Tessa Dekkers- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer at University of Twente
Tessa Dekkers
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer at University of Twente
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Introduction
Tessa Dekkers is a interdisciplinairy researcher and lecturer (Positive Psychology & Technology, University of Twente) with a PhD in Industrial Design Engineering (Delft University of Technology). Her interests include personalisation in eHealth, combining human-centred design and psychology, and geeking out over digital research methods.
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Publications (24)
Background
Decreasing aggression through stress reduction is an important part of forensic psychiatric treatment. DEEP is an experience-based virtual reality intervention that uses biofeedback to train diaphragmatic breathing and increase relaxation. Although DEEP has shown promising results in reducing stress and anxiety in students and adolescent...
Purpose: Effective antimicrobial use enhances care quality and combats antibiotic resistance. Yet, non-guideline factors influence potentially inappropriate prescribing. This study explores psycho-socio-organisational factors in antimicrobial prescribing as perceived by physicians across primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Methods: Adhering to P...
Background:
Current eHealth interventions are poorly adopted by people with low health literacy (LHL) as they often fail to meet their needs, skills, and preferences. A major reason for this poor adoption is the generic, one-size-fits-all approach taken by designers of these interventions, without addressing the needs, skills, and preferences of d...
The lack of adoption of eMental Health technologies by people with severe mental illness (SMI) might be explained by a mismatch between technology design and users’ skills, context and preferences. Co-design can optimize this fit, but populations labelled as ‘vulnerable’ are often excluded or misrepresented. The goal of this study is to gain insigh...
BACKGROUND
Lack of physical activity (PA) is a common issue with detrimental consequences for the health of people with severe mental illness (SMI). Existing PA interventions show suboptimal effects because they require substantial cognitive skills, including goal setting and writing, while cognitive deficits are common in this population. To bolst...
Background
Lack of physical activity is a common issue with detrimental consequences for the health of people with severe mental illness (SMI). Existing physical activity interventions show suboptimal effects as they require substantial cognitive skills, including goal setting and writing, whereas cognitive deficits are common in this population. T...
BACKGROUND
Current eHealth interventions are poorly adopted by people with low health literacy (LHL) as they often fail to meet their needs, skills, and preferences. A major reason for this poor adoption is the generic, one-size-fits-all approach taken by designers of these interventions, without addressing the needs, skills, and preferences of dis...
Background: Web-based patient education is increasingly offered to improve patients’ ability to learn, remember, and apply health information. Efficient organization, display, and structural design, that is, information architecture (IA), can support patients’ ability to independently use web-based patient education. However, the role of IA in the...
Background:
Improving communication and information services for people receiving a total joint (knee or hip) arthroplasty (TJA) depends on the differences in patient communication needs and personal characteristics.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to further examine individual differences in TJA patient preferences regarding communicatio...
Background:
The number of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and related treatment costs are rapidly increasing. Consequentially, more cost-effective and efficient strategies for the treatment of T2DM are needed. One such strategy is improving patients' self-management. As patients are more and more expected to self-manage their disease, it...
BACKGROUND
Web-based patient education is increasingly offered to improve patients’ ability to learn, remember, and apply health information. Efficient organization, display, and structural design, i.e. information architecture (IA), can support patients’ ability to independently use web-based patient education. However, the role of IA in the conte...
Preprint: Please refer to the published version found here: https://www.jmir.org/2021/3/e15846/
Objective
Tailored communication and information provision is expected to contribute to patient-centred care (PCC) in total hip arthroplasty (THA). In previous research, three subgroups of THA patients were identified that are similar in their clinical, psychological and communication characteristics. Preliminary subgroup-specific design guidelines...
Theories of behaviour change and health behaviour change interventions are most often evaluated in between-person designs. However, behaviour change theories apply to individuals not groups and behavioural interventions ultimately aim to achieve within-person rather than between-group change. Within-person methodology, such as N-of-1 (also known as...
Patient-centred care is becoming more important in healthcare. The success of patient-centred care can be assessed by exploring the patient experience through a patient journey map. As the number of outpatient surgeries is increasing, it is important to reveal the specific characteristics of this type of surgery. The perioperative patient experienc...
Design research in healthcare can be demanding. We report on eight challenges that designers and design researchers face when working on healthcare projects. We conducted four workshops with design researchers active in healthcare: six PhD candidates, a mixed group of thirteen design researchers, twelve design students, and eight design practitione...
Calls for a more tailored approach to the management of cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal diseases have been increasing. Although tailored care is a centuries-old concept, it is still unclear how it should be best practised. The current paper introduces two phenotype-based Dutch approaches to support tailored care. One approach focuses on patient...
Background:
Patients with orthopedic conditions frequently use the internet to find health information. Patient education that is distributed online may form an easily accessible, time- and cost-effective alternative to education delivered through traditional channels such as one-on-one consultations or booklets. However, no systematic evidence fo...
Objective:
To investigate whether and how orthopaedic surgeons tailor communication during medical consultations based on perceived patient characteristics.
Methods:
Seven orthopaedic surgeons were repeatedly interviewed following an approach based on ecological momentary assessment. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the eighty sh...
(in PhD by Design. Instant Journal #3. Exploring what the future holds for practice-based PhDs)
Product and service design play an important role in improving healthcare. It can lead to innovative hospital environments and medical devices, as well as new approaches to care and treatment. Successful implementation of new products and services requir...
Questions
Question (1)
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for (validated) tools or questionnaires to assess patients' preference for communication or interaction style in patient-provider communication. So far I've found papers on the patient-provider communication from a provider's point of view (e.g. Bertakis et al's 1991 work, Roter and Hall's papers). In these papers physicians' communication styles are assessed and categorized and an underlying assumption is that all patients would want the same interaction with their physician in order to be satisfied with care (for example, more talk about psychosocial issues).
However, in my recent observations I noted that patients seem to have different preferences for communication (which makes sense if you think about communication preferences from a broader perspective). Now I was hoping to formally test these differences between patients in interaction style/communication preferences but I can't seem to questionnaires to do so. I'm not looking for indirect measures inferred from demographics.
If you know any good papers/questionnaires, please let me know!
