Projects
Innovative strategies to improve parental food choices and thus create a healthier home food environment for children. Ghent University
This innovative project will identify critical individual and environmental determinants of parental
food choices by focus groups, test innovative ways ((i.e., mHealth, supermarket nudges and
healthy meal boxes) to influence them and identify facilitators and barriers by process evaluation. We target both lower and higher SES households (SES as moderator).
Culture, social structure, and the self: Explorations into varieties of cultural fit in self-construal, changes therein, and the predictors and outcomes thereof KU Leuven
People's self-construals—how individuals define themselves and interact with others—demonstrate systematic cultural differences (Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Singelis, 1994; Vignoles et al., 2016). Such differences stem not only from ethnic-cultural factors but are also influenced by social structures (e.g., social stratification, labour relations, urbanisation, gender roles, etc.), resulting in distinct self patterns that prevail among ...
The effectiveness of social policy targeted at households with disabled children in Flanders: does the existing set of social policies succeed in reducing the poverty risk of disabled children? University of Antwerp
Uncovering molecular mechanisms underlying the interaction between environment and health. Hasselt University
Development of Playful Technology to Support Breastfeeding KU Leuven
Breastfeeding brings many benefits for parents, children, and wider society. However, the process is often described as challenging. Parents' ability to initiate and continue breastfeeding is determined by a number of factors, not all of which are within the control of parents. Factors such as birth complications, medical conditions of mother or child, and low socioeconomic status can have detrimental effects on breastfeeding. Other factors, ...
To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space. University of Antwerp
QAPICHE: QuAlity of life in Patients wIth CHronic diseasE Ghent University
Chronic disease is associated with a substantial burden both for the patient and their environment. The QAPICHE study provides a profound insight into the Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of chronically ill patients, by comparing patient groups and investigating the determinants, accounting
for multimorbidity and socioeconomic status. Furthermore, the interrelation between patients’ HRQoL and informal caregivers’ HRQoL is ...