2020-to date

Publications marked with an asterisk (*) are (co-)authored by the KIDSCREEN Europe Group.

2026

Li L, Sawyer SM, Newby H, Dunstan L, Azzopardi PS. Quantitative measures of subjective wellbeing for adolescents: a scoping review and synthesis of comparable data. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2026 Feb;10(2):135-146. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(25)00282-2. Epub 2025 Dec 1. PMID: 41344361.
Takele GM, Sullivan T, Samaranayaka A, Åström M, Herdman M, Arega G, Derrett S. Generic health-related quality of life instruments among children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review. Syst Rev. 2026 Jan 16;15(1):56. doi: 10.1186/s13643-025-03060-2. PMID: 41540454; PMCID: PMC12892695.
*Behn, S., Napp, A.-K., Reiß, F., Kaman, A., Barkmann, C., Erhart, M., & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2026). Physical activity and mental health in children and adolescents during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from the six-wave German COPSY study. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 8, 1776510. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2026.1776510

2025

*Kaman, A., Devine, J., Erhart, M., Napp, A.-K., Reiss, F., Moeller, S., Zoellner, F., Behn, S., & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2025). Youth Mental Health in Times of Global Crises: Evidence From the German Longitudinal COVID-19 and Psychological Health Study. Journal of Adolescent Health, S1054139X25001983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2025.05.010
*Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Devine, J., Napp, A.-K., Reiß, F., Behn, S., & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2025). Psychische Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Zeiten globaler Krisen: Ergebnisse der COPSY-Längsschnittstudie von 2020 bis 2024. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 68(6), 670–680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-025-04045-1
*Reiß F, Volk C, Behn S, Kaman A, Klos L, Burchartz A, Hinz T, Hanssen-Doose A, Woll A, Niessner C, Ravens-Sieberer U. Psychische Gesundheit und körperliche Aktivität von Heranwachsenden unterschiedlicher sozialer Herkunft. Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother. 2025 Nov;53(6):304-316. German. doi: 10.1024/1422-4917/a001045. Epub 2025 Sep 26. PMID: 4099407
Befus EG, Mølland E, Helseth S, Westergren T, Abildsnes E, Hagen M, Nolte S, Haraldstad K. Health-related quality of life and its association with socioeconomic status and mental health in 5- to 7-year-old children: a cross-sectional study. Qual Life Res. 2025 Feb;34(2):549-561. doi: 10.1007/s11136-024-03834-6. Epub 2024 Nov 20. PMID: 39565553; PMCID: PMC11865220.
Prünster V, Goth K, Niedermeier M, Greier K, Labek K, Ruedl G. Personality functioning in adolescents and its association with health-related quality of life and physical fitness. AIMS Public Health. 2025 Sep 12;12(3):952-969. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2025047. PMID: 41127433; PMCID: PMC12538246

2024

*Li, J., Zhu, Y., Zhu, G., Qiu, Z., Wang, J., Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Adedeji, A., Liu, Y., Wu, D., Ravens-Sieberer, U., the WFMU-KS-MC research group, Yin Ng, J. Y., Ma, Y., Wu, H., Yu, Y., Hao, Y., Wang, H., Shi, H., … Wang, M. (2024). Measuring health-related quality of life in a Chinese Mainland adolescent population: psychometric properties of the Mandarin Chinese self-reported KIDSCREEN-27 and KIDSCREEN-10 index. BMC Psychology, 12(1), 600. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01876-6
*Kaman A, Devine J, Wirtz MA, Erhart M, Boecker M, Napp AK, Reiss F, Zoellner F, Ravens-Sieberer U. Trajectories of mental health in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the longitudinal COPSY study. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2024 Jul 18;18(1):89. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-024-00776-2

