R Reis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3390 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Reis |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Reis |
| FIRMA | REIS R |
| AFILIACIONES | Leiden University Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8249-0856 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
“She is a Mother, but still Childish”. Exploring Adult Caregivers’ Perspectives on Adolescent Parenting
The adolescent-adult caregiver relationship is arguably one of the strongest influences on adolescent parents’ development and parenting abilities. In Cape Town, South Africa, an evaluation of a parenting programme targeting school-going adolescent parents, considered the intervention effects on parenting and adolescent wellbeing, in three low-income communities. Adolescent parents resided with their adult caregivers. This paper draws on seventee…
Development process of a context-specific instrument to measure children's sense of protection (PROTECT)
Violence against children (VAC) is a global problem, and the development of empirical methods to better understand its nature is a step towards tackling this challenge. Tools exist to collect data on VAC. Yet, to the best of our knowledge, no standardized process exists to develop a context-specific instrument that measures children's sense of protection. The primary aim of this paper is to present the steps followed to develop such an instrument…
“Timelining” Treatment Trajectories During Interviews About Shared Decision Making With Ethnic Minorities in Oncology
The use of timelines is well-established in qualitative research and has been employed across a range of studies. However, the development of timelines (timelining) during interviews on shared decision making (SDM) remains relatively uncommon. This article reflects on our experiences with integrating timelining into semi-structured interviews with ethnic minority patients and their relatives on SDM in oncology. During the interviews, the intervie…
Sociocultural identification of migrant forensic psychiatric inpatients facing mandatory repatriation – a hospital ethnography
In the Netherlands, terbeschikkingstelling (TBS) is a forensic psychiatric measure imposed on individuals who commit a criminal offence under diminished responsibility due to severe mental illness. For TBS patients without Dutch nationality, mandatory repatriation replaces resocialization as the final goal of TBS treatment, as they lose Dutch residency rights due to their offence. This article examines how this subgroup of TBS patients at a Dutch…
Navigating Challenges with Trust and Creativity
In this study, we explore the relational dimensions of resilience among adolescents in Iceland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the frameworks of social-ecological resilience and the embodied, social, and public child, we examine how resilience manifests through interactions with family, peers, and community. Participants employed tactical trust and creative strategies to navigate restrictions, transforming digital and physical spaces into sou…
A historical narrative review of the emerging priority of acceptability in tuberculosis treatment in children
Children affected by tuberculosis (TB) are a historically neglected group. In the past two decades, researchers have made significant advances towards developing new drugs and formulations for treating and preventing TB in children. Organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and Stop TB Partnership have advocated for the development of child-friendly antituberculosis treatment (ATT) regimens. However, ATT is notoriously unpalatable, t…
Decentralized Consultation for Infectious Diseases With Migrant Populations
Navigating Ambiguity and Uncertainty in End-of-Life Care Research Practice
Researchers frequently face conceptual, methodological, and ethical decisions - collectively known as researcher discretion - that can substantially influence research outcomes. Despite its importance, the nature of these discretionary moments and their triggers in everyday research practice remain underexplored. Based on an abductive thematic analysis of fieldnotes, documents, and interviews from twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in two en…
Syndemic processes between non-communicable diseases and HIV within the Kingdom of Eswatini
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa faces a double burden of disease due to the continued high prevalence of infectious diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis, and a concurrent increase in non-communicable diseases. The co-occurrence and clustering of multiple diseases can cause a syndemic, synergistically interacting epidemics, driven by context. METHODS: This cross-sectional study investigated potential syndemics in Eswatini, by determining geospatia…
Parents’ perspectives on adolescent social emotional learning
Purpose Worldwide, schools implement social-emotional learning programs to enhance students' social-emotional skills. Although parents play an essential role in teaching these skills, knowledge about their perspectives on social-emotional learning is limited. In providing insight into the perspectives of parents from adolescent students this paper adds to this knowledge. Design/methodology/approach An explorative qualitative study was conducted t…
Low-achieving adolescent students' perspectives on their interactions with classmates. An exploratory study to inform the implementation of a social emotional learning program in prevocational educati…
Social and Emotional Learning programs, designed to enhance adolescents’ social and emotional skills, are implemented in schools worldwide. To strengthen SEL programs and adapt them to adolescents’ needs, we explored their perspectives on their own social-emotional development, focusing on low-achieving students in prevocational education. We interviewed eleven boys and eleven girls in five focus groups on (1) their general school life experience…
