PhD Dissertations 2024

Managing everyday life: exploring the essential components of reablement and user experiences

Ines Mouchaers

Are we walking or just talking? Enhancing relatonship-centered care in nursing homes

Johanna Elisabeth Regina Rutten

The place to be - Guiding the activation of a community to facilitate ageing in place

Katinka Elisabeth Pani-Harreman

The transition from home to a nursing home: the perspectives and experiences of older people with dementia, informal caregivers and professional caregivers

Lindsay Groenvynck

Undervalued & Unexplored  - Underpinning and Guiding Nursing Care in Activities of Daily Living

Svenja Cremer

Deprescribing in nursing home residents: when less is more?

Anne G. R. Visser

Identification of unmet care needs, treatment preferences and health economic implications to optimize disease management outcomes in the field of chronic inflammatory skin diseases

Damon Willems

The utilization of maternal health services in primary healthcare settings: findings from Indonesia

Herwansyah

Enhancing efficiency in epilepsy care: a health technology assessment perspective

Hoi Yau Chan

Together towards timely dementia diagnoses: the need for and value of shared decision-making

Iris Catherina Lodewijk Linden

Identifying and capturing intersectoral costs and benefits relating to sexual health

Lena Schnitzler

Exploring lisfranc injuries: From surgical choices to patient perspectives and economic implications

Noortje A.C. van den Boom

Health outcomes measurement for value-based healthcare: evidence from Saudi Arabia

Rawia Abdalla

Cardiovascular & pulmonary rehabilitation in lebanon

Rebecca Farah

Health economic evaluations of innovations in anterior segment eye surgery

Rob Simons

The role of European Union enlargement in mortality convergence across Europe

Rok Hrzic

Sacral neuromodulation for idiopathic slow-transit constipation

Stella Catharina Maria Heemskerk

Perceptions of quality and satisfaction with primary healthcare in Ukraine

Valentyna Anufriyeva

Optimizing quality of care in fracture patients at high risk of new fractures and patients with drug-resistant epilepsy eligible for resective brain surgery: Patient-centered care and economic assessments

Lieke Maas

Healthy schools, flourishing students: exploring the role of schools in shaping students’ lifestyle, health, and educational performance

Lisanne Vonk

Rethinking electronic health record implementation in Germany: A value-based health system approach

Tugce Schmitt

Assessment of comorbid depression in patients with diabetes: An analysis of instruments, costs, patterns of health care use and future utilization

Ute Linnenkamp

Moving beyond exercise oncology rehabilitation

Anouk Tanja Rudy Weemaes

Towards a shared understanding of chronic pain: patient–practitioner interaction in interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation

Baukje Beate Stinesen

Surgical site infections of orthopaedic implants

Daniël Janssen

Patient-specific instrumentation: shaping the future of knee arthroplasty?

Daphne Anne Laura Schoenmakers

Treatment of conservative therapy resistant calcifying tendinitis of the shoulder: Evaluation of minimal invasive and surgical treatment options

Freek Urbaan Verstraelen

Physical activity, participation and healthrelated quality of life in chronic fatigue  syndrome and multiple osteochondromas

Kuni Vergauwen

Unravelling the role of and the interrelation between somatosensory functioning and metabolic factors in chronic (postsurgical) osteoarthritis pain

Lotte Meert

Unlocking the transition: Prognostic modeling for chronic neck pain in primary care

Martine Janine Verwoerd

Biomarkers in cartilage repair and osteoarthritis: mass spectrometry (imaging) for the detection of possible diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers for cartilage repair and osteoarthritis development

Mirella Josephina Johanna Haartmans

Calcification and calcium-containing crystals in Osteoarthritis; a molecular exploration of a crystal clear connection

Roderick H.M.J. Stassen

Gait function in spinal cord injury: Assessing and improving gait function after spinal cord injury

Romina Willi

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in lumbar spine surgery

Ruud Droeghaag

Sacroiliac joint dysfunction: is fusion the solution?

