M. Puhan

Psychological and somatic distress profiles in young adults in and out of conflict settings: a cluster-based analysis of three population-based studies in Ukraine and Switzerland

Background Young adulthood is a developmental period characterized by major life transitions and increased exposure to stress, during which vulnerability to psychological and somatic symptoms may be heightened. These symptoms frequently co-occur, posing challenges for diagnostic and treatment approaches. Despite the me...

Deploying Local Large Language Models for Automated Article Screening in Scientific Literature Reviews

Collecting health narratives at scale: A multi-study evaluation of speech-to-text in health surveys

Patient narratives can reveal aspects of health that standardized measures miss, yet collecting open-ended responses at population scale remains difficult. We evaluated whether speech-to-text (STT) could enable richer responses in online health surveys without the resource demands of interviews. Across four surveys inv...

Longitudinal associations of physical activity with disease burden in people with COPD

Within-person decline in physical activity is associated with lower lung function, reduced exercise capacity, increased fatigue symptoms and lower functional quadriceps strength.