What are the most essential social-emotional skills
Introduction Universal school-based social-emotional learning (SEL) programs target several social-emotional skills assuming a relationship between the skills and psychosocial health outcomes. However, greater insight into the relationship is required to clarify the skills that are most crucial to address. It will support the development and refinement of SEL programs. This study investigated (1) the relationship among the social-emotional skills…
Testing when I know my status
Landmark studies demonstrating a reduction in onward HIV transmission and improved survival have informed a shift in global antiretroviral therapy policy to a ‘treat all’ approach. Global HIV stakeholders have called on countries to urgently scale up their HIV programs, involving responsibilities for various health system actors for accelerating HIV epidemic control. In this article we explore how community members in South Africa who were part o…
Reasons for, and factors associated with, positive HIV retesting
Eswatini has a high HIV prevalence but has made progress towards improving HIV-status awareness, ART uptake and viral suppression. However, there is still a delay in ART initiation, which could partly be attributed to positive HIV-retesting. This study examines reasons for, and factors associated with, positive HIV-retesting among MaxART participants in Eswatini. Data from 601 participants is included in this cross-sectional study. Descriptive st…
A systematic review of the literature on community-level child protection in low- and middle-income countries
Promoting the health of vulnerable populations
This paper proposes a novel framework for the development of interventions in vulnerable populations. The framework combines a complex systems lens with syndemic theory. Whereas funding bodies, research organizations and reporting guidelines tend to encourage intervention research that (i) focuses on singular and predefined health outcomes, (ii) searches for generalizable cause-effect relationships, and (iii) aims to identify universally effectiv…
Effects of an SEL Program in a Diverse Population of Low Achieving Secondary Education Students
Adolescents’ social-emotional skills are associated with positive outcomes in psychosocial health and success in education and work. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of Skills4Life, a Social Emotional Learning program for preparatory vocational secondary education aimed at enhancing self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Low-achieving students with additional educationa…
Beliefs, Perceptions, and Behaviors Regarding Chronic Respiratory Diseases of Roma in Crete, Greece
Background: The global burden of chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) disproportionally affects Roma populations. Health interventions addressing CRD among Roma or other vulnerable groups often fail to be effective, as their implementation strategy misaligns with the local context. To design context-driven strategies, we studied CRD-related beliefs, perceptions, and behaviors among a Greek Roma population, focussing on asthma and COPD. Methods: Fo…
Toward a conceptual framework of the acceptability of tuberculosis treatment in children using a theory generative approach
To describe an early-stage holistic framework towards evaluating factors that impact the overall acceptability of TB treatment along the TB care cascade in children. We developed a conceptual framework utilising a theory generative approach. Domains were developed through review of existing definitions and analysis of existing qualitative data undertaken in acceptability studies of TB treatment in children. Clarity of domain definitions was achie…
Exploring syndemic vulnerability across generations
This qualitative case study uses a life-course approach to explore syndemic vulnerability in a former fishing village in the Netherlands. Building on four years of fieldwork in a low-income neighborhood, we explored salient themes between and across families and generations. Elderly community members (>65 years) were interviewed to map village history and explore how contextual factors have affected family life, health, and wellbeing since the 19…
The Evaluation of a Family-Engagement Approach to Increase Physical Activity, Healthy Nutrition, and Well-Being in Children and Their Parents
Prevention programs often are directed at either parents or children separately, thereby ignoring the intergenerational aspect of health and well-being. Engaging the family is likely to improve both the uptake and long-term impact of health behavior change. We integrated an intergenerational approach into a frequently used shared assessment tool for children's care needs. The current study's aim was 2-fold: to monitor this family-engagement tool'…
A systematic approach to context-mapping to prepare for health interventions
Effectiveness of health interventions can be substantially impaired by implementation failure. Context-driven implementation strategies are critical for successful implementation. However, there is no practical, evidence-based guidance on how to map the context in order to design context-driven strategies. Therefore, this practice paper describes the development and validation of a systematic context-mapping tool. The tool was cocreated with loca…
Psychological distress, cardiometabolic diseases and musculoskeletal pain
BACKGROUND: Disease clustering is a growing public health concern and is increasingly linked to adverse socioeconomic conditions. Few population-based studies have focussed on interaction between non-communicable diseases. In this cross-sectional study, we examine clustering of, and synergistic interactions between, frequently occurring non-communicable diseases in Katwijk, a former fishing village in the Netherlands. Additionally, our study iden…
Syndemic contexts