Sem M. M. Hermans

Heterogeneity in individuals with knee osteoarthritis awaiting total knee arthroplasty and its impact on outcome from a biopsychosocial perspective

Sophie Vervullens
 

Stent-screw-Assisted Internal Fixation (SAIF):  Minimally-Invasive Vertebral Body Reconstruction in Extensive  Neoplastic and Osteoporotic Lesions

Alessandro Cianfoni

Outcomes of anterior cervical spine surgery: a valérization

Valérie Nicole Elise Schuermans

Work-related support for people with chronic diseases in clinical care: work in progress

Maarten Hendrikus Petrus Butink
 

Work-related support for people with chronic diseases in clinical care: work in progress

Maarten Hendrikus Petrus Butink

Development and evaluation of the 'Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students Primary School' (MASS-PS) intervention

Esther Karen Pijl

Mapping and optimising infection prevention and control in long-term and primary care: a systems perspective

Matthew Anthony Davies

Improving infectious disease control in care facilities: studies on infection prevention, antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19

Mitch van Hensbergen

Men and women’s participation in resolution of land based conflicts in Mt. Elgon Region, Kenya

Benson Mutuku Muthama

Mapping and optimising infection prevention and control in long-term and primary care: a systems perspective

Famke Houben
 

Unravelling pandemic drivers: whole genome sequencing and routinely collected data is key in analyzing COVID-19 transmission and management

Koen Martin Frederik Gorgels

Connections that count: Unraveling the impact of social networks on health and the role in pandemic preparedness

Lisanne Catherina Johanna Steijvers

Imaging in perinatal death: The role of mri in fetal autopsy; Future or fiction?

Maud P.M. Tijssen

Postmortem computed tomography and imaging-guided biopsy: Exploring applications and limitations in clinical practice

Max Guillaume Mentink
 

Unravelling vaccination behaviour: observational and experimental studies

Veja Widdershoven

Income inequality and socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ health and health-behavior in post-Communist countries of Europe

Armen Torchyan

Impact of maternal malnutrition on adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes

Deepa Ravi

The epidemiology of tinnitus in Italy and Europe: Burden, risk factors, and implications for public health

Carlotta Micaela Jarach

Epidemiology and determinants of obesity in Italy and Europe before and after the Covid-19 era

Chiara Stival

Digital self-management support for patients with esophageal cancer

Daniëlle J. M. Adriaans

Optimization of care for patients with superficial basal cell carcinoma

Lieke C. J. van Delft

Critical appraisal of sports genetics: With an emphasis on endurance sports

Magdalena Johanna Schellenberg

Psychosocial environment during the perinatal period and its adverse impact on mother and child health

Prafulla Shriyan

Advancing quality of recovery: truncal fascial plane blocks in perioperative care

Renee J. C. van den Broek

ABCC: Easy as 1-2-3? Studying the implementation of a digital innovation in Dutch general practices

Danny Claessens

Optimizing person-centered chronic care: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Jeroen R. J. H. Gruiskens

Deprescribing in nursing home residents: when less is more?

Anne G. R. Visser

ABCC: Easy as 1-2-3? Studying the implementation of a digital innovation in Dutch general practices

Danny Claessens

Optimizing person-centered chronic care: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Jeroen R. J. H. Gruiskens

An exploration of factors influencing cannabis use among Andalusian adolescents

María del Carmen Torrejón Guirado

Ehealth intervention to optimize adherence in late adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes: content development and preparing adoption

Hanan AlBurno

New insights into the diagnostic workup of oropharyngeal dysphagia in head and neck cancer patients: Integration of fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing and patient-reported outcome measures for clinical decision making

Sorina R. Simon

From policy to practice: how tobacco taxation affects smoking behaviour

Cloé Geboers
 

Bridging the age gap: impact of age on treatment, survival and patient outcomes in older patients with cancer

Doris Lijsbeth van Abbema

Understanding implementation of whole-school health promotion

Gerjanne Vennegoor

Cyclic evaluation of web-based public health interventions

Gido Metz

Guideline development on healthcare related testing

Margaretha Klaasje Tuut

Postpartum depression in the UAE: insights, challenges, and pathways to support

Nivine Hanach

From dialogue to decision: Exploring medical options, benefits and harms, and patient preferences in different clinical contexts

Romy Richter

Patient involvement as a two-way street: How patients can be prepared for and benefit from involvement in healthcare professionals’ training

Sjim Willem Adriaan Romme

My, your or our decision? Exploring, understanding, and optimizing the decision-making process for couples at risk of transmitting a genetic disease to their offspring

Yil Severijns