2023

*Barbieri, V., Wiedermann, C. J., Piccoliori, G., Mahlknecht, A., Plagg, B., Ausserhofer, D., Ravens-Sieberer, U., & Engl, A. (2023). Evolution of Youth’s Mental Health and Quality of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Tyrol, Italy: Comparison of Two Representative Surveys. Children, 10(5), 895.
*Felfe, C., Saurer, J., Schneider, P., Vornberger, J., Erhart, M., Kaman, A., & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2023). The youth mental health crisis: Quasi-experimental evidence on the role of school closures. Science Advances, 9(33), eadh4030. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh4030
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Devine, J., Napp, A.-K., Kaman, A., Saftig, L., Gilbert, M., Reiss, F., Löffler, C., Simon, A., Hurrelmann, K., Walper, S., Schlack, R., Hölling, H., Wieler, L.H. & Erhart, M. (2023). Three years into the pandemic:Results of the longitudinal German COPSY study on youth mental health and health-related quality of life. Front. Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1129073
*Reiß, F., Kaman, A., Napp, A-K., Devine, J., Li, L.Y., Strelow, L., Erhart, M., Hölling, H., Schlack, R. & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2023). Epidemiologie seelischen Wohlbefindens von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland. Ergebnisse aus 3 Studien vor und während der COVID-19-Pandemie. Bundesgesundheitsbl. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-023-03720-5

2022

*Barbieri, V., Wiedermann, C.J., Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Piccoliori, G., Plagg, B., Mahlknecht, A., Ausserhofer, D., Engl, A. & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2022). Quality of Life and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents after the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Large Population-Based Survey in South Tyrol, Italy. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(9), 5220. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095220
*Budler, L.C., Pajnkihar, M., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Barr, O. & Stiglic, G. (2022). The KIDSCREEN-27 scale: translation and validation study of the Slovenian version. Health Qual Life Outcomes, 20(1), 67. doi: 10.1186/s12955-022-01973-3
*Ferro, M.A., Otto, C. & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2022). Measuring health-related quality of life in young children with physical illness: psychometric properties of the parent-reported KIDSCREEN-27. Qual Life Res, 31(5), 1509-1520. doi: 10.1007/s11136-021-03054-2
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Devine, J., Schlack, R. & Otto, C. (2022). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life and mental health in children and adolescents in Germany. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 31(6), 879-889. doi: 10.1007/s00787-021-01726-5.
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M., Devine, J., Gilbert, M., Reiss, F., Barkmann, C., Siegel, N.A., Simon, A.M., Hurrelmann, K., Schlack, R., Hölling, H., Wieler, L.H. & Kaman, A. (2022). Child and Adolescent Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of the Three-Wave Longitudinal COPSY Study. J Adolesc Health, 71(5), 570-578. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.06.022
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Karow, A., Barthel, D., & Klasen, F. (2022). How to assess quality of life in child and adolescent psychiatry. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 16(2), 147-158. https://doi.org/10.31887/dcns.2014.16.2/usieberer
*Seum, T., Meyrose, A.K., Rabel, M., Schienkiewitz, A. & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2022). Pathways of Parental Education on Children's and Adolescent's Body Mass Index: The Mediating Roles of Behavioral and Psychological Factors. Front Public Health, 10, 763789. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.763789
*Wiegand-Grefe, S., Liedtke, A., Morgenstern, L., Hoff, A., Csengoe-Norris, A., Johannsen, J., Denecke, J., Barkmann, C., Grolle, B., Daubmann, A., Wegscheider, K. & Boettcher, J. (2022). Health-Related Quality of Life and mental health of families with children and adolescents affected by rare diseases and high disease burden: the perspective of affected children and their siblings. BMC Pediatr, 22(1), 596. doi: 10.1186/s12887-022-03663-x
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M.,Devine, J., Gilbert, M., Reiss, F., Barkmann, C., Siegel, N., Simon, A., Hurrelmann, K., Schlack, R., Hölling, H., Wieler, L.H. & Kaman, A. (2022). Child and Adolescent Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of the Three-Wave Longitudinal COPSY Study. Journal of Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.06.022
*Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Devine, J., Reiß, F., Napp, A.-K., Simon, A., Hurrelmann, K., Schlack, R., Hölling, H., Wieler, L. & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2022). Zwei Jahre Pandemie: Die psychische Gesundheit und Lebensqualität von Kindern und Jugendlichen – Ergebnisse der COPSY-Längsschnittstudie [Two years of pandemic: the mental health and quality of life of children and adolescents—findings of the COPSY longitudinal study]. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. https://doi.org//10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0001

