Dr. Michelle Dey

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Kinder- und Jugendgesundheit
• Psychische Gesundheit
• Stigma / Diskriminierung von Personen mit psychischen Erkrankungen
• Psychische Gesundheitskompetenz

Lehrtätigkeit

• Entwicklungspsychologie
• Globale psychische Gesundheit
• Herausfordernde Berufspraxis und Kooperation
• Soziale Konstruktion Gesundheit / Krankheit
• Methodische Beratung

Berufserfahrung

• Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
  ZHAW Winterthur, Institut für Public Health
  09 / 2022 - heute
• Wissenschaftliche Projektleiterin
  Universität Zürich, Schweizer Institut für Sucht- und Gesundheitsforschung
  07 / 2015 - 10 / 2022
• Postdoktorandin
  University of Melbourne, Population Mental Health Group
  11 / 2013 - 03 / 2015
• Postdoktorandin
  Universität Zürich, Institut für Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
  08 / 2012 - 08 / 2013
• Doktorandin
  Universität Zürich, Institut für Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
  08 / 2009 - 10 / 2012
• NGO-Mitarbeiterin
  pro juventute
  10 / 2007 - 07 / 2009
• Wissenschaftliche Assistentin
  Universität Zürich, Institut für Neuropsychologie
  08 / 2004 - 10 / 2004

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

• Dr. phil. / Psychologie / Public Health
  Universität Zürich / Swiss School of Public Health
  08 / 2009 - 09 / 2012
• Lic. phil. / Psychologie
  Universität Zürich
  10 / 2001 - 06 / 2007

Weiterbildung

• CAS Hochschuldidaktik und Erwachsenenbildung
  ZHAW
  06 / 2025
• CAS Krankheitsbewältigung und Ressourcenstärkung über die Lebensspanne
  Universität Zürich
  06 / 2022

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

Kompetenznetzwerk­ Child and Youth Public Health Research

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4300-1877

Projekte

• Connect – Integrierte Versorgung zum Thema psychische Gesundheit junger Frauen in Winterthur / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Evaluating, Identifying and REducing determinants MHC in Youth / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Producing an Arthritis Value-Framework with Economic Evidence – Paving the Way for Rare Childhood Disease / Stellv. Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Literaturreview zu Risiko- und Schutzfaktoren für die psychische Gesundheit / Krankheit von Heranwachsenden / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Inanspruchnahme von pädiatrischen Dienstleistungen in der Corona Pandemie / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Dey, M., Volken, T., Altwicker-Hámori, S., von Rhein, M., Seiler, M., Laasner, U., Wieber, F., & Dratva, J. (2025). Did the COVID-19 pandemic impact pediatric health service utilization in Switzerland? : interrupted time series models of health insurance data. Swiss Medical Weekly, 155(3899). https://doi.org/10.57187/s.3899
• Marshall, D. A., Gerber, B., Currie, G. R., Antón, J., De Somer, L., Dey, M., Egert, T., Egert, Y., Henan, L., Klotsche, J., Mifsut, L. M., Minden, K., Normand, C., Porte, D., Saurenmann, R. K., Swart, J. F., Uziel, Y., Wilson, J., Wouters, C., et al. (2024). Uncovering the hidden socioeconomic impact of juvenile idiopathic arthritis and paving the way for other rare childhood diseases : an international, cross-disciplinary, patient-centered approach (PAVE Consortium). Pediatric Rheumatology, 22(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12969-024-01012-z
• von Rhein, M., Chaouch, A., Oros, V., Manzano, S., Gualco, G., Sidler, M., Laasner, U., Dey, M., Dratva, J., Seiler, M., Altwicker-Hámori, S., Volken, T., & Wieber, F. (2024). The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric emergency department utilization in three regions in Switzerland. International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 17(64). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12245-024-00640-2

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

Dey, M., von Rhein, M., Volken, T., Chaouch, A., Laasner, U., Seiler, M., & Dratva, J. (2024). Longitudinal analyses (2018-2022) of the COVID-19 impact on Swiss pediatric healthcare utilization. 17th European Public Health Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 November 2024.

