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Keywords

Health Promotion; Intellectual Disability; Mental Health; Oncology; Palliative Care; Psychology, Clinical; Psychometrics; Statistics

Research group(s)

• Palliative and Geriatric Oncology Science Group
  Head: Matthias Unseld
  Research Area: Physiology and Psychology of the Elderly in a Palliative and Geriatric Context.
  Members:
  Connie Sifuentes Caccire
  Omar Keritam
  Markus Kieler
  Matthias Unseld
  Lea Kum
  Elisabeth Zeilinger
• A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach to Health Equity
  Head: Elisabeth Zeilinger
  Research Area: We target health and healthcare for vulnerable or marginalised populations, e.g. people with disabilities, people of low socio-economic status, and people with advanced diseases, taking into account a holistic approach to health that includes somatic, psychological, and social aspects.
  Members:
  Matthias Knefel
  Amelie Fuchs
  Nadine Brunevskaya
  Chiara Popinger
  Orcun Ilker Döger
  Theresa Wagner
  Alma Herscovici
  Elisabeth Zeilinger

Grants

• Cancer - Understanding Prevention in Intellectual Disabilities (CUPID) (2022)
  Source of Funding: EU, COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology
  Coordinator of the collaborative project
• Colorectal Cancer Prevention in Austria: Including People with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (2022)
  Source of Funding: OeGHO (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Hämatologie & Medizinische Onkologie), ASHO Clinical Research Grant
  Principal Investigator
• Facilitators and Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening in Women with Intellectual Disability in Austria (2022)
  Source of Funding: Medical Scientific Fund of the Mayor of the City of Vienna, City of Vienna Fund for Innovative Interdisciplinary Cancer Research
  Principal Investigator
• Mental Health in People with Intellectual Disabilities (2022)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), ESPRIT
  Principal Investigator
• Psycho-oncology Care in the Outpatient Setting (2022)
  Source of Funding: PHARMIG, MSD Join4Care
  Principal Investigator
• Back-2-Research Grant (2019)
  Source of Funding: MedUni Vienna & University of Vienna, Marie Jahoda Stipendium
  Principal Investigator
• Mobility Grant to Rome, Italy (2010)
  Source of Funding: Australian Federal Government, Department of Education and Training, Internationale Mobilität und wissenschaftlicher Austausch
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Zeilinger, E.L. et al. (2023) ‘The impact of COVID-19 and socioeconomic status on psychological distress in cancer patients’, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 23(4), p. 100404. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2023.100404.
2. Zeilinger, E.L. et al. (2022) ‘Prevalence of anxiety and depression in people with different types of cancer or haematologic malignancies: a cross-sectional study’, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 31. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2045796022000592.
3. Zeilinger, E.L. et al. (2022) ‘Informant-based assessment instruments for dementia in people with intellectual disability: A systematic review and standardised evaluation’, Research in Developmental Disabilities, 121, p. 104148. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104148.
4. Zeilinger, E.L. et al. (2022) ‘Latent structure and measurement invariance of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in cancer outpatients’, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 22(3), p. 100315. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2022.100315..
5. Zeilinger, E.L. et al. (2020) ‘Intellectual disability literacy and its connection to stigma: A multinational comparison study in three European countries’, PLOS ONE. Edited by T. van Amelsvoort, 15(10), p. e0239936. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239936.