Ibrahim Demirer

University of Cologne | UOC · Department of Medical Sociology

This article investigates whether gender differences in children’s math, reading, and behavior problems vary across mothers’ education and family structure. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-Children and Young Adults (N > 6,200; age range = 5–14; 51 percent female; 30 percent Black, 20 percent Hispanic, and 50 percent other e...

Hintergrund und Stand der Forschung: Entscheidungscoachings können als Maßnahme eingesetzt werden, um Patient:innen in die Lage zu versetzen aktiv im Entscheidungsprozess zu partizipieren. In der EDCP-BRCA Studie wurde die Wirksamkeit eines „Decision Coaching Programms“ für gesunde BRCA1/2-Mutationsträgerinnen evaluiert. Wirkmechanismen der Interve...

Objectives Labor-related mental health polarization refers to exposure to low-paid employment and unemployment decreasing mental health. Previous research identified economic worries as a key mediator. Against this background, the Covid-19 pandemic is often assumed to have accelerated already existing processes and affected vulnerable populations t...

Abstract Background The adoption of digital health technologies can improve the quality of care for polypharmacy patients, if the underlying complex implementation mechanisms are better understood. Context effects play a critical role in relation to implementation mechanisms. In primary care research, evidence on the effects of context in the adopt...

Hintergrund. Erwerbsarme gelten als vulnerable Gruppe. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob sich die Gesundheitsunterschiede zwischen Erwerbsarmen und Nicht- Erwerbsarmen während der COVID-19-Pandemie verstärkt haben, und führt dazu einen Zeitvergleich mit früheren Phasen ökonomischer Krisen und arbeitsmarktpolitischer Reformen durch. Methoden....

Purpose Low income is considered a possible determinant of presenteeism, explained by poor working and living conditions, increased levels of uncertainties and anxiety, and poor health status. We aimed to examine the association between low income and presenteeism by gender and to explain their association using different mediators. Methods A tota...

Objectives: Aims of this study were to analyze the association of working poverty with mental and physical health-related quality of life and to explain these associations by behavior-related factors (heavy drinking, smoking status, body mass index), socioeconomic insecurity (deprivation in living standards, economic worries), and mental working co...

Background One measure to quantify the degree of dysregulation is allostatic load (AL). Typically, AL incorporates information on diverse biomarkers and is associated with health outcomes such as cardiovascular diseases or the incidence of coronary events (C-E). Aims This study investigates the predictive performance of different AL scoring methods...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.cpnec.2021.100089.].

The relationship between nurse staffing, physical outcomes of residents, as well as quality of care receives major attention. The impact of staffing levels on residents’ ability to organize their everyday life and maintain social contacts, however, has not been analyzed to date. This study examines whether a relationship between the staff-to-reside...

Background General practitioners (GPs) are essential for providing and maintaining health care during a pandemic. Pandemic preparedness (PP) of GPs can play a vital role in their management of a pandemic situation. This study aimed to examine the association stockpiled personal protective equipment (PPE) and knowledge of pandemic plans on perceived...

Background The health care innovation “MamBo – people with multimorbidity in outpatient care: patient-focused and needs-oriented healthcare management” aims to improve the efficiency and quality of care for multimorbid patients by delegating tasks (e.g. taking over house calls or coordinating specialist appointments) to a monitoring and coordinatio...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed the work of general practitioners (GPs). At the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, German outpatient practices had to adapt quickly. Pandemic preparedness (PP) of GPs may play a vital role in their management of a pandemic. Objectives The study aimed to examine the association in the stock o...

Neue Versorgungsformen bedürfen vor Einführung in die Regelversorgung einer vorhergehenden Wirksamkeitsprüfung. Die häufig praktizierten Evaluationsansätze werden dem komplexen Kontext der neuen Versorgungsformen jedoch selten gerecht und entsprechend ist die Übertragbarkeit der Ergebnisse der Wirksamkeitsprüfung limitiert. Wir zeigen exemplarisch...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of positive affect in the association between multimorbidity and depressive symptoms. We used four consecutive waves (2008-2017) from the of the nationally representative German Ageing Survey (DEAS). We applied the mediational g-formula with inverse-probability weighting techniques and we also...

This study provides insights into the longitudinal relation between multimorbidity, mental wellbeing, and social support. The analysis used the German Sociomedical Panel of Employees, a study of the German working population aged 40 to 54. In the context of multimorbidity, this population has been little studied. Multimorbidity is significantly ass...

Background The health care innovation "MamBo – people with multimorbidity in outpatient care: patient-focused and needs-oriented healthcare management” aims to improve the efficiency and quality of care for multimorbid patients by delegating tasks (e.g. taking over house calls or coordinating specialist appointments) to a monitoring and coordinatio...

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, this article investigates whether gender differences in children’s math, reading and behavior problems vary across mothers’ education and family structure. Drawing on the framework of intersectionality, we expect that boys growing up with less educated mothers and in single-parent families m...

Background: With demographic change, the number of noncommunicable diseases, chronic diseases and multimorbidity is increasing, and so is the demand for health services. This represents a further challenge for the healthcare system. An adequate and efficient treatment of multimorbid patients requires a well-structured, informed and cross-indicated...