Projects
SWVG-EF43 Adapted living and supportive care. KU Leuven
In 2017, the Flemish government launched two calls directed at the mental health networks (GGZ) for adults with regard to Function 5: āSpecific types of housing and housing supportā.
The two calls focused on āSpecific forms of housing for young adults with mental health problemsā and āOutreaching care for persons with mental health problems avoiding care and who live in social housingā.
Eleven projects have been set up since ...
'Protocol 3 Elderly care' concerns a call for action projects for alternative and supporting care services. KU Leuven
Development, implementation and evaluation of an intervention supporting mobile palliative supportteams to empower healthcare professionals in providing palliative care for hospitalized patients KU Leuven
According to the Palliative Care Indicator Tool (PICT), a practical measurement tool for early identification of palliative patients, 19% of patients hospitalized on non-specialized hospital wards are palliative. Additionally, societal changes such as an aging population, an increase in the number of chronically ill people and evolving technologies are predicted to further increase the need for palliative care in the upcoming years. These ...
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care. University of Antwerp
Supporting the development of self-regulation in infants: a promising strategy in preventive mental health care Ghent University
A major challenge of the newborn child is to learn to regulate internal states (physiological, emotional, and cognitive) and behavior. The childās self-regulation stems from successful co-regulation between the baby and its caregiver(s) and constitutes the basis of mental health. Regulation problems (RP) in early childhood are the seeds for emergent developmental psychopathology and for persistent mental health problems later in life. Given ...
The role of decision support in enabling and supporting shared decision making in primary care KU Leuven
More than a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) envisioned that by now, the vast majority of healthcare related decisions and choices would be supported by accurate, up-to-date and timely information. This goal was part of a larger aim to promote evidence-based healthcare across the country. To enable this vision, learning health systems were suggested as a substrate to disseminate and implement this information or evidence. Clinical ...
Reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in acutely ill children: supporting clinical management in ambulatory care KU Leuven
The doctoral thesis will consist of an epidemiological study, a systematic review, and a prospective field study including both quantitative and qualitative research. As the field study will make up the bulk of the thesis, it will be explained in more depth in the following paragraphs. Infections are prevalent in children and can usually be treated safely in an ambulatory setting without antibiotics. However, antibiotics are very frequently ...
Supporting, monitoring and evaluation of the Belgian Sexual Assault Care Centres - 2021 Ghent University
The Belgian Sexual Assault Care centres (SACC) offer holstic care (= psychosocial, medical and forensic care and if desirec also law enforcement and judicial follow-up) to victims of sexual violence in Belgium. The SACCs are being gradually scaled up from 3 to 6 SACCs in 2021 and the necessary preparations are being done to ensure a full roll-out to having 1 SACC per judicial district by 2023. Prof Keygnaert and her team offer scientific ...