BACKGROUND: Syndemics are characterized by the clustering of two or more health conditions, their adverse interaction, and contextual factors that create the conditions for clustering and/or interaction that worsens health outcomes. Studying syndemics entails drawing on diverse disciplines, including epidemiology and anthropology. This often means collaboration between researchers with different scholarly backgrounds, who share and - ideally - in…
Mental health effects on adolescent parents of young children
At-risk families and caregivers from low-and middle-income countries have been shown to benefit from parenting interventions. But there is limited evidence on the impact of interventions on adolescent parents. This paper considers the effects of a parenting programme targeting adolescent parents in South Africa, emphasising parenting and adolescent well-being outcomes. Secondly, it explores whether such an intervention can influence adolescent de…
The "Thinking a Lot" Idiom of Distress and PTSD
Thinking a lot" (TAL)-also referred to as "thinking too much"-is a key complaint in many cultural contexts, and the current article profiles this idiom of distress among Cambodian refugees. The article also proposes a general model of how TAL generates various types of distress that then cause PTSD-type psychopathology, a model we refer to as the TAL-PTSD model. As tested in this Cambodian refugee sample, the model is supported by the following: …
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma
Introduction - beyond the confinement of affliction a discursive field of experience, Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg kings, spirits and brides in Tanzania, Henny Blokland gender and ngoma - the power of drums in Eastern Zambia, Annette Drews the wounded healer as ideology - the work of ngoma in Swaziland, Ria Reis social commentaries and the influence of the clientele - the case of the Mhondoro cult in Dande, Zimbabwe, Marja Spierenbu…
The epidemiology of spirit possession in the aftermath of mass political violence in Mozambique
Silencing distressed children in the context of war in northern Uganda
Contextualising sexual harassment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh
Violence against women is a social mechanism confirming women's subordination in many societies. Sexual violence and harassment have various negative psychological impacts on girls, including a persistent feeling of insecurity and loss of self-esteem. This article aims to contextualize a particular form of sexual harassment, namely “eve teasing”, experienced by Bangladeshi adolescent girls (12–18 years) which emerged from a study of adolescent se…
Collective trauma processing
Guidelines on psychosocial interventions in postconflict areas commonly mention that interventions should be based on local needs and be built on culture-specific expertise. This paper is based on a dissociative cult, the Kiyang-yang (KYY), in Guinea Bissau. In a previous article, we used a refined definition of the concept of idiom of distress to analyze the dissociative behavior displayed in KYY as a symbolic language addressing politically dan…
Using social network analysis to examine the decision-making process on new vaccine introduction in Nigeria
The decision-making process to introduce new vaccines into national immunization programmes is often complex, involving many stakeholders who provide technical information, mobilize finance, implement programmes and garner political support. Stakeholders may have different levels of interest, knowledge and motivations to introduce new vaccines. Lack of consensus on the priority, public health value or feasibility of adding a new vaccine can delay…
Communal Violence and Child Psychosocial Well-being
This exploratory study examined the health care system in relation to communal violence-related psychosocial wellbeing in Poso, Indonesia, as preparation for conducting a cluster randomized trial of a psychosocial intervention. We employed focus groups with children ( N = 9), parents ( N = 11), and teachers ( N = 8), as well as semi-structured interviews with families affected by communal violence ( N = 42), and key informants ( N = 33). An inter…
Contextualized understanding of depression
Colonial misconceptions about the absence of depression and the lack of a psychologization of distress among Africans have long been refuted. However, cultural variation in depression in terms of symptomatic expression, conceptualization, explanatory models, and social responses is widely acknowledged. Insight into the cultural variation of depression is useful for providing appropriate care; however, few studies have explored cultural understand…
Resonating to pain
The author has been involved in anthropological research on epilepsy in the setting of Swaziland and The Netherlands. This article explores the differences between those research experiences. It specifically describes an affective aspect of medical anthropological fieldwork at home: the idea that one's emotional response may alert to socio-cultural issues in a similar way to a psychotherapist's countertransference may alert to core issues. It is …
Exploring syndemic vulnerability across generations
This qualitative case study uses a life-course approach to explore syndemic vulnerability in a former fishing village in the Netherlands. Building on four years of fieldwork in a low-income neighborhood, we explored salient themes between and across families and generations. Elderly community members (>65 years) were interviewed to map village history and explore how contextual factors have affected family life, health, and wellbeing since the 19…
Decision-making, barriers, and facilitators regarding cervical cancer screening participation among Turkish and Moroccan women in the Netherlands
