Costs of mental health care resource use in people with obesity: A systematic review

Nienke de Graef; Arianna Morris Gouveia; Aggie Paulus; Inge van der Putten; Emma Frew; Irina Pokhilenko

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333123

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Costs of mental health care resource use in people with obesity: A systematic review

Nienke de Graef,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3019-3092

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Arianna Morris Gouveia,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics Unit, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, The United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9611-6760

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Aggie Paulus,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Inge van der Putten,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Emma Frew,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Economics of Obesity, Health Economics Unit, School of Health Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, The United Kingdom
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Irina Pokhilenko

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: i.pokhilenko@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Economics of Obesity, Health Economics Unit, School of Health Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, The United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6390-2851

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Costs of mental health care resource use in people with obesity: A systematic review

Nienke de Graef,
Arianna Morris Gouveia,
Aggie Paulus,
Inge van der Putten,
Emma Frew,
Irina Pokhilenko

Published: October 8, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333123

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