Research group Person-centered mental health in primary care

Achievements

• Improving care for patients with mental health problems in primary care

  We improve the care for patient with mental health problems in primary care by:

  1. initiating research projects on depressive symptoms and anxiety
  2. establishing a multidisciplinary mental health care and research network (i.e. "living lab Mental Health Care")
  3. developing and validating scalable e-health interventions for mental health in primary care

• Improving care for patients with persistent somatic symptoms

  We improve the care for patients with persistent somatic symptoms by:

  1. demonstrating the importance of doctor-patient relationship and the importance of the doctor-patient communication as main drivers of better quality of care for these patients
  2. contributing to national and international evidence-based guidelines, and
  3. actively participating in national and international research consortia

• Contributing to care for patients with COVID and post-COVID

  We contribute to the care for patients with COVID and post-COVID by:

  1. initiating longitudinal research projects and multiple national consortium grant applications
  2. developing a successful post-COVID healthcare service in the region Nijmegen
  3. contributing to the Dutch health council committee on post-COVID
  4. contributing to the national research agenda on post-COVID
  5. involvement in the Post-Covid Network Netherlands (PCNN) as work package leader on real world data. 

Publications

See the publication list of the research group leader on Web of Science.

Alumni

• Dana Rouland
• Asma Chaabouni
• Brodie McGhie-Fraser
• Nick Mamo
• Frans Derksen
• Inge Stortenbeker
• Ilona Plug
• Margreet Wortman
• Aranka Ballering