OBJECTIVES: Whether the lower Dutch cervical cancer (CC) screening participation of Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women is based on informed decision-making is unknown. Our aim was to explore how and why Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women decide to participate or not in the current Dutch CC screening programme as well as to learn their perceptions on self-sampling. DESIGN: Six focus group discussions were conducted between March and April 2019 with …
Parents' beliefs about the cause of parenting problems and relevance of parenting support
Epilepsy and self-identity among the Dutch
This article discusses the relationship between societal images of epilepsy and the self-identity of Dutch people with epilepsy. I show that the condition of having epilepsy is only constructed as chronic if people continue to have seizures. Chronic epilepsy, or "real epilepsy" as it is sometimes called, is not burdened with such classic stereotypes as "the epileptic personality" or "the epileptic genius." However, Dutch people replace these ster…
Emic perspectives on the impact of armed conflict on children’s mental health and psychosocial well-being
Mental health effects on adolescent parents of young children
At-risk families and caregivers from low-and middle-income countries have been shown to benefit from parenting interventions. But there is limited evidence on the impact of interventions on adolescent parents. This paper considers the effects of a parenting programme targeting adolescent parents in South Africa, emphasising parenting and adolescent well-being outcomes. Secondly, it explores whether such an intervention can influence adolescent de…
Parental engagement in preventive youth health care
It is common for parents to have concerns or questions regarding their child. However, parental concerns are not always recognised by the youth healthcare professional. At the same time, not all parents agree with concerns identified by the professional. Identifying and agreeing on concerns is an essential step in the assessment of care needs within child health care. This article describes the effects of an innovative 'GIZ'2 methodology for join…
Charlie Hebdo as a critical event in a secondary school
This paper examines responses to the 2015 terror attack on Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, amongst students in a secondary school in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany. The Charlie Hebdo attack occurred in the final weeks of a 19-month ethnographic study in the community. By analyzing the responses in the school to this critical event, we identify what is at stake for Muslim students. Students presented many explanations for why the attack happ…
Change and continuity in Burundian divinatory healing
Traditional healing practices in Burundi are rarely documented within ethnographic literature; further, it is unknown how practices have changed in the last two decades. This paper analyses data based on interviews and observations with seven Burundian abapfumu (diviner-healers), and 14 focus group discussions with community members. The results show that the position of traditional healers towards tradition is ambivalent; giving less emphasis to…
Bioethics in practice
Toward Socio-Criticism
Bodies and Biases
Resonating to pain
The author has been involved in anthropological research on epilepsy in the setting of Swaziland and The Netherlands. This article explores the differences between those research experiences. It specifically describes an affective aspect of medical anthropological fieldwork at home: the idea that one's emotional response may alert to socio-cultural issues in a similar way to a psychotherapist's countertransference may alert to core issues. It is …
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma
Introduction - beyond the confinement of affliction a discursive field of experience, Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg kings, spirits and brides in Tanzania, Henny Blokland gender and ngoma - the power of drums in Eastern Zambia, Annette Drews the wounded healer as ideology - the work of ngoma in Swaziland, Ria Reis social commentaries and the influence of the clientele - the case of the Mhondoro cult in Dande, Zimbabwe, Marja Spierenbu…
Epilepsy and self-identity among the Dutch
This article discusses the relationship between societal images of epilepsy and the self-identity of Dutch people with epilepsy. I show that the condition of having epilepsy is only constructed as chronic if people continue to have seizures. Chronic epilepsy, or "real epilepsy" as it is sometimes called, is not burdened with such classic stereotypes as "the epileptic personality" or "the epileptic genius." However, Dutch people replace these ster…
Kiyang-yang, a West-African Postwar Idiom of Distress
In 1984, a healing cult for young barren women in southern Guinea Bissau developed into a movement, Kiyang-yang, that shook society to its foundations and had national repercussions. "Idiom of distress" is used here as a heuristic tool to understand how Kiyang-yang was able to link war and post-war-related traumatic stress and suffering on both individual and group levels. An individual experience born from a traumatic origin may be generalized i…
The epidemiology of spirit possession in the aftermath of mass political violence in Mozambique
Silencing distressed children in the context of war in northern Uganda
Communal Violence and Child Psychosocial Well-being
This exploratory study examined the health care system in relation to communal violence-related psychosocial wellbeing in Poso, Indonesia, as preparation for conducting a cluster randomized trial of a psychosocial intervention. We employed focus groups with children ( N = 9), parents ( N = 11), and teachers ( N = 8), as well as semi-structured interviews with families affected by communal violence ( N = 42), and key informants ( N = 33). An inter…
How will e-health affect patient participation in the clinic? A review of e-health studies and the current evidence for changes in the relationship between medical professionals and patients
Using social network analysis to examine the decision-making process on new vaccine introduction in Nigeria