Weitere Publikationen

• Dey, M., Feer, S., Abegg, L., Baumann, I., & Dratva, J. (2025). Schutz- und Risikofaktoren für die psychische Gesundheit von Heranwachsenden : eine Literaturübersicht zur internationalen und Schweizer Forschung. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34648
• Dey, M., Volken, T., Altwicker-Hámori, S., Wieber, F., Dratva, J., von Rhein, M., Chaouch, A., Seiler, M., Laasner, U., & Sidler, M. (2024). Pediatric health service utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic (PedCov). Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-33359

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

• Raymer, P., Dey, M., Fahr, A., Mantwill, S., Lindert, J., Pirlog, M., & Dratva, J. (2025, September 11). Designing policy solutions for the pressing issue of youth mental health problems in Switzerland. Swiss Public Health Conference (SPHC), Lugano, Switzerland, 10-11 September 2025.
• Dratva, J., Seiler, M., Altwicker-Hámori, S., von Rhein, M., Laasner, U., & Dey, M. (2023, September 21). Effekte der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Inanspruchnahme von primär pädiatrischen Gesundheitsdienstleitungen in der Schweiz. Deutscher Kongress für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin (DGKJ), Hamburg, Deutschland, 20.-23. September 2023.
• Dey, M., Volken, T., Laasner, U., Seiler, M., & Dratva, J. (2023, June 16). Differences between pre-pandemic and pandemic (COVID-19) pediatric health service utilization in Switzerland : analyses of Swiss insurance data between 2018 and 2022. Jahreskongress Pädiatrie Schweiz, Interlaken, Schweiz, 15.-16. Juni 2023.

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

• Teachers’ experiences with and helping behavior towards students with mental health problems.
• Comparing a mindfulness- and CBT-based guided self-help Internet- and mobile-based intervention against a waiting-list control condition as treatment for adults with frequent cannabis use: a randomized controlled trial of CANreduce 3.0
• Online prevention programmes for university students: stakeholder perspectives from six European countries
• Stakeholders’ views on online interventions to prevent common mental health disorders in adults implemented into existing healthcare systems in Europe
• Non-participation in epidemiological school-based surveys: using mixed methods to study predictors and modes of justification for (non-)participation at the school level
• Stigmatizing attitudes of Swiss youth towards peers with mental disorders
• Problematic smartphone use in young Swiss men: its association with problematic substance use and risk factors derived from the pathway model
• The Swiss Youth Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Survey: study methodology, survey questions/ vignettes, and lessons learned
• One size does not fit all – evolution of opioid agonist treatments in a naturalistic setting over 23 years
• Quality of life of parents of mentally-ill children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of guided and unguided internet- and mobile-based indicated transdiagnostic prevention of depression and anxiety (ICare Prevent): a three-armed randomized controlled trial in four European countries
• Efficacy of a web- and text messaging-based intervention to reduce problem drinking in adolescents: results of a cluster-randomized controlled trail
• Help-negation in suicidal youth living in Switzerland
• Social determinants of mental health service utilization in Switzerland
• Changes in living arrangement, daily smoking, and risky drinking initiation among young Swiss men: a longitudinal cohort study
• Efficacy of an Internet-based self-help intervention to reduce co-occurring alcohol misuse and depression symptoms in adults: study protocol of a three-arm randomised controlled trial
• Reluctance to seek professional help among suicidal people: results from the Swiss Health Survey
• Young people's difficulty in talking to others about mental health problems: an analysis of time trends in Switzerland
• The Swiss cohort study on substance use risk factors – findings of two waves
• Adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its association with substance use and substance use disorders in young men
• Cross-sectional time trends in psychological and somatic health complaints among adolescents: a structural equation modelling analysis of ‘Health Behaviour in School-aged Children’ data from Switzerland
• DSM-IV and DSM-5 alcohol use disorder among young Swiss men
• Children with mental versus physical health problems: differences in perceived disease severity, health care service utilization and parental health literacy
• Does drinking location matter? Profiles of risky single-occasion drinking by location and alcohol-related harm among young men
• Psychiatric disorders, suicidality, and personality among young men by sexual orientation
• Prevalence of and associated factors for adults attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in young Swiss men
• Beverage preferences and associated drinking patterns, consequences and other substance use behaviours
• Body mass index and health-related quality of life among young Swiss men
• Health-risk behaviors and quality of life among young men
• Health literacy and substance use in young Swiss men
• Assessing parent-child agreement in health-related quality of life among three health status groups
• An analysis of non-response in a Swiss national survey
• Health-related quality of life among children with mental health problems: a population-based approach
• Health-related quality of life among children with mental disorder: a systematic review
• A comparison of health-related quality of life between children with versus without special health care needs, and children requiring versus not requiring psychiatric services
• Behavioural patterns and dangers: a mixed-methods exploration of simultaneous polysubstance use and intervention strategies among Swiss adolescents

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