News on health and wellbeing
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Neurologist Dr. Guus Schoonman appointed endowed Professor 'Digital communication in clinical practice'
21st April 2023Neurologist and researcher Guus Schoonman has been appointed endowed Professor at the chair 'Digital communication in clinical practice' at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, effective May 1. This chair was established in collaboration with the Elisabeth-Tweesteden Hospital (ETZ)Tilburg. Schoonman will conduct research on the role and added value of digital tools in communication between the patient and the healthcare provider.
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Patrick Vriens: achieving sensible care with better soft skills doctors and smart apps
27th January 2023Sensible care means giving the right care to the right patient at the right time. That can lead to very different decisions for different people in the same situation. It is important that doctors talk to their patients and make the decision together. In doing so, quality of life is the guiding principle and expectation management is the key to the conversation. Endowed Professor and surgeon Patrick Vriens elaborates on this topic in his inaugural speech on Feb. 3.
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Confidence of the unvaccinated in authorities already very low before start COVID-19 vaccinations
13th July 2022Those who remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 already had significantly less confidence in government authorities before the start of the vaccination campaign than people who did get a jab. However, unvaccinated people and the unvaccinated who are still undecided do not have the same thoughts and opinions on COVID-19 and vaccinations.
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Tailored risk information helps patients with cancer
04th July 2022Patients with cancer have a great need for tailored information based on figures and statistics on, for example, survival, treatment outcomes and risks of side effects. This is the outcome of Ruben Vromans' doctoral thesis, for which he will receive his doctorate on 8 July.
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Paper Max Pachali, Arjen van Lin and Bart Bronnenberg accepted for publication at Marketing Science
25th May 2022The paper from Max Pachali, Arjen van Lin, and Bart Bronnenberg titled: EXPRESS: How Do Nutritional Warning Labels Affect Prices? (co-authored with Marco Kotschedoff at KULeuven and Erica van Herpen at Wageningen University) has been accepted for publication at Marketing Science.
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Collaboration in networks welfare sector does not get off the ground enough
09th May 2022Networks that operate within the implementation of the Wmo 2015 (Social Support Act) succeed in connecting important organizations. At the same time, they have limited success in creating an integrated offer.
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Contact with peers helps victims to reinvent themselves
17th February 2022Social support is of great importance to victims of crime, for example, but exactly how that support works was still unclear. With support from the Dutch Victim Support Network (Slachtofferhulp Nederland), Pien van de Ven therefore investigated the role of both support from the social environment and from fellow-sufferers in dealing with a victim experience.
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European Research Council awards TILT researchers grant to develop safer mental health apps
08th February 2022The European Research Council has awarded a so-called Proof of Concept Grant worth 150,000 euros to Prof. Linnet Taylor and Dr. Tineke Broer in order to develop a new rating system for app safety.
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COVID-19 pandemic aggravates PTSD symptoms, anxiety and depression symptoms among victims
25th January 2022Adults victimized by physical violence, accidents and serious threats during the COVID-19 pandemic more often suffer from severe PTSD symptoms, anxiety and depression symptoms than adults victimised before this pandemic. They also more often suffer from general mental health problems and lower coping self-efficacy levels.
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Shifting the starting point of the deductible in healthcare insurance reduces healthcare costs
01st July 2021Under the Dutch Healthcare Insurance Act (Zorgverzekeringswet), everyone faces a mandatory deductible: people have to pay the first € 385 (in 2020) of their healthcare costs out of their own pocket. The purpose of the deductible is to make insured individuals aware of the costs of healthcare by having them pay some of these costs themselves. However, this deductible has a number of drawbacks. Having studied these as part of her PhD research, Minke Remmerswaal shows that other forms of cost-sharing schemes, such as shifted deductibles and co-insurance rates, are more effective. On July 2, she will defend her PhD thesis at Tilburg University.
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Data science helps to organize care for severe psychiatric patients more efficiently
22nd April 2021The complexity of problems that people with severe psychiatric conditions, such as psychoses, fase, makes the care for these patients difficult to design. Especially combined with long waiting lists and shortages of personnel in menthal healthcare. Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) can help to organize mental healthcare more efficiently, is evident Sascha Kwakernaak's docoral research, which she defends on April 30 at Tilburg University.
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Tilburg University and CZ pool expertise in Healthcare System Knowledge Institute
16th March 2021Tilburg University (specifically, the Tilburg School of Economics and Management) and healthcare insurer CZ will be working together in the Healthcare System Knowledge Institute/Academic Collaborative Center for the purpose of gathering and creating knowledge of healthcare systems, the Dutch system in particular. To many parties such knowledge is indispensable for outlining a well-substantiated policy. On March 18, 2021, Tilburg University and CZ signed an agreement formalizing their collaboration.
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Mental health Dutch population reasonably stable despite Covid-19 crisis
03rd March 2021At the end of 2020 around 17% of the adult population in the Netherlands was suffering from mild to severe feelings of fear and depression. In addition around 6% reported severe symptoms of fear and depression. But these percentages dit not differ from those of 2018 and 2019, a new scientific study by CentERdata, Tilburg University and Nivel has shown.
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Majority of managers reluctant to hire applicants with mental health problems
15th January 2021A new Tranzo survey of 670 executives in all Dutch sectors shows that a majority (64%) is reluctant to hire applicants with mental health problems. In addition, one in three managers would not quickly hire an employee who has ever had mental health problems, even if those problems are no longer an issue. The publication will soon be published in the renowned journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM).
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Large increase in loneliness but small decrease in mental health problems after the COVID-19 outbreak
11th January 2021Emotional loneliness among Dutch adults increased in the summer of 2020, compared to loneliness in November 2019 (from 18% to 25%). Among adults who were lonely after the COVID-19 outbreak but not lonely before the outbreak, the prevalence of mild to severe anxiety and depression symptoms also increased (from 18% versus 26%).
