Professorship for Health Psychology and Applied Biological Psychology

Organisational unit: Professoship

Main research areas

The department conducts research on mental health. In doing so, we focus on the health challenges that the changes in the world of work bring for working people and that can be a cause of chronic stress. We see the digitalisation of workplace health promotion, prevention or therapy as an opportunity to open up contemporary approaches to health promotion and improve care. Therefore, we develop and investigate online trainings and apps for health promotion. At the interface of health psychology, clinical psychology, occupational psychology and computer science, we work across disciplinary boundaries on the young research field of Occupational eMental Health.

  1. Published

    Effectiveness of a Guided Internet- and Mobile-Based Intervention for Patients with Chronic Back Pain and Depression (WARD-BP): A Multicenter, Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial

    Baumeister, H., Paganini, S., Sander, L. B., Lin, J., Schlicker, S., Terhorst, Y., Moshagen, M., Bengel, J., Lehr, D. & Ebert, D. D., 2021, In: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 90, 4, p. 255-268 14 p.

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  2. Published

    Effectiveness of a gratitude app at reducing repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic risk factor in the general population: Results from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

    Kalon, L. S., Freund, H., Rinn, A., Watkins, P. C., Zarski, A. C. & Lehr, D., 15.11.2025, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 389, 11 p., 119664.

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  3. Published

    Effectiveness and treatment moderators of internet interventions for adult problem drinking: An individual patient data meta-analysis of 19 randomised controlled trials.

    Riper, H., Hoogendoorn, A., Cuijpers, P., Karyotaki, E., Boumparis, N., Mira, A., Andersson, G., Berman, A., Bertholet, N., Bischof, G., Blankers, M., Boon, B., Boß, L., Brendryen, H., Cunningham, J., Ebert, D. D., Hansen, A., Hester, R., Khadjesari, Z., Kramer, J., Murray, E., Postel, M., Schulz, D., Sinadinovic, K., Suffoletto, B., Sundström, C., de Vries, H., Wallace, P., Wiers, R. W. & Smit, J. H., 18.12.2018, In: PLoS Medicine. 15, 12, 26 p., e1002714.

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  4. Published

    Effectiveness and Moderators of an Internet-Based Mobile-Supported Stress Management Intervention as a Universal Prevention Approach: Randomized Controlled Trial

    Ebert, D. D., Franke, M., Zarski, A.-C., Berking, M., Riper, H., Cuijpers, P., Funk, B. & Lehr, D., 22.12.2021, In: Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23, 12, 19 p., e22107.

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  5. Published

    Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a guided internet- and mobile-based depression intervention for individuals with chronic back pain: protocol of a multi-centre randomised controlled trial

    Lin, J., Sander, L., Paganini, S., Schlicker, S., Ebert, D., Berking, M., Bengel, J., Nobis, S., Lehr, D., Mittag, O., Riper, H. & Baumeister, H., 01.12.2017, In: BMJ Open. 7, 12, 11 p., e015226 .

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  6. Published

    Economic Evaluation of an Internet-Based Stress Management Intervention Alongside a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Kählke, F., Buntrock, C., Smit, F., Berking, M., Lehr, D., Heber, E., Funk, B., Riper, H. & Ebert, D. D., 15.05.2019, In: JMIR Mental Health. 6, 5, 13 p., e10866.

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    Do Nonsuicidal Severely Depressed Individuals with Diabetes Profit from Internet-Based Guided Self-Help? Secondary Analyses of a Pragmatic Randomized Trial

    Schlicker, S., Weisel, K. K., Buntrock, C., Berking, M., Nobis, S., Lehr, D., Baumeister, H., Snoek, F. J., Riper, H. & Ebert, D. D., 14.05.2019, In: Journal of Diabetes Research. 2019, 11 p., 2634094.

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  9. Published

    Do guided internet-based interventions result in clinically relevant changes for patients with depression? An individual participant data meta-analysis

    Karyotaki, E., Ebert, D. D., Donkin, L., Riper, H., Twisk, J., Burger, S., Rozental, A., Lange, A., Williams, A. D., Zarski, A. C., Geraedts, A., van Straten, A., Kleiboer, A., Meyer, B., Ünlü Ince, B. B., Buntrock, C., Lehr, D., Snoek, F. J., Andrews, G., Andersson, G., Choi, I., Ruwaard, J., Klein, J. P., Newby, J. M., Schröder, J., Laferton, J. A. C., Van Bastelaar, K., Imamura, K., Vernmark, K., Boß, L., Sheeber, L. B., Kivi, M., Berking, M., Titov, N., Carlbring, P., Johansson, R., Kenter, R., Perini, S., Moritz, S., Nobis, S., Berger, T., Kaldo, V., Forsell, Y., Lindefors, N., Kraepelien, M., Björkelund, C., Kawakami, N. & Cuijpers, P., 01.07.2018, In: Clinical Psychology Review. 63, p. 80-92 13 p.

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  10. Published

    Does SMS-support make a difference? Effectiveness of a two-week online-training to overcome procrastination. A randomized controlled trial

    Eckert, M., Ebert, D. D., Lehr, D., Sieland, B. & Berking, M., 05.07.2018, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 9, JUL, 13 p., 1103.

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