• Intervention Research
• Item Response Theory
• Health services research
• Positive Mental Health
• Psycho-oncology
• Clinical Decision Making

Vaganian, L., Boecker, M., Bussmann, S., Kusch, M., Labouvie, H., Margraf, J., Gerlach, A. L., Cwik, J. C. (2022). Psychometric evaluation of the Positive Mental Health (PMH) scale using item response theory. BMC Psychiatry 22, 512. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022- 04162-0

Kusch, M., Labouvie, H., Schiewer, V., Talalaev, N., Cwik, J.C., Bussmann, S., Vaganian, L., Gerlach, A., Dresen, A., Cecon, N., et al. (2022). Integrated, cross-sectoral psycho-oncology (isPO): A new form of care for newly diagnosed cancer patients in Germany. BMC Health Services Res, 22, 543 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07782-0

Vaganian, L., Bussmann, S., Boecker, M., Kusch, M. Labouvie, H., Gerlach, A. L., & Cwik, J. C. (2021). An Item Analysis according to the Rasch Model of the German 12-item WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0). Quality of Life Research, 30(10):2929-2938.http://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-021-02872-8

Cwik, J. C., Vaganian, L., Bussmann, S., Labouvie, H., Houwaart, S., Gerlach, A. L., & Kusch, M. (2021). Assessment of coping with cancer-related burdens: psychometric properties of the Cognitive-Emotional Coping with Cancer (CECC) scale and the German Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer (Mini-MAC) scale. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research and Practice, 3(1), e046 http://doi.org/10.1097/OR9.0000000000000046

Schomberg, J., Teismann T., Bussmann, S., Vaganian, L., Gerlach, A. L., & Cwik, J. C. (2021). The significance of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide in an oncological context - a scoping review. European Journal of Cancer Care, 30, e13330.
http://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13330

Vaganian, L., Bussmann,S., Gerlach, A. L., Kusch, M., Labouvie, H., & Cwik, J. C. (2020). Critical consideration of assessment methods for clinically significant changes of mental distress after psycho‐oncological interventions. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, e1821. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1821

Bussmann, S.,* Vaganian, L.,*, Kusch, M., Labouvie, H., Gerlach, A. L. & Cwik, J. C. (2018). Angst und Emotionsregulation bei Krebspatienten. Psychotherapeut, 63(3), 194-203. http://doi.org./10.1007/s00278-018-0283-3
* Shared first authorship

Kals, E., Strubel, I., Vaganian, L., Güntert, S., Wehner, T. (2016). Freiwilligenarbeit und Erwerbsarbeit am Beispiel der Feuerwehr: mehr Gemeinsamkeiten als Unterschiede. Wirtschaftspsychologie. Heft 2. p. 67-79.