Staff Profile

I am a public health researcher with a special interest in developing effective and accurate ways to measure self-reported health. My academic background is in Pharmacy and Mental Health and I have work experience in pharmaceuticals industry, academia and consultancy. I am currently part of the Health Economics and Evidence Synthesis group at Newcastle University.      

My PhD thesis consisted of  developing two questionnaires designed to improve doctors’ detection levels of depression and anxiety disorders. I undertook this thesis in Barcelona, Spain as part of a Health Services Research group (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute).

My main research interests are:

• Development and psychometric properties of quality of life instruments
• Development of preference based measures
• Mental health
• Health inequalities
  
• Social care  
  

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Current research projects:

I am currently working on the following research projects:

• Measuring Quality of Life in the general population and Roma minority in Romania: implications for health policies and economic evaluations – QoLRO

Past research projects:

• PROMIS.es Mental Health: Validation and calibration of a Computerized Adaptive Test based on patient reported outcomes to assess, diagnose and monitor mental health (PROMIS.es Salud Mental:calibración y validación de un instrumento informatizado de evaluación de resultados percibidos por los pacientes para diagnóstico y monitorización en Salud Mental)
• Symptom severity assessment in mood and anxiety disorders. Clinical and epidemiological implications for DSM-5 (Evaluación de la gravedad basada en los síntomas de los trastornos del estado de ánimo y de ansiedad. Implicaciones epidemiológicas y clínicas para el DSM-5)
  

• Olariu E, Paveliu MS, Baican E, Oluboyede Y, Vale L, Niculescu-Aron IG. Measuring health-related quality of life in the general population and Roma communities in Romania: Study protocol for two cross-sectional studies. BMJ Open 2019, 9(8), e029067.
• Olariu E, Pooley N, Danel A, Miret M, Preiser JC. A systematic scoping review on the consequences of stress-related hyperglycaemia. PLoS One 2018, 13(4), e0194952.
• Forero CG, Olariu E, Álvarez P, Castro-Rodriguez JI, Blasco MJ, Vilagut G, Pérez V, Alonso J, INSAyD Investigators. Change in functioning outcomes as a predictor of the course of depression: a 12-month longitudinal study. Quality of Life Research 2018, 27(8), 2045-2056.
• Olariu E, Cadwell KK, Hancock E, Trueman D, Chevrou-Severac H. Current recommendations on the estimation of transition probabilities in Markov cohort models for use in health care decision-making: a targeted literature review. ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research 2017, 9, 537-546.
• Olariu E, Forero CG, Álvarez P, Castro-Rodriguez JI, Blasco MJ, Alonso J, INSAyD Investigators. Asking patients about their general level of functioning: Is IT worth IT for common mental disorders?. Psychiatry Research 2015, 229(3), 791-800.
• Olariu E, Forero CG, Castro-Rodriguez JI, Rodrigo-Calvo MT, Álvarez P, Martín-López LM, Sánchez-Toto A, Adroher ND, Blasco-Cubedo MJ, Vilagut G, Fullana MA, Alonso J. Detection of anxiety disorders in primary care: a meta-analysis of assisted and unassisted diagnoses. Depression and Anxiety 2015, 32(7), 471-484.
• Castro-Rodríguez JI, Olariu E, Garnier-Lacueva C, Martín-López LM, Pérez-Solà V, Alonso J, Forero CG, INSAyD investigators. Diagnostic accuracy and adequacy of treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders: A comparison of primary care and specialized care patients. Journal of Affective Disorders 2015, 172, 462-471.
• Vilagut G, Forero CG, Adroher ND, Olariu E, Cella D, Alonso J, INSAyD investigators. Testing the PROMIS® Depression measures for monitoring depression in a clinical sample outside the US. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2015, 68, 140-150.
• Olariu E, Castro-Rodriguez JI, Álvarez P, Garnier C, Reinoso M, Martín-López LM, Alonso J, Forero CG. Validation of clinical symptom IRT scores for diagnosis and severity assessment of common mental disorders. Quality of Life Research 2015, 24(4), 979-992.