The decision-making process to introduce new vaccines into national immunization programmes is often complex, involving many stakeholders who provide technical information, mobilize finance, implement programmes and garner political support. Stakeholders may have different levels of interest, knowledge and motivations to introduce new vaccines. Lack of consensus on the priority, public health value or feasibility of adding a new vaccine can delay…
Madness or sadness? Local concepts of mental illness in four conflict-affected African communities
Local conceptualizations have significant implications for the planning of mental-health interventions in resource-poor settings recovering from conflict. Treatment options for people suffering from severe mental disorders should be made available to people, preferably within general health care facilities. For people suffering from local syndromes characterized by loss or sadness, the primary aim for public mental health interventions would be t…
Children enacting idioms of witchcraft and spirit possession as a response to trauma
This article examines children’s enactment of spirit possession idioms and witchcraft in Africa including the meanings such idioms provide and the local healing resources they mobilize. Idioms of haunting spirits in Northern Uganda and witch-children elsewhere in Africa can be interpreted as manifestations of social crises and mass traumatic stress. On the other hand, such idioms also allow children to articulate, reflect upon, and communicate th…
Bioethics in practice
Contextualising sexual harassment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh
Violence against women is a social mechanism confirming women's subordination in many societies. Sexual violence and harassment have various negative psychological impacts on girls, including a persistent feeling of insecurity and loss of self-esteem. This article aims to contextualize a particular form of sexual harassment, namely “eve teasing”, experienced by Bangladeshi adolescent girls (12–18 years) which emerged from a study of adolescent se…
Collective trauma processing
Guidelines on psychosocial interventions in postconflict areas commonly mention that interventions should be based on local needs and be built on culture-specific expertise. This paper is based on a dissociative cult, the Kiyang-yang (KYY), in Guinea Bissau. In a previous article, we used a refined definition of the concept of idiom of distress to analyze the dissociative behavior displayed in KYY as a symbolic language addressing politically dan…
Revealing the hidden agency of children in a clinical setting
BACKGROUND: Interactions with children in clinical settings are often criticized because parents and medical professionals speak for children rather than to them. Such approaches do not take the agency of children into account. OBJECTIVE: First, to examine how children enact agency in a clinical encounter and draw lessons from this to improve health-care practices for children and, second, to explain how looking at agency might help to move the p…
“Thinking a Lot” Among the Khwe of South Africa
"Thinking too much", and variations such as "thinking a lot", are common idioms of distress across the world. The contextual meaning of this idiom of distress in particular localities remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a systematic study of the content and cause, consequences, and social response and coping related to the local terms |x'an n|a te and |eu-ca n|a te, both translated as "thinking a lot", and was part of a larger ethnogra…
A stitch in time saves nine? A repeated cross-sectional case study on the implementation of the intersectoral community approach Youth At a Healthy Weight
The results of this study show that the implementation process of IACOs is complex and sustainable implementation is difficult to achieve. Moreover, this study reveals that the implementation process is influenced by predominantly sector and implementation phase specific (causal configurations of) determinants
The "Thinking a Lot" Idiom of Distress and PTSD
Thinking a lot" (TAL)-also referred to as "thinking too much"-is a key complaint in many cultural contexts, and the current article profiles this idiom of distress among Cambodian refugees. The article also proposes a general model of how TAL generates various types of distress that then cause PTSD-type psychopathology, a model we refer to as the TAL-PTSD model. As tested in this Cambodian refugee sample, the model is supported by the following: …
Rethinking the family in the context of care for adolescents living with HIV in Swaziland
Drawing from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in one urban and one rural setting in Swaziland, involving 13 case studies of adolescents living with HIV, in this article we explore the meaning of the family as it applies to Swazi adolescents' everyday life. Our findings suggest that the meaning of the family is constantly evolving and transforming based on changing needs of, and expectations by, adolescents in different contexts and moments of …
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This article explores how notions of the individual and population are evoked in two ongoing HIV treatment as prevention (TasP) implementation studies in Swaziland. By contrasting policy discourses with lived kinship experiences of people living with HIV, we seek to understand how TasP unfolds in the Swazi context. Data collection consisted of eight focus group discussions with people living with HIV who were members of support groups to examine …
A Transcultural Model of the Centrality of “Thinking a Lot” in Psychopathologies Across the Globe and the Process of Localization
Patterns in medicinal plant knowledge and use in a Maroon village in Suriname
Emic perspectives on the impact of armed conflict on children’s mental health and psychosocial well-being
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