2021

*Barkmann, C., Otto, C., Meyrose, A.-K., Reiss, F., Wüstner, A., Voß, C., Erhart, M., & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2021). Psychometrie und Normierung des Lebensqualitätsinventars KIDSCREEN in Deutschland [Psychometrics and Norms of the Quality of Life Inventory KIDSCREEN in Germany]. Diagnostica, 67, 2-12. doi:10.1026/0012-1924/a000257
Egilson, S.T., Ólafsdóttir, L.B., Ingimarsdóttir, S.T., Haraldsdóttir, F., Jóhannsdóttir, Á., Gibson, B.E. og Hardonk, S. (2021). Life quality and participation of disabled children and young people: Design and methods of a transformative study. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, 1–13. doi:10.1177/16094069211016713
*Ferro, M.A., Qureshi, S.A., Shanahan, L., Otto, C. & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2021). Health-related quality of life in children with and without physical-mental multimorbidity. Qual Life Res, 30(12), 3449-3461. doi: 10.1007/s11136-021-02963-6
*Krause, K. R., Chung, S., Adewuya, A. O., Albano, A. M., Babins-Wagner, R., Birkinshaw, L., Brann, P., Creswell, C., Delaney, K., Falissard, B., Forrest, C. B., Hudson, J. L., Ishikawa, S.-i., Khatwani, M., Kieling, C., Krause, J., Malik, K., Martínez, V., Mughal, F., Ollendick, T. H., Ong, S. H., Patton, G. C., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Szatmari, P., Thomas, E., Walters, L., Young, B., Zhao, Y., & Wolpert, M. (2021). International consensus on a standard set of outcome measures for child and youth anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(1), 76-86. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30356-4
*Otto, C., Reiss, F., Voss, C., Wüstner, A., Meyrose, A.K., Hölling, H. & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2021). Mental health and well-being from childhood to adulthood: design, methods and results of the 11-year follow-up of the BELLA study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 30, 1559–1577. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01630-4
*Plass-Christl, A., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Hölling, H. & Otto, C. (2021). Trajectories of health-related quality of life in children of parents with mental health problems: results of the BELLA study. Qual Life Res, 30(7), 1841-1852. doi: 10.1007/s11136-021-02783-8
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Otto, C., Devine, J., Löffler, C., Hurrelmann, K., Bullinger, M., Barkmann, C., Siegel, N.A., Simon, A.M., Wieler, L.H., Schlack, R., Hölling, H. (2021). Quality of life and mental health in children and adolescents during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a two-wave nationwide population-based study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 1–14. doi: 10.1007/s00787-021-01889-1
*Wunsch, K., Nigg, C. R., Weyland, S., Jekauc, D., Niessner, C., Burchartz, A., Schmidt, S., Meyrose, A.-K., Manz, K., Baumgarten, F., & Woll, A. (2021). The relationship of self-reported and device-based measures of physical activity and health-related quality of life in adolescents. Health Qual Life Outcomes, 19(1), 67. doi:10.1186/s12955-021-01682-3
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Devine, J., Schlack, R., & Otto, C. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life and mental health in children and adolescents in Germany. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01726-5
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Kaman, A., Erhart, M., Otto, C., Devine, J., Löffler, C., Hurrelmann, K., Bullinger, M., Barkman, C., Siegel, N.A., Simon, A.M., Wieler, L.H., Schlack, R. &. Hölling, H. (2021). Quality of life and mental health in children and adolescents during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a two-wave nationwide population-based study. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01889-1

2020

*Otto, C., Reiss, F., Voss, C., Wüstner, A., Meyrose, A.-K., Hölling, H., & Ravens-Sieberer, U. (2020). Mental health and well-being from childhood to adulthood: design, methods and results of the 11-year follow-up of the BELLA study. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-19. doi:10.1007/s00787-020-01630-4
*Urzeală, C., Bota, A., Teodorescu, S., Vlăiculescu, M., Baker, J. S., & The Kidscreen Group Europe. (2020). Quality of Life in Romanian Children with Type 1 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Survey Using an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Intervention. Healthcare, 8(4), 382. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040382
*Ravens-Sieberer, U., Kaman, A., Otto, C., Adedeji, A., Devine, J., Erhart, M., Napp, A.-K., Becker, M., Blanck-Stellmacher, U., Löffler, C., Schlack, R. & Hurrelmann, K. (2020). Psychische Gesundheit und Lebensqualität von Kindern und Jugendlichen während der COVID-19-Pandemie – Ergebnisse der COPSY-Studie [Mental health and quality of life in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic—results of the COPSY study]. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 117(48), 828-829. https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2020.0828