulsive Health-Related Internet Use and Cyberchondria
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Date: 29-10-2021
DOI: 10.1159/000510922
Abstract: b i Background: /i /b Cyberchondria denotes excessive and repeated online health-related searches associated with an increase in health anxiety. Such searches persist in those with cyberchondria, despite the negative consequences, resembling a pattern of compulsive Internet use. b i Objectives: /i /b The aim of the present study was to assess compulsive health-related Internet use in relation to cyberchondria while controlling for related variables. b i Method: /i /b Adult participants ( i N /i = 749) were recruited from an online platform. They completed questionnaires assessing the severity of cyberchondria (via the Cyberchondria Severity Scale [CSS]), compulsive Internet use adapted for online health-related seeking (via the adapted Compulsive Internet Use Scale [CIUS]), and levels of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety, as well as depressive, somatic, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. A logistic regression analysis was carried out to identify predictors of scores above a cutoff value on the CIUS, indicating compulsive health-related Internet use. b i Results: /i /b The regression output showed that only the CSS total score and sex made a unique, statistically significant contribution to the model, leading to the correct classification of 78.6% of the cases. Of the CSS subscales, compulsion and distress were the most strongly associated with compulsive health-related Internet use. b i Conclusions: /i /b The finding that the adapted CIUS scores are associated with cyberchondria indicates that cyberchondria has a compulsive component, at least in terms of health-related Internet use. It also suggests that compulsive health-related Internet use persists despite the distress associated with this activity. Males may engage in cyberchondria more compulsively than females. These findings have implications for research and clinical practice.
Cyberchondria and its relationships with related constructs: a network analysis
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-05-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S11126-019-09640-5
Abstract: Cyberchondria denotes repeated online searches for health information that are associated with increasing levels of health anxiety. The aims of this study were to apply network analysis to investigate the extent to which cyberchondria is a distinct construct, ascertain which of the related constructs have the strongest relationships with cyberchondria and investigate whether some of the symptoms of cyberchondria are more central to the construct of cyberchondria. Questionnaires assessing the severity of cyberchondria, health anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms, intolerance of uncertainty, problematic Internet use, anxiety, depression and somatic symptoms were administered to 751 participants who searched for health information online during a previous 3-month period and were recruited from an online crowdsourcing platform. Network analyses were used to compute the networks, perform community detection tests and calculate centrality indices. Results suggest that cyberchondria is a relatively specific syndrome-like construct, distinct from all related constructs and consisting of interrelated symptoms. It has the strongest relationships with problematic Internet use and health anxiety. No symptom of cyberchondria emerged clearly as more central to the construct of cyberchondria. Future research should aim to deepen our understanding of cyberchondria and its links with psychopathology, especially its close relationship with problematic Internet use.
Positive and negative urgency as a single coherent construct: Evidence from a large‐scale network analysis in clinical and non‐clinical samples
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12655
Abstract: Negative and positive urgency are emotion‐related impulsivity traits that are thought to be transdiagnostic factors in psychopathology. However, it has recently been claimed that these two traits are closely related to each other and that considering them separately might have limited conceptual and methodological value. The present study aimed to examine whether positive and negative urgency constructs constitute separate impulsivity traits. In contrast to previous studies that have used latent variable approaches, this study employed an item‐based network analysis conducted in two different s les: a large s le of non‐clinical participants ( N = 18,568) and a s le of clinical participants with psychiatric disorders ( N = 385). The network analysis demonstrated that items denoting both positive and negative urgency cohere as a single cluster of items termed “general urgency” in both clinical and non‐clinical s les, thereby suggesting that differentiating positive and negative urgency as separate constructs is not necessary. These findings have important implications for the conceptualization and assessment of urgency and, more broadly, for future research on impulsivity, personality, and psychopathology.
Related Organisations
University Of Lausanne, Faculty Of Biology And Medicine
Location: Switzerland
Centre De Recherche De L'Institut Universitaire En Santé Mental De Montréal (CRIUSMM)
Location: Canada
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