Kalpani W. Wijekoon Mudiyanselage

11/2020 Doctoral Researcher at BIPS. Dissertation project: Examining the global gap of mental healthcare use and interventions to reduce it (preliminary working title)

2018-2020 Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology, M.Sc., University of Groningen, Netherlands

02/2017-06/2017 Nottingham Trent University, UK (semester abroad)

2014-2018 Public Health, B.A (major); English-Speaking Cultures, B.A (minor), University of Bremen, Germany

-global mental health/healthcare
-underuse of mental healthcare services
-mental healthcare interventions

    Selected BIPS-Publications

  • Articles with peer review

  • Wijekoon Mudiyanselage KW, De Santis KK, Jörg F, Saleem M, Stewart R, Zeeb H, Busse H. The effectiveness of mental health interventions involving non-specialists and digital technology in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review. BMC Public Health. 2024;24:77.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17417-6
  • Wijekoon Mudiyanselage KW, Bastiaansen JA, Stewart R, Wardenaar KJ, Penninx BWJH, Schoevers RA, van Hemert AM, Jörg F. Identifying mismatch and match between clinical needs and mental healthcare use trajectories in people with anxiety and depression: Results of a longitudinal study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2022;297:657-670.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.09.054
  • Wijekoon Mudiyanselage KW, Samkange-Zeeb F, Brand T, Zeeb H. Exploring ethnic differences in understanding of self-rated health among persons of Turkish, Bosnian and German origin. BMC Research Notes. 2018;11:903.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-4019-9
  • Presentations at scientific meetings/conferences

  • Wijekoon Mudiyanselage KW, Jörg F, Saleem M, Stewart R, De Santis KK, Zeeb H, Busse H. Systematic review of mental health interventions using non-specialists and digital technology in low-middle income countries. 10th Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM), 15-17 June 2023, Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Wijekoon Mudiyanselage KW, Jörg F, Saleem M, Stewart R, De Santis KK, Zeeb H, Busse H. Mental health interventions using non-specialists and digital technology in low-middle income countries: Preliminary results of a systematic review. 37th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), 4-8 September 2023, Bremen.
  • Wijekoon Mudiyanselage KW, Bastiaansen JA, Stewart R, Wardenaar KJ, Penninx BWJH, Schoevers RA, van Hemert AM, Jörg F. Identifying mismatch and match between clinical needs and mental healthcare use trajectories in people with anxiety and depression: Results of a longitudinal study. European Conference on Mental Health, 29 September-1 October 2021, online presentation.

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