dr. Ruben Vromans

Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. My research focuses on risk and data communication in healthcare. More specifically, I study (1) how people think about health risks and how those thoughts influence their health-related decisions and behavior, and (2) how healthcare professionals can best communicate such complex risk information in order to help people make sense of their personalized health risks data and act in ways that benefit their health.

Expertise

• Risk Communication
• Statistics Communication
• Personalization
• Health Communication
• Cancer
• Trauma

Courses

• Research Seminar for Premaster CIS
• Risk Communication
• Communication and Influencing

Collaboration

• Data2Person
• Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL)
• Netherlands Cancer Institute 
• TopZorg Trauma / Elisabeth Twee-Steden Hospital
• Stichting Kanker.nl

Highlights

I am a board member of the Statistics Communication section of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research.

Top publications

1. Predicting and comparing COVID-19 risk perceptions across the Netherl…

   Vromans, R., Linn, A. J., Maru, N., Pabian, S., Krahmer, E., Guidry, J. P. D., Perrin, P. B., & Bol, N. (2023). Predicting and comparing COVID-19 risk perceptions across the Netherlands and Belgium: A cross-sectional survey among university students. PLOS ONE, [e0277417].

2. Need for numbers: Assessing cancer survivors’ needs for personalized …

   Vromans, R., Hommes, S., Clouth, F., Lo-Fo-Wong, D., Verbeek, X., van de Poll, L., Pauws, S., & Krahmer, E. (2022). Need for numbers: Assessing cancer survivors’ needs for personalized and generic statistical information. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 22, [260].

3. Effects of comparative information when communicating personalized ri…

   Vromans, R., Pauws, S., van de Poll, L., & Krahmer, E. (2022). Effects of comparative information when communicating personalized risks of treatment outcomes: An experimental study. Journal of Risk Research, 26(3), 324-343 .

4. Communication, perception, and use of personalized side-effect risks …

   Vromans, R., Tillier, C., Pauws, S., van der Poel, H., Van De Poll-franse, L., & Krahmer, E. (2022). Communication, perception, and use of personalized side-effect risks in prostate cancer treatment-decision making: An observational and interview study. Patient Education and Counseling, 105(8), 2731-2739.

5. Exploring cancer survivor needs and preferences for communicating per…

   Vromans, R., van Eenbergen, M., Geleijnse, G., Pauws, S., van de Poll-Franse, L., & Krahmer, E. (2021). Exploring cancer survivor needs and preferences for communicating personalized cancer statistics from registry data: Qualitative multimethod study. JMIR Cancer , 7(4), [e25659].