Peer-reviewed papers:
Contreras J, Guerrero-Vazquez M, Hidalgo A, Caicedo J, Robalino T, Camelo-Castillo W, Villalonga-Olives E. Cross-cultural adaptation of the Health Literacy Instrument Short Form (HLSI-SF) for US Hispanics/Latinos. In press Health Literacy Research and Practice.
Contreras J, Wang C, Camelo-Castillo W, Caicedo J, Guerrero-Vazquez M, Robalino T, Hidalgo A, Villalonga-Olives E. The cultural adaptation of the Awareness and Beliefs about cancer measure for Hispanics/Latinos living in the United States. Front Public Health. 2024 Sep 2:12:1351729. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1351729.
Villalonga-Olives E, Khademi A, Pan Y-Y, Ransome Y. Unveiling disparities: examining differential item functionin’s impact on racial health equity among White and Black populations. Public Health. 2024 Jun;231:80-87. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2024.03.006.
Calabrese M, Shaya FT, Palumbo F, McPherson M, Villalonga-Olives E, Zafari Z, Mutter R. State-level policies and receipt of CDC-informed opioid thresholds among commercially insured new chronic opioid users. J Opioid Manag. 2024 Mar-Apr;20(2):149-168. doi: 10.5055/jom.0824.
Khademi A, Wells C.S., Oliveri ME, Villalonga-Olives E. Examining appropriacy of CFI and TLI cutoff value in multiple-group CFA test of measurement invariance to enhance accuracy of test score interpretation. SAGE Open. 2024 https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231205
Abdelwadoud M, Huang J, Villalonga-Olives E, dosReis S, Liz Jansky, Mullins C.D., Campbell M, Kusinitz M, Ovelmen H, Ju J. FDA aging women’s health information-seeking experiences and preferences for FDA-regulated products: a qualitative study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Mar 9;21(3):321. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21030321.
Calabrese M, Shaya FT, Palumbo F, McPherson M, Villalonga-Olives E, Zafari Z, Mutter R. Short-term healthcare resource utilization associated with receipt of CDC-informed opioid thresholds among commercially insured new chronic opioid users. Opioid Manag. 2024 Jan-Feb;20(1):31-50. doi: 10.5055/jom.0848.
Costantino RC, Gressler LE, Highland KD, Oehrlein EM,Villalonga-Olives E, Perfetto EM. Patient-Centeredness and Psychometric Properties of the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale 2.0 (DVPRS). Pain Med. 2024 Jan 4;25(1):57-62. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnad125.
Ransome Y, Villalonga-Olives E Respond to “Improving Measures to Counter Bias”. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Aug 4;192(8):1276-1277. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwad064.
Villalonga-Olives E, Majercak KR, Almansa J, Khambaty T. Longitudinal impact of volunteering on the cognitive functioning of older adults in the US Health and Retirement Study: Data from 2006 to 2016. Int J Nurs Sci. 2023 Jun 30;10(3):373-382. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2023.06.018. eCollection 2023 Jul.
Contreras J, Ficannon A, Kambathy T, Villalonga-Olives E. Social capital in Hispanics living in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Apr 11;20(8):5465. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20085465.
Melo R, Schutz V, Wachholz P, Villalonga-Olives E, Myer D, Corazzini K, Lepore M. Long-term care staff perspectives on the care of persons living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo State, Brazil. J Gerontol Nurs. 2023 May;49(5):45-52. doi: 10.3928/00989134-20230414-05. Epub 2023 May 1.
Ransome Y, Villalonga-Olives E. Response to commentary on Black and Whites respond to social capital differently: what racial differential item functioning reveals and racial health equity implications. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Mar 16:kwad064.
Ransome Y, Hayashi K, PhD; Gamble-George, JC, Dean LT, Villalonga-Olives E. Racial and ethnic differences in the association of social cohesion and social capital with HIV testing. SSM-Population Health. 2022 Dec 22;21:101327.
Caqueo-Urízar A, Urzúa A, Villalonga-Olives E, Flores J, Atencio D, Ramírez C. Children’s mental health: discrepancy between child self-reporting and parental reporting. Behav Sci. 2022 Oct 19;12(10):401. doi: 10.3390/bs12100401.
