CAPHRI PhD Dissertations 2024
Explore all PhD dissertations completed at CAPHRI in 2024, showcasing the breadth and depth of research within our institute. The dissertations are organized by research line, reflecting CAPHRI’s approach to public health and primary care. In 2024, CAPHRI proudly supported 72 successful PhD defences.
Browse the dissertations from 2024 by research line:
Ageing and Long-Term Care
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
Creating Value-Based Health Care
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
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
Functioning, Participation and Rehabilitation
Towards a shared understanding of chronic pain: patient–practitioner interaction in interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation
Baukje Beate Stinesen
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
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
Health Inequities and Societal Participation
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
Optimising Patient Care
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
Promoting Health & Personalised Care
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
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