Dr. Justus Tönnies

Professional Career

Since 2023
Researcher, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Germany

2018 - 2022
Researcher, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Academic Career

2019 - 2024
Promotion Dr. sc. hum., University of Heidelberg, Germany

2015 - 2018
Master of Epidemiology, University of Bremen, Germany

2017 - 2017
Semester abroad, Erasmus, University of Birmingham, UK

2011 - 2015
Bachelor Public Health and Sports Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

Projects:

SalusTransform: Evaluierung von Maßnahmen zur gerechten gesundheitsfördernden Stadtentwicklung und großen Transformation hinsichtlich der Förderung von Gesundheit, der Verringerung sozialer Ungleichheiten und des Schutzes von Klima und Umwelt
Forschungsteam: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte (Projektleitung);PD Dr. Karin Bammann (Projektleitung); Justus Tönnies

Equal-Life: Die Bedeutung der Lebensumwelt von Kindern für deren Entwicklung und psychische Gesundheit
Forschungsteam: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bolte (Projektleitung); Jenny Ahrens; Dr. Stefanie Dreger; Dr. Helene Gudi-Mindermann; Dr. rer. pol.  Dipl.-Ing. Natalie Riedel; Jana Roczen; Maddie White;

Publications

Journal Articles reviewed

Haun MW, Tönnies J, Hartmann M, Wildenauer A, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Feißt M, Pohl M, Vomhof M, Icks A, Friederich HC. Model of integrated mental health video consultations for people with depression or anxiety in primary care (PROVIDE-C): assessor masked, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 2024;386:e079921 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-079921

Haun MW, van Eickels D, Tönnies J, Graue L, Ayoub-Schreifeldt M, Wensing M, Hartmann M, Szecsenyi J, Wild B, Friederich HC. An integrated mental health video consultations model for patients with somatic symptom disorder in primary care: The randomized VISION pilot trial. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 182, 111801, doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111801

Tönnies J, Ayoub-Schreifeldt M, Schrader V, Hartmann M, Wild B, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. From inpatient to outpatient mental health care: Protocol for a randomised feasibility trial of a care transition intervention for patients with depression and anxiety (the AMBITION-trial). PLOS ONE 18, 2023, e0291067. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291067

Tönnies J, Graue L, Ayoub-Schreifeldt M, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. Integrierte Behandlung von Patient*innen mit somatischer Belastungsstörung in Hausarztpraxen – Eine qualitative, patient*innenbeteiligende Evaluation einer randomisierten Machbarkeitsstudie. PPmP - Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie. 2023, 73, 465–472. DOI: 10.1055/a-2105-3402. https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-2105-3402

Haun MW, Oeljeklaus L, Hoffmann M, Tönnies J, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Peters-Klimm F, Krisam R, Kronsteiner D, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C. Primary care patients’ experiences of video consultations for depression and anxiety: a qualitative interview study embedded in a randomized feasibility trial.  BMC Health Services Research. 2023, 23, 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-09012-z.

Haun MW, Wildenauer A, Hartmann M, Bleyel C, Becker N, Jäger D, Friederich H-C, Tönnies J. Negotiating decisions on aggressive cancer care at end-of-life between patients, family members, and physicians – A qualitative interview study. Frontiers in Oncology. 2022, 12. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2022.870431

Schakowski A, Tönnies J, Friederich H-C, Hartmann M, Haun MW. The Inventory of Complicated Grief—A Systematic Psychometric Review and Conceptual Replication Study of the Structural Validity. Assessment, 2022, 10731911221100980. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221100980

Haun MW, Tönnies J, Graue L, Hartmann M, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Wild B, Friederich H-C. Mental health specialist video consultations for patients with somatic symptom disorder in primary care: protocol for a randomised feasibility trial (the VISION trial). BMJ open. 2022, 12(4), e058150. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058150

Haun MW, Hoffmann M, Wildenauer A, Tönnies J, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Peters-Klimm F, Krisam R, Kronsteiner D, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C. Health providers’ experiences with mental health specialist video consultations in primary care: a qualitative study nested within a randomised feasibility trial. BMJ open, 2021, 11(11), e047829. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047829

Tönnies J, Oeljeklaus L, Wensing M, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. Health policy experts’ perspectives on implementing mental health specialist video consultations in routine primary care – a qualitative interview study. BMC Health Services Research, 2021, 21(1), 713. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06676-x

