,Introduction lecture
Kinds of psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Personality psychology
- Cognitive psychology
- Social psychology
- Clinical psychology
- Work psychology
- Educational psychology
- Health psychology
Health psychology
Health psychology = the study of social, behavioral, cognitive and emotional factors that contribute to:
- Promote and maintain health
- Prevent and manage illness
- Improve the health care system
What is health psychology?
- Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- This course: tertiary prevention
Practicalhealthpsychology.com → pieces of different scientists, trying to translate scientific knowledge about health
psychology to the practice
Course information
Topics of the course
Questions such as:
- Why don’t patients comply with treatment
recommendations?
- How to improve doctor-patient communication?
- How can we enhance coping skills?
- How can we help patients with low health literacy
skills?
- How can we prevent relapse into previous,
unhealth behaviours?
First: why? → what are the determinants?
Then: systematic and theoretically based intervention
development
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,By the end of this course
- You have knowledge and insight in important topics within health psychology, mainly tertiary prevention
- You understand patients more in depth
- You developed an intervention for patients to better cope with their disease, in a systematic way, based on
theory about behaviour and behaviour change and using M-health
Tutorial I: Assignment 1 and 2
Assignment 1
mHealth Intervention
- Group report
- Presentation
- Based on Intervention Mapping
What is mHealth?
- Digital health = the use of digital technologies for health
- eHealth = the use of information and communications technology in support of health and health-related
fields
- mHealth (mobile) = the use of mobile wireless technologies for health
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,Why use mHealth?
- Great use of internet (great possibilities)
- NL age 12+ in 2019
- Access to internet: 97%
- Use of internet: 87,4%
- Infromation about health: 69%
- NL age 65+
- Access to internet: 87,4%
- Use of internet: 61,2%
- Information about health: 51,8%
➔ The use of mHealth could be important for this group, since they are less mobile to reach a doctor
- Mobile phones are used everywhere/people are constantly connected with their phones → immediate
- Cost-efficient
- Easy to access/always accessible
- Easy to reach a large population
- Anonimity
- Make health more ‘fun’
- Increasing adherence/self-management (of chronic disorders)/health literacy
- Collecting data about health
- Can be individualized
Advantages of internet interventions:
- Low costs user and provider
- Reach patients without access to services
- Convenience in use
- Reducing stigma
- Present info in variety of formats
- Ease of tailoring adice
- Automated encouragement, feedback and reminders
➔ Potential for practical and cost-effective delivery of interventions capable of reaching many individuals
Example: diabetes
How can mHealth help diabetes patients?
- Control glucose levels
- See progresss
- Tips (self-management)
- Communication with doctors
Disadvantages of mHealth
- Data security
- Skills and design possibilities
- Data entry and screen size
- Maintenance
- Attention span
- Dropout
- Internet/WIFI availability
➔ Many eHealth/mHealth interventions, but little evidence
For example: only a small percentage of apps were developed with identifiable professional input
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, Intervention mapping
The assignment
Prototype
- Creativity and innovation!
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