Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Medical University of Vienna & CSH Associate Faculty

Thomas Niederkrotenthaler is an associate professor and head of the unit Suicide Research & Mental Health Promotion at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He has been a member of the CSH Associate Faculty since September 2019.

 

Thomas is a suicidologist and mental health researcher with a particular focus on epidemiological research and media effects on suicide. His team has coined the Papageno effect which describes suicide-protective potentials of media reporting.

 

He has published more than 100 articles in the area of suicide prevention; and has received several grants for his research. Thomas is a board member of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and chairman of the Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research (http://www.suizidforschung.at).

Mail: thomas.niederkrotenthaler@meduniwien.ac.at

Tel: ++43 1 40160 34611

Web: Personal Site

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Publications

2021

T. Niederkrotenthaler, et al.

Mental health over nine months during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic: Representative cross-sectional survey in twelve waves between April and December 2020 in Austria

Journal of Affective Disorders 296 (2022) 49–58

H. Taipale, et al.

Persistence of antidepressant use among refugee youth with common mental disorder

Journal of Affective Disorders 294 (2021) 831-837

M. Strauss, et al.

Data-driven identification of complex disease phenotypes

Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18 (180) (2021) 20201040

2020

M Sinyor, et al.

Suicide mortality in the United States following the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (Dec 2020)

M. Kaleta, [...] P. Klimek et al.

How specialist aftercare impacts long-term readmission risks in elderly patients with metabolic, cardiac, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (…)

JMIR Med Inform 8 (9) (2020) e18147

2019

T. Niederkrotenthaler, et al.

Healthcare utilization, psychiatric medication and risk of rehospitalization in suicide-attempting patients with common mental disorders

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Vol 54, Issue 4 (2020)

T. Niederkrotenthaler, et al.

Association of Increased Youth Suicides in the United States With Release of 13 Reasons Why

JAMA Psychiatry 76 (9) (2019) 933–940

Press

2023

PRESS

Tweets zu Suizidprävention können Suizide verhindern [feat.Hannah Metzler, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler]

Anästhesie Nachrichten, Feb 9, 2023

2020

PRESS

Krise belastet vor allem Junge und lässt den Ärger wachsen [print]

Die Presse, Nov 18, 2020

PRESS

Krise belastet Junge stark und lässt Ärger wachsen, nicht mehr Suizide

Tiroler Tageszeitung, Nov 17, 2020

PRESS

Leben in der Krise: Unmut wächst

ORF Science, Nov 17, 2020