Tönnies J, Hartmann M, Jäger D, Bleyel C, Becker N, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. Aggressiveness of Care at the End-of-Life in Cancer Patients and Its Association With Psychosocial Functioning in Bereaved Caregivers. Frontiers in Oncology, 2021, 11, 673147. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.673147

Haun MW, Tönnies J, Krisam R, Kronsteiner D, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Vomhof M, Icks A, Wild B, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C (2021). Mental health specialist video consultations versus treatment as usual in patients with depression or anxiety disorders in primary care: study protocol for an individually randomised superiority trial (the PROVIDE-C trial). Trials, 2021, 22(1), 327. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05289-3

Tönnies J, Hartmann M, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Peters-Klimm F, Brinster R, Weber D, Vomhof M, Icks A, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. Mental Health Specialist Video Consultations Versus Treatment-as-Usual for Patients With Depression or Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care: Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial. JMIR Mental Health, 2021, 8(3), e22569. https://doi.org/10.2196/22569

Shedden-Mora MC, Kuby A, Tönnies J, Piontek K, Löwe B. Stepped, collaborative, coordinated care for somatic symptom and related disorders (Sofu-Net): A mixed-methods evaluation among health care professionals. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 2020, 228, 119–129. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000405

Haun MW, Hoffmann M, Tönnies J, Dinger U, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C. Videokonsultationen durch Psychotherapeuten in Zeiten der COVID-19-Pandemie: Wirksamkeit, Gestaltung des Settings und erste Erfahrungen aus einer Machbarkeitsstudie sowie mit dem Routineangebot im Krankenhaus. Psychotherapeut, 2020, 65(4), 291–296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-020-00438-6

Tönnies J, Hartmann M, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Icks A, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. Mental health specialist video consultations for patients with depression or anxiety disorders in primary care: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ open, 2019, 9(9), e030003. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030003

Haun MW, Tönnies J, Oeljeklaus L, Hoffmann M, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Friederich H-C, Hartmann M. Videokonsultationen durch Psychotherapeuten in der Hausarztpraxis.  PPmP - Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie, 2019, 69(11), 471–474. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-0948-5494

Khan Z, Müller S, Ahmed S, Tönnies J, Nadir F, Samkange-Zeeb F. Quantitative Review of Oral Cancer Research Output from Pakistan. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention: APJCP, 2015, 16(11), 4733–4739. https://doi.org/10.7314/apjcp.2015.16.11.4733

Khan Z, Tönnies J, Müller S. Smokeless tobacco and oral cancer in South Asia: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Journal of Cancer Epidemiology, 2014, 394696. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/394696

Presentations / Poster

Telkmann K, Gudi-Mindermann H, Bogers R, Ahrens J, Tönnies J, van Kamp I, Vrijkotte T, Bolte G. Identification of exposome clusters relevant for children’s mental health: Results of the ABCD cohort study. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der GMDS, DGSMP, DGEPI, DGMS und DGPH, Dresden, 11.09.2024

Tönnies J, Wildenauer A, Krisam R, Feißt M, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Icks A, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. An integrated mental health video consultations model for primary care patients with depression and anxiety: a pragmatic effectiveness RCT (the PROVIDE-C trial). 26th World Congress of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA. Application and Innovation of Biopsychosocial Model. (2022). Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 91 Suppl 1, 3–40. https://doi.org/10.1159/000526562

Tönnies J, Hoffmann M, Stephan I, Wensing M, Szecsenyi J, Brinster R, Icks A, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. Implementierung von psychotherapeutischen Videokonsultationen bei Hausarztpatienten mit depressiven und Angststörungen – Ergebnisse einer randomisiert-kontrollierten Machbarkeitsstudie (BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe PROVIDE). Deutscher Kongress für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie 2021, Berlin, Deutschland. Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy. 2021;67(2):222–223. https://doi.org/10.13109/zptm.2021.67.2.153

Tönnies J, Schelletter I, Hoffmann M, Wensing M, Peters-Klimm F, Icks A, Hartmann M, Friederich H-C, Haun MW. Implementierung von psychotherapeutischen Videokonsultationen bei Hausarztpatienten mit depressiven und Angststörungen – Studienprotokoll und erste Ergebnisse einer randomisiert-kontrollierten Machbarkeitsstudie (BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe PROVIDE). Deutscher Kongress für Versorgungsforschung 2019, Berlin, Deutschland. GMS Medical Science.  https://doi.org/10.3205/19dkvf014