Projects
Prospective associations between sedentary behaviour, physical activity, physical fitness and metabolic risk in Flemish adult men and women. Ghent University
The present research project focuses on the longitudinal or prospective analysis of physical (in)activity, physical fitness and its components, and some health-related parameters in Flemish adults. Besides the investigation of the validity of a continuous metabolic risk score, relationship with lifestyle behavior and several health-related fitness components will be examined.
The MOTHERMOUSE project: Behavioral and psychoendocrinological rodent studies on the importance of early maternal bonding for adult social and cognitive functioning KU Leuven
Children’s attachment to parental caregivers plays a central role in the etiology of various social and cognitive defects. Since it is ethically inappropriate to involve human infants in invasive experimental research on attachment, the present application proposes experiments in laboratory mice to investigate the biopsychological and psychoendocrinological mechanisms of parent-infant bonding and adult social and cognitive performance. We ...
Precious Prompts: developing an innovative just-in-time adaptive prompt-based intervention aimed at interrupting prolonged bouts of sedentary behavior in older adults Ghent University
Considering the rapid growth of the global aging population, healthy aging has become a key priority of the World Health Organization. Healthy aging can be promoted by targeting health behaviors, such as sedentary behavior. A promising way to disrupt sedentary behavior, is to bring this automatic behavior and its context into conscious awareness by providing point-of-choice prompts to stand or move. However, in previous prompt-based ...
Stand Up, Stay Top - a theory-based mHealth intervention aimed at the reduction of sedentary behavior in older adults Ghent University
The population of older adults is expected to increase considerably in the coming decades. This increase poses a major public health challenge, as aging is associated with a reduction in physical and cognitive functioning. The decline impedes older adults to live independently, and to maintain their quality-of-life. As a result, the demand for health care will rise dramatically. Emerging evidence shows that sedentary behavior contributes to ...
INTERPLAY WITHIN THE DAY: optimizing intra-day glucose control by intervening on the day-to-day 24-hour movement behavior patterns in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Ghent University
Only 24.9% of the Belgian adults (25-50 years) with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) achieve the glycemic target. This can be explained by the challenging day-to-day diabetes management which places a substantial burden on this population. However, a tight glucose control is fundamental in order to prevent the development of acute and chronic complications. Despite the added value of continue glucose monitors to glucose control, optimizing ...
What works for whom, under which circumstances and how: opening the black box of mHealth interventions to reduce older adults’ sedentary behavior Ghent University
With the increasing number of older adults in the society, healthy aging has become a public health priority. Targeting older adults’ sedentary behavior seems to be a promising strategy to foster healthy aging. Unfortunately, only a limited number of mobile health (mHealth) interventions exist to reduce sedentary behavior in older adults. Nevertheless, recent evidence has shown that mHealth interventions are more effective in reducing ...
INTERPLAY WITHIN THE DAY: optimizing intra-day glucose control by intervening on the day-to-day 24-hour movement behavior patterns in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus. University of Antwerp
Behavioural change based on the self-categorisation theory: promotion of physical activity among sedentary older adults (intervention study among older adults on intrinsic and social determinants of physical activity and health-related behaviour). KU Leuven
Development and evaluation of an intervention to improve physical activity, sleep and sedentary behaviour among adults using smart wearables  Ghent University
High levels of physical activity, low sedentary behaviour and a sleep duration of 7-8 hours are associated with beneficial health outcomes. When aiming to promote these behaviours, they should be studied and promoted together, since a change in the duration of one behaviour affects the duration of another. These behaviours have until now, however, mostly been studied and intervened upon in isolation. This project proposes to study 24-hour ...