Khairnar R, Pugh SL, Sandler HM, Lee WR, Villalonga-Olives E, Mullins CD, Palumbo FB, Bruner DW, Shah AB, Malone S, Michalski JM, Dayes IS, Seaward SA, Albert M, Currey AD, Pisansky TM, Chen Y, Horwitz EM, DeNittis AS, Feng F, Mishra MV. A methodological comparison of mapping algorithms derived using cross-sectional and longitudinal data: secondary analysis of NRG/RTOG 0415. In press JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
Wind T.R., Armand A, Yirefu M, Smith R, Aldrich DP. Social capital based mental health interventions for refugees: a systematic review. Soc Sci Med. 2022 Feb 19;301:114787. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114787. Online ahead of print.PMID: 35366460
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I, Hernández-Aguado I. Social capital during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak: the case of the island of Menorca. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 2;18(23):12720. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182312720.PMID: 34886444
Majercak KR, Perfetto EM, Villalonga-Olives E. Capturing the Patient Experience in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Are Widely Used Measures Fit-For-Purpose and Adherent to FDA PRO Guidance Recommendations? Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 2022 Jan 21;6(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s41687-022-00411-8.
Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res. 2021 Sep 24:1-8. doi: 10.1080/14737167.2021.1981291.
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I, Rodríguez AM. The Rasch measurement of the Bridging Social Capital Questionnaire.SSM Popul Health. 2021 Apr 8;14:100791. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100791. eCollection 2021 Jun.
Hong K, Majercak K, Villalonga-Olives E, Perfetto EM. Patient-reported outcomes in breast cancer FDA drug labels and review documents. J Patient Rep Outcomes. 2021 Apr 21;5(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s41687-021-00308-y.
Khairnar R, Pugh SL, Sandler HM, Lee WR, Villalonga Olives E, Mullins CD, Palumbo FB, Bruner DW, Shaya FT, Bentzen SM, Shah AB, Malone SC, Michalski JM, Dayes IS, Seaward SA, Albert M, Currey AD, Pisansky TM, Chen Y, Horwitz EM, DeNittis AS, Feng FY, Mishra MV. Mapping expanded prostate cancer index composite to EQ5D utilities to inform economic evaluations in prostate cancer: Secondary analysis of NRG/RTOG 0415. PLoS One. 2021 Apr 14;16(4):e0249123. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249123. eCollection 2021.PMID: 33852571
Caqueo-Urízar A, Urzúa A, Escobar-Soler C, Flores J, Mena-Chamorro P, Villalonga-Olives E. Effects of Resilience and Acculturation Stress on Integration and Social Competence of Migrant Children and Adolescents in Northern Chile. In Press International Journal Environmental Research and Public Health.
Majercak KR, Magder LS, Villalonga-Olives E. Social Capital and Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence (CRN): A Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Study Using the Health and Retirement Study Data, 2006-2016. SSM-Population Health. 2020 Oct 5;12:100671. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100671. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Villalonga-Olives E, J. Almansa, F. Shaya, Kawachi I. Individual and community social capital and binge drinking in older adults: the Health and Retirement Study, 2006-2014. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2020 Sep 1;214:108099. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108099. Epub 2020 Jun 29.
Gandhi AB, Slejko JF, Villalonga-Olives E, Wickwire EM, Olopoenia A, Onukwugha E. Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Increases All-Cause Healthcare Utilization and Costs among Individuals with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Pain Management. 2020 Nov;10(6):377-386. doi: 10.2217/pmt-2020-0012. Epub 2020 Oct 19.
Shah CH, Eakin MN, Villalonga-Olives E, Reed RM, Slejko JF, Zafari Z. Quantifying heterogeneity of health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the United States. Respiratory Medicine.2020 Sep;14(9):937-947. doi: 10.1080/17476348.2020.1776612. Epub 2020 Jun 16.
Olopoenia A, Onukwugha E, Simoni-Wastila L, Camelo-Castillo W, Villalonga-Olives E, Gandhi A, Slejko JF. Patterns of prescription opioid utilization among adolescents and adults with co-morbid chronic pain and mental health diagnosis. Pain. 2020 Oct;161(10):2299-2307. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001934.
Costantino RC, Gressler LE, Onukwugha E, McPherson ML, Fudin J, Villalonga-Olives E, Slejko JF. Initiation of Transdermal Fentanyl Among US Commercially Insured Patients Between 2007 and 2015 Pain Med. 2020 Oct 1;21(10):2229-2236. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa091.
Villalonga-Olives E, Almansa J, Knott CL, Ransome Y. Social capital and health status: longitudinal race and ethnicity differences in older adults from 2006 to 2014. Int J Public Health. 2020 Apr;65(3):291-302. doi: 10.1007/s00038-020-01341-2. Epub 2020 Feb 21.PMID: 32086535
Carillo-Álvarez E, Villalonga-Olives E, Riera J, Kawachi I. Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure family social capital. SSM – Population Health. 2019 Jul 16;8:100453. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100453. eCollection 2019 Aug.
