CAPHRI PhD Dissertations 2025

Exploring Shared Decision Making in Swiss Acute Psychiatric Care

Caroline Gurtner

Keep on learning! Fostering continuous learning and improvement in long-term nursing care

Elisabeth Aldegonda van Lierop

Fair and meaningful comparison of inpatient fall rates in acute care hospitals

Niklaus Stefan Bernet

To the roots: Green Care Farms as long-term care setting for people living with Dementia

Katharina Rosteius

Reablement and the philosophy’s goal: paving the way for reablement in the Netherlands using global insights

Lise Buma

Moving towards culture change: Insights into relocating nursing home residents with dementia to innovative living arrangements

Mara Brouwers

Same client, different care? Investigating practice variation in home care needs assessment

Jose van Dorst

Acute care demands in older adults: Predicting outcomes, evaluating quality and optimising care

Marleen van der Velde

Collective health, individual lives: utilizing routine data in a population health management approach for type 2 diabetes

Rose Julie Geurten

All that glitters isn’t gold: Examining how and why organizations collaborate to address wicked problems in healthcare

Robin E. J. Peeters

Defining and professionalising the role of Parkinson nurses: competency development for personalised Parkinson’s care

Marlena van Munster

Exploring health insurance literacy in the Netherlands: citizens' skills and needs in choosing a health insurance policy

Laurens Holst

Which route to take? Supporting the decision-making process of curatively treated breast cancer patients concerning their aftercare trajectory

Linda Klaassen

Pharmaceutical policies in post-communist Albania

Dajana Roshi

Unlocking value in healthcare: barriers and success factors in the introduction of value-based payment models in the Dutch healthcare system

Diogo Luis Lopes Leao

Health expenditures, outcomes, and efficiency in the EU

Joseph Piscopo

Capturing and measuring the wider health impacts and associated social value of sustainable investment in public health

Kathryn Ashton

Capacity-building for evidence-informed practice: Advancing local evidence ecosystems in Germany’s public health service

Laura Arnold

Public Health Workforce Development and Professionalization The Implications for Ukraine

Olga Gershuni

The complexity of multi-hospital oncology networks: A widely used and promising structure without a blueprint

Roos van der Ven

A health economic evaluation guideline in low- and middle-income countries: a case study from Lebanon

Caroline Daccache

Health outcomes and health service use during armed conflicts: a comparison of conflict and non-conflict areas in Northern Nigeria

Olabayo A.R. Ojeleke

Complexity of healthcare and medical incidents

Désirée Klemann

Public support for solidarity in healthcare financing in the netherlands: Insights from the perspective of the insured

Marloes Meijer

Organising the right care in the right place. Exploring healthcare relocation in the Netherlands from multiple perspectives

Laura Damen

Skin integration for better acceptance of hearing implants

Marc van Hoof

Secondary shoulder surgery in brachial plexus birth palsy patients: Long term results and novel insights

Stijn de Joode

Improving sleep quality in nurses who work irregular shifts: necessity and first steps towards intervention

Uthman Albakri

From struggle to strength: Post-COVID rehabilitation

Carlijn Wiertz

The pathway to optimal ankle replacement surgery: The pursuit of solutions

Joris Hermus

Warm-up! Prehabilitation in orthopedic patients

Pascale Gränicher

Resistance training and muscle-brain crosstalk: implications for cognitive decline in aging and spinal cord injury

Wouter Vints

Walking with the clubfoot child: evolution of clubfoot care in the Netherlands

Arnold Besselaar

The spectrum of COVID-19 epidemiology: from public health alarm state to long-term struggle

Demi Pagen

Have a little faith: Validating student voices in vocational education

Esther M. A. Geurts

Implementing home-based sexual health care in public health: An evidence-based integrated care approach for ending the HIV epidemic

Hanneke Goense

Sight Under Siege: understanding corneal infections and ccular health

Judith Veugen

Local context as compass: public health care in Maastricht 1900-1940

Lucie Bastiaens

Beyond the red lights: understanding the STI/HIV burden and sexual healthcare needs of home-based and migrant sex workers

Charlotte Peters

The impact of neighborhood environments on lifestyle, socioeconomic health disparities, and cardiovascular disease

Jeffrey Alexander Chan

Co-construction of reliable knowledge, good care and profit-making: the ambivalent role of private clinics in Russian healthcare

Mariia Denisova

Modern citizens, unmodern others: Epistemic and everyday governance of difference in dutch migrant integration practices

Nadine Blankvoort

A mixed-methods investigation of the trajectories of patient-reported functional mobility in people with Parkinson's disease

Anne-Marie Hanff

Improving the reproducibility and reporting quality of search strategies in biomedical systematic reviews

Melissa Lyle Rethlefsen

The Presentation, Use and Identification of Retracted Publications in the Health Sciences

Caitlin Bakker

Optimization of Diagnosis and Conservative Treatment of Intermittent Claudication in the Netherlands

David Hageman

Electronic consultations between general practitioners and hospital specialists: Shifting expertise, not patients

Ken Peeters

Tailored self-management support for people living with COPD

Maarten Voorhaar

Measuring the potential impact of immunisation on demand for antibiotics and infectious disease-related out-of-pocket expenditure in India

Habib Hasan Farooqui

Clinical research in the era of data science

Maike Imkamp

The association between sedentary behavior and obesity, during pregnancy and early childhood: physical activity and health

Yamuna Ana

Early years matter: Contextual factors shaping caregiving and child development in urban poor neighbourhoods of Bangalore, India

Eunice Lobo

Which route to take? Supporting the decision-making process of curatively treated breast cancer patients concerning their aftercare trajectory

Linda Klaassen

Improving uptake of Prevention of Mother to-Child Transmission services in Sudan

Ibrahim Elsiddig Elsheikh Ahmed Badr

From tobacco policy to person: multilevel influences on smoking cessation

Nikita Lee Poole

Using stepped care to strategically organize ehealth and promote self-care: experiences from public sexual health care in the Netherlands

Filippo Zimbile

Learning shared decision making in postgraduate medical education

Anouk Baghus

Understanding health inequalities among vulnerable populations in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Dieudonné Bwirire Lwabauma

Exposure to Inter-Parental Violence and Child Development

Chitegetse Archangela Minanago

Rethinking mindfulness in health promotion: from trait to targeting eating

Christian Preissner

Metabolic syndrome and its risk factors among early adolescents in Khartoum State, Sudan

Fatima Awad Elkarim Elfaki Mohamed

The midwife as influencing factor in clinical decision-making

Lianne Zondag

Unraveling how healthcare professionals perceive antibiotic resistance: From perceptions to practice

Lieve Vonken

A tailored mHealth intervention for improving antenatal care seeking and its determinants among pregnant adolescent girls and young women in South Africa

Ronel Sewpaul