Projects
Can adolescents maximize the benefits of social media while limiting the consequences for poor sleep? A theory-driven and person-centered examination of qualitatively different motivations for social media use. Ghent University
The number of sleep problems among adolescents is alarmingly high and even seems to have intensified over the past decades. Excessive social media use is often blamed for this. Yet, the (little) empirical research to support this claim is characterized by conceptual and methodological shortcomings. Departing from a theory-driven and person-specific approach, the overall aim of this project is to advance the emerging literature on adolescents’ ...
Developing and implementing a person-centered integrated care model in co-creation with and for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: the PICCOLO project KU Leuven
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis is a poorly known, rare and complex disease requirig long-term care. Patient advocay organizations and healthcare professionals consider alleviating patients' unmet support needs and improving value-based care priorities for research and clinical care. The PICCOLO-porject will involve patients as co-investigators and aims to develop and implement a person-centered integrated care model for and with patients ...
Person-centered care and personhood: How to understand, access, record and integrate personhood in care context for person with high support needs who cannot verbally express themselves KU Leuven
Person-centered care has been on the health care agenda for several decades. To practice person-centered care it is important to have a clear picture of who a person is, or to put it differently, to recognize his/her personhood. Personhood is ensured by the presence of the other and is therefore something essentially social. However, it is difficult to know the personhood of people with high support needs, who have limited symbolic awareness ...
The implementation of Digital Mobile Mental Health in clinical care pathways: Towards person-centered care in psychiatry KU Leuven
The overarching aim of IMMERSE (Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe) is to advance the transformation of mental health care in Europe intro true person-centered care, focused on the needs of each individual seeking help for mental health problems, while giving them an active role in their treatment process and decision-making. In order to do so, IMMERSE has
identified the Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM), ...
IMMERSE The implementation of Digital Mobile Mental Health in clinical care pathways: Towards person-centered care in psychiatry KU Leuven
An e-care tool for integration of person-centered care of people living with dementia Karel De Grote Hogeschool
The impact of person-centered care by means of Dementia Care Mapping on the wellbeing of residents with dementia and their caregivers in Flemisch nursing homes. KU Leuven
Rethinking IPF care: charting the course to person-centred integrated care for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis together with patients and healthcare professionals KU Leuven
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare lung disease that has a crude impact on a person's ability to breathe freely due to the progressive accumulation of scar tissue which destructs lung tissue. As a result, patients face debilitating symptoms such as breathlessness and fatigue, and are given a poor prognosis of two to five years after diagnosis if left untreated. Fortunately, there are two anti-fibrotic drugs available that ...