Duk-Hong Y, Villalonga-Olives E, Perfetto E. Patient-Reported Outcomes in orphan drug labels approved by the U.S. FDA.2019 Aug;22(8):925-930. Value in Health. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.03.010. Epub 2019 May 17.
Park S, Thi Le T, Slejko JF, Villalonga-Olives E, Onukwugha E. Changes in opiod utilization following tumor necrosis factor inhibitor initiation in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatol Ther. 2019 Dec;6(4):611-616. doi: 10.1007/s40744-019-00175-6. Epub 2019 Oct 18.
Kuwahara K, Kiyohara K, Kikuchi H, Villalonga-Olives E, Brewer N, Aman-Oloniyo A, Aggarwal P, Restrepo-Méndez MC, Oze I: Networks for early career epidemiologists around the world: the current status and future directions. Int J Epidemiol. 2019 Apr 21. pii: dyz074. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyz074.
Kuwahara K, Kiyohara K, Kikuchi H, Villalonga-Olives E, Brewer N, Aman-Oloniyo A, Aggarwal P, Restrepo-Méndez MC, Oze I: Perceived barriers to career progression among early-career epidemiologists.J Epidemiol. 2019 Jan 5;29(1):38-41. doi: 10.2188/jea.JE20180184.
Villalonga-Olives E, Wind T.R., Kawachi I. Social capital interventions in public health: a systematic review. Soc Sci Med. 2018 Sep;212:203-218. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.022. Epub 2018 Jul 23.
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I. The dark side of social capital: a systematic review of the negative health effects of social capital. Soc Sci Med. 2017 Dec;194:105-127. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.020. Epub 2017 Oct 21.
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I, von Steinbüchel N. Pregnancy and birth outcomes among immigrant women in the US and Europe: a systematic review. J Immigr Minor Health. 2017 Dec;19(6):1469-1487. doi: 10.1007/s10903-016-0483-2.PMID: 27553259
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I, Steinbuechel N. Longitudinal changes in Health Related Quality of Life in children with migrant backgrounds. PLoS One. 2017 2;12(2):e0170891. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170891. eCollection 2017.
Villalonga-Olives E. Book review. Lilienfeld’s Foundations of Epidemiology. 4th Ed. Oxford University Press. Int J Epidemiol. 2017 46 (1): 370-371.
Villalonga-Olives E, Adams I, Kawachi I. The development of a bridging social capital questionnaire for use in public health settings. SSM – Population Health. 2016 (2):613-622.
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I. The measurement of bridging social capital in population health research. Health Place. 2015 Sep 24;36:47-56. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.09.002. [Epub ahead of print]
Villalonga-Olives E, Kiese-Himmel C, Witte C, Almansa J, Dusilova I, Hacker K, von Steinbuechel N. Self-reported health-related quality of life in kindergarten children: psychometric properties of the Kiddy-KINDL. Public Health. 2015 Jun 4. pii: S0033-3506(15)00194-8. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.04.020. [Epub ahead of print]
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I. The measurement of social capital. Gac Sanit. 2015 Jan-Feb;29(1):62-4. doi: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2014.09.006.
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I, Almansa J, Witte C, Lange B, Kiese-Himmel C, Steinbüchel N. Pediatric Health-related Quality of Life: a structural equation modelling approach. PLoS One. 2014 Nov 21;9(11):e113166. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113166. eCollection 2014.
Villalonga-Olives E, von Steinbüchel N, Witte C, Kasten E, Kawachi I, Kiese-Himmel C. Health related quality of life of immigrant children: towards a new pattern in Germany? BMC Public Health. 2014, 14: 790.
Villalonga-Olives E, Kawachi I. The changing health status of economic migrants to the European Union in the aftermath of the economic crisis. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2014 May 23. pii: jech-2014-203869. doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-203869. [Epub ahead of print]
Mateu J, Ricci I, Villalonga-Olives E, Cabeza E. The impact of tourism on municipal solid waste generation: the case of Menorca Island. Waste Manag. 2013 Dec;33(12):2589-93. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.08.007. Epub 2013 Aug 31
Villalonga-Olives E, Marí-Dell’Olmo M, Gotsens M , Ramos M, Ramon J, Cabeza E, Borrell C. Analysis of inequalities in mortality in small areas: obstacles to overcome. Gac Sanit. 2013 Mar 25.
