Frauke Görges

• PhD
• Leipzig University

The aim of this cross-sectional study was the evaluation of the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in patients with depression or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in comparison with a group of mentally healthy individuals. Patients from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, Germany, were rec...

Background: While the antidepressant efficacy of guided digital interventions has been proven in randomized controlled trials, findings from routine care are less clear. Low adherence rates are common and limit the potential effectiveness. Adherence has been linked to sociodemographic variables and the amount of guidance, but the role of the guide...

BACKGROUND At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, several mental health care providers were obliged to shut down outpatient services, including group therapies and psychoeducational sessions. The lockdown in many countries is a serious threat for mental well-being, especially for individuals with severe mental illnesses. Discontinued outpatient tr...

Background: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, several mental health care providers were obliged to shut down outpatient services, including group therapy and psychoeducational sessions. The lockdown in many countries is a serious threat to people's mental well-being, especially for individuals with severe mental illnesses. Discontinued outpat...

While evidence on the efficacy of web-based interventions for depression seems promising, possible negative effects (NE), especially those beyond symptom deterioration, are largely understudied. Alongside a randomized controlled trial with an active control condition, data on NE were collected from 347 participants. An adapted version of the Invent...

Background An increasing number of studies suggest that web-based interventions for patients with depression can reduce their symptoms and are expected to fill currently existing treatment gaps. However, evidence for their efficacy has mainly been derived from comparisons with wait-list or treatment as usual controls. In particular, designs using w...

Objective: Previous research suggests that online positive psychology interventions (PPI) are frequently used by individuals with symptoms of depression. We aimed to investigate differences in the way depressed and nondepressed users react to the content of an existing online PPI, originally designed for the general public. Method: In a retrospe...

BACKGROUND Complementing the treatment of depression with internet based self-management interventions has been shown to be efficacious. However, evidence for their efficacy has mainly been derived from comparisons to waitlist or treatment as usual controls. These conditions are not likely to induce hope, but to maybe even have nocebo instead of pl...

Background: The treatment of major depressive disorder, a highly prevalent disorder associated with pronounced burden, is a large challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. Internet based self-management interventions seem to be a cost effective way to complement the treatment of depressed patients, but the accumulating evidence is mainly based on...

Introduction A growing number of internet interventions have been shown to help in alleviating symptoms of depression. So far, only little research has focused on other methods than CBT. The present study aimed to investigate the level of satisfaction with a positive psychology online training among patients with mild and moderate depression or dys...

Objectives: The primary objective of our study was to assess the level of acceptance and satisfaction with an internet-based happiness training by Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen, a well-known German physician and entertainer, among patients with mild and moderate depression or dysthymia. Secondary outcome measures included changes in symptom severity,...

Ziel dieser Pilotstudie ist es, die Akzeptanz des „Glück-kommt-selten-allein“-Onlinetrainings unter Menschen mit depressiven Erkrankungen zu untersuchen. Im Training stellt Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen die wirksamsten Übungen der ‘Positiven Psychologie‘ vor. Die Ideen basieren auf der Forschung zu „Positive Psychology Interventions“ (PPI) und dem Ko...

Relapses and, subsequently, readmissions are common in patients with schizophrenia. Psychoeducation has been shown to reduce the number and duration of readmissions. Yet, only little more than 20% of psychiatric patients in German speaking countries receive psychoeducation. Among other reasons, costs may be considered too high by hospitals. The obj...

Naming an object in the context of other objects requires the selection and processing of the target object at different levels, while the processing of competing representations activated by context objects has to be constrained. At what stage are these competing representations attenuated? To address this question, we presented pairs of target an...

Recently, Meyer, Belke, Telling and Humphreys (2007) reported that competitor objects with homophonous names (e.g., boy) interfere with identifying a target object (e.g., buoy) in a visual search task, suggesting that an object name's phonology becomes automatically activated even in situations in which participants do not have the intention to spe...

The aim of this research was to investigate whether the pictures of objects activate the phonology of the object’s name, even when naming is not a requirement of the experimental task. A series of nine visual search experiments or variations thereof was conducted to gain further insight into this issue. Participants were asked to indicate whether a...

In a picture-word interference experiment the authors demonstrate that a semantic-categorical relation between a to-be-named target picture and a context picture promotes the phonological activation of the to-be-ignored context picture. No such phonological activation is observed if the objects are semantically unrelated. This finding gives further...