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"Inclusive Palliative Care": a project aiming optimal palliative care for benefit of people with physical or mental disabilities. University of Antwerp

Johan Wens
Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA)
This small project aims to examine if disabled people die a "good death". This objective only is possible on condition that a professional framework on care for these vulnerable people exists. However, it seems that care professionals need a lot of support and guidance in the palliative care provision to this specific desired population. Besides assessment of the dying quality, specific needs will be inquired by qualitative research methodology ...

Substance Use and Mental Health care InTegration, a study of service networks in mental health and substance use disorders in Belgium, their accessibility, and the user's needs (SUMHIT) Ghent University

Wouter Vanderplasschen, Freya Vander Laenen
Department of Special Needs Education, Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law

The main objective of SUMHIT is to examine and assess the place of people who use drugs in the field of mental health care, the availability of generic mental health care for people with substance-use disorders, and the capacity of both generic mental health care and specialised substance-use care sectors to collaborate within the framework of the service networks that have been established in Belgium since 2010. The project addresses ...

An institutional approach to mental health and the mental health care use of unemployed people in Europe: Cross-national comparative research into the role of policies and social norms  Ghent University

Piet Bracke
Department of Sociology

It is widely known that the unemployed have a high risk of mental health problems, however, only recently has attention been paid to their mental health care use. My PhD research shows that mental health care use by the unemployed is often higher than would be expected based on their need for care. In a European context of high variation in unemployment, labor-market policies, and health care expenditure, it is crucial to understand whether, ...

School-based mental health care for refugee minors. An analysis of refugee youth well-being at school and the mixed-method exploration of outcomes and processes of post-trauma reconstruction in school-based mental health intervention. KU Leuven

Lucia De Haene
School Psychology and Development in Context, Parenting and Special Education

In 2019, 26 million people fled their home countries pursuing safety from war, conflict and persecution, with minors making up 40 percent of the refugee population world-wide (UNHCR, 2020). Studies consistently reveal that stressors related to forced migration and resettlement put children at an increased risk for a broad range of psychosocial and mental health difficulties (Hodes & Vostanis, 2019). Mental health care forms a pivotal part ...

Improving access to mental health care and mental health literacy Ghent University

Ann Buysse, Alexis Dewaele
Department of Experimental clinical and health psychology

MentALLY's strategic aim is to gather the necessary empirical evidence to accelerate the evolution towards a European mental healthcare that provides effective mental health treatment to all adults who are in need. A carefully designed dissemination and implementation strategy translates the empirical evidence to strengthen existing networks and improve existing practices. MentAlly has three main objectives:

1. To gather the necessary ...

The implementation of Digital Mobile Mental Health in clinical care pathways: Towards person-centered care in psychiatry KU Leuven

Inez Germeys
Contextual Psychiatry, Centre for Sociological Research

The overarching aim of IMMERSE (Implementing Mobile MEntal health Recording Strategy for Europe) is to advance the transformation of mental health care in Europe intro true person-centered care, focused on the needs of each individual seeking help for mental health problems, while giving them an active role in their treatment process and decision-making. In order to do so, IMMERSE has
identified the Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM), ...

Care for older patients with combined severe mental and physical illness:development, implementation and evaluation of a transmural care pathway. KU Leuven

Mieke Vermandere
Academic Center for General Practice
More than two-third of elderly patients attending psychiatric services have at least one physical illness, and many have at least two. Effective management of multimorbidity requires integration of physical and mental healthcare. Geriatric co-management programs might be a potentially (cost-)effective model for collaborative care in joint geriatric/gerontopsychiatric wards, and for home-based multidisciplinary psychiatric care services. The aim ...

The Milestone Project: Managing the Link and Strengthening Transition from Child to Adult Mental Health Care. KU Leuven

Bie Tremmery
Developmental Psychiatry

Transition to adulthood is the period of onset of most of the serious mental disorders that disable or kill in adult life. Current service configuration of distinct Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health (AMHS) Services is considered the weakest link where the care pathway should be most robust. Transition-related discontinuity of care is a major socioeconomic and societal challenge for the EU. The MILESTONE ...

Matching needs and treatment possibilities in Flemish mental health care. University of Antwerp

Geert Dom
Primary and interdisciplinary care Antwerp (ELIZA), Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI)
Psychiatric disorders and psychosocial complaints are highly prevalent and have large personal and societal impacts. Flemish mental health care has changed dramatically over the past few years. How can we provide these patients with the best possible care? In this project, we will develop a valid methodology to inventory the psychiatric and psychosocial needs in society. In addition, we would like to get a better view on what kind of mental ...

Development of holistic mental health care for middle-aged and old age people in Uganda. KU Leuven

Michel Probst
Research Group for Adapted Physical Activity and Psychomotor Rehabilitation

Despite the fact that Uganda has an enabling national mental health policy framework, there are clear gaps in mental health service delivery as less than 1% of the health budget is spent on mental health.
Mental health services in Uganda are poorly resourced and treatment rates for people with mental dis-orders remain low, with treatment gaps over 90%. While The Government of the Republic of Uganda comprehensively developed the National ...