Villalonga-Olives E, Forero CG, Maydeu-Olivares A, Almansa J, Palacio-Vieira JA, Valderas JM, RajmilL, Alonso J. Mental health problems in adolescents and youths: the influence of parental mental health and environmental factors. Qual Life Res. 2013; 22(3): 613-622.
Palacio-Vieira JA, Villalonga-Olives E,Valderas JM, Herdman M, Alonso J, Rajmil L. Predictors of the use of healthcare services in children and adolescents in Spain. Int J Public Health. 2012 May 3.
Villalonga-Olives E, Forero CG, Erhard M, Palacio-Vieira JA, Valderas JM, Ferrer M, Rajmil L, Ravens-Sieberer U, Alonso J. Psychosomatic complaints in adolescents and youths: the influence of stressful life events and protective factors. Journal of Adolescent Health 2011. J Adolesc Health. 2011; 49(2): 199-205.
Almansa J, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Garin O, Chatterji S, Kostanjsek N, Alonso J, Valderas JM, Cieza A, Raggi A, Svestkova O, Burger H, Racca V, Vieta E, Leonardi M, Ferrer M, and the MHADIE Consortium (…,Villalonga-Olives E, Vilagut G,…). The international classfication of functioning, disability and health: development of capacity and performance scales. J Clin Epidemiol 2011; 64(12): 1400-1411.
Villalonga-Olives E, Rojas-Farreras S, Vilagut G, Palacio JA, Valderas JM, Herdman M, Ferrer M, Rajmil L, Alonso J. Gender differences in the impact of stressful life events on HRQoL of children and adolescents: results of the Spanish KIDSCREEN follow-up study. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2010; 8:71
Garin O, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Almansa J, Nieto M, Chatterji S, Vilagut G, Alonso J, Cieza A, Svestkova O, Burger H, Racca V, Francescutti C, Vieta E, Kostanjsek N, Raggi A, Leonardi M, Ferrer M, Consortium M (Villalonga-Olives E.). Validation of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS-2) in patients with chronic diseases. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2010 19;8(1):51.
Palacio-Vieira J, Villalonga-Olives E, Alonso J, Valderas JM, Herdman M, Berra S, Rajmil L, Spanish KIDSCREEN follow-up study: Protocol of the study, pilot test and participants’ representativeness. J Adolesc. 2010 Feb;33(1):227-31. J Adolescence. 2010; 33(1): 227-231.
Rajmil L, Palacio-Vieira JA, Herdman M, López-Aguilà S, Villalonga-Olives E, Valderas JM, Espallargues M, Alonso J. Effect on Health-related Quality of Life of changes in mental health status in children and adolescents . Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2009 Dec 23;7:103.
Palacio JA, Villalonga-Olives E, Valderas JM, Espallargues M, Herdman M, Berra S, Alonso J, Rajmil L. Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a population-based sample of children and adolescents after 3 years of follow-up. Qual Life Res. 2008: 17(10): 1207-1214.
Almansa J, Garin O, Chatterjii S, Vilagut G, Villalonga-Olives E, Alonso J, Valderas JM, Nieto Moreno M, Ayuso JL, Cieza A, Leonardi M, Raggi A, Svestkova O, Burger H, Racca V, Francescutti C, Vieta E, Ferrer M. FIC around the World. Europe. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF): Quantitative Measurement of Capacity and Performance. Newsletter on the WHO-FIC 2008;6:5-7
Villalonga-Olives E, Valderas JM, Palacio JA, Herdman M, Rajmil L, Alonso J. The adaptation into Spanish of the Coddington Life Events Scales (CLES). Qual Life Res. 2008; 17 (3): 447-452
Leonardi M et al. on behalf of MHADIE Consortium (Alonso J, Villalonga-Olives E). The definition of disability: what is in a name? The Lancet. 2006;368(9543): 1219-1221.
Books, monographic works and other publications:
Contributor to: L.J. Donaldson and P. Rutter. Donaldsons’ Essential Public Health. Fourth Edition. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd.
Villalonga-Olives E, Mateu J, Marí-Dell’Olmo M, Gotsens M, Ramon J, Ramos M, Cabeza E, Borrell C. Atlas of mortality of the Balearic Islands. ISBN 978 -84-09-09646-6.
Contributor to: Porta M, (Ed.). A Dictionary of Epidemiology. 6th. ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 2014. 376 p.
Villalonga-Olives E . The influence of multiple determinants on health related quality of life and mental health of a representative sample of Spanish adolescents and youths. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Directors: J. Alonso i L. Rajmil. Doctoral thesis.