C A C M Pittens
Biographic Data
| ID | 379173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C A C M Pittens |
| GIVEN NAMES | C A C M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittens |
| SIGNATURE | PITTENS C A C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2795-4790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Circular model: Advancing public health through citizen science initiated clinical and mechanistic research in atrial fibrillation
Citizen science is a transformative approach to advancing health research by bridging the gap between researchers and the public. The Dutch CIRCULAR model, which addresses atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide, offers a unique example of applying citizen science in biomedical and public health research. The project was established to systematically include people with AF and their families as partners in research,…
Navigating multi-stakeholder networks: Embracing diverse perspectives in higher education–community collaboration
Higher education institutions are increasingly expected to address complex societal challenges through engaged education and collaboration within multi-stakeholder networks. However, fostering reciprocal, mutually beneficial collaborations remains challenging, raising the question of how higher education institutions can engage in ways that genuinely meet partner interests. This study explores how higher education institutions can facilitate reci…
Transdisciplinary learning trajectories: Developing action and attitude in interplay
Addressing complex societal challenges requires professionals capable of integrating multiple perspectives on problems and possible solutions. This requires crossing disciplinary boundaries and boundaries between science and society. Transdisciplinary approaches respond to this demand by deliberately integrating knowledge of different disciplinary specialists and societal actors for a joint framing and co-creation of new options for addressing so…
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system
While the right of children to be involved in decisions that concern them has been widely recognised, they are currently barely involved in guideline development in healthcare. This paper aims to explore what a future guideline development system in which children are meaningfully involved might look like and to reflect on the transition required to achieve this. We used a systems innovation perspective, exploring child participation within its s…
Decision-Making Dilemmas within Integrated Care Service Networks: A Systematic Literature Review
We believe that network- and 'systemic' stakeholders both need to reflect upon and learn from decision-making dilemmas to work towards widely supported and adequate decisions. This is important for achieving aligned and holistic care services that many people desire
Fun, engaging and easily shareable? Exploring the value of co-creating vlogs with citizens from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
The use of vlogs is promising in participatory action research (PAR) that aims to enhance the health and well-being of citizens. Vlogs have the potential to reach a wide audience, transcending the local scale of PAR. This article aims to explore the value of co-creating vlogs by investigating two exploratory studies involving adolescents and women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We reflected on the co-creation of vlogs by community members and…
Co-creating an empowering health education intervention for urological cancer patients
Objective: The effectiveness of health education for patients has often been suboptimal. The neglect of a focus on empowerment and the presence of implementation barriers have been put forward as possible explanations for this. This study aimed to gain insight into how to co-create and develop an empowerment theory-based health education intervention for urological cancer patients. Design: Bravo’s empowerment intervention model provided the theor…
A research agenda on oral health care as a boundary object that unites the perspectives of patients and practitioners
CONTEXT: A research agenda for oral health care was established in the Netherlands using the Dialogue Model. This project served as a case study in which we applied boundary-work theory as a framework to understand boundaries (ie demarcations) between and within groups, and how these boundaries can be overcome. OBJECTIVE: To gain insights into the boundaries encountered when setting a research agenda, we analysed how this agenda served as a bound…
Supporting integrated elderly care networks in working from a more demand- and person-oriented approach in the Netherlands
Introduction:In a Dutch region, various care and welfare organizations that support vulnerable elderly have joined forces in an integrated care network. The network envisions that elderly should continue to live in their own familiar environment as long as possible and desirable, healthy, satisfied and independent. To realize this vision, a demand- and person-oriented approach is necessary. Therefore, the network has introduced an approach based …
McDonald’s Is Good for My Social Life’ . Developing Health Promotion Together with Adolescent Girls from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods in Amsterdam
There is limited knowledge about key factors that enable adolescent girls with a low socioeconomic position (SEP) to adopt a healthy lifestyle. This paper aims to better understand the complexity of addressing health behaviour of adolescent girls with a low SEP by gaining insights into (i) the perspectives of adolescent girls with a low SEP (n = 26) on a healthy lifestyle, (ii) how to develop health promotion that fits these girls’ daily realitie…
Empowering Patients and Health Professionals to Address Sexual Health in the Context of Anorectal Malformations and Hirschsprung's Disease
The aim of this study is to develop a tool that is aligned with patients' and health professionals' needs to address sexual health in the context of anorectal malformations and Hirschsprung's disease. A multiphased participatory action-research was conducted. First, an inventory of needs was made through interviews (11 patients, 11 professionals), three online focus groups (4 patients, 20 professionals), and a questionnaire (38 patients). Subsequ…
The involvement of gynaecological patients in the development of a clinical guideline for resumption of (work) activities in the N etherlands
CONTEXT: Most initiatives for patient involvement in guideline development have been carried out for chronic diseases. The involvement of patients with incidental and non-threatening diseases is more complicated. Little knowledge is available on how these patient groups can successfully be involved in guideline development. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of the involvement of gynaecological patients in the guideline development for resump…
Patient involvement in research programming and implementation: A responsive evaluation of the Dialogue Model for research agenda setting
BACKGROUND: The Dialogue Model for research agenda-setting, involving multiple stakeholders including patients, was developed and validated in the Netherlands. However, there is little insight into whether and how patient involvement is sustained during the programming and implementation of research agendas. AIM: To understand how the Dialogue Model can be optimised by focusing on programming and implementation, in order to stimulate the inclusio…
Fun, engaging and easily shareable? Exploring the value of co-creating vlogs with citizens from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
The use of vlogs is promising in participatory action research (PAR) that aims to enhance the health and well-being of citizens. Vlogs have the potential to reach a wide audience, transcending the local scale of PAR. This article aims to explore the value of co-creating vlogs by investigating two exploratory studies involving adolescents and women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We reflected on the co-creation of vlogs by community members and…
Decision-Making Dilemmas within Integrated Care Service Networks: A Systematic Literature Review
We believe that network- and 'systemic' stakeholders both need to reflect upon and learn from decision-making dilemmas to work towards widely supported and adequate decisions. This is important for achieving aligned and holistic care services that many people desire
The involvement of gynaecological patients in the development of a clinical guideline for resumption of (work) activities in the N etherlands
CONTEXT: Most initiatives for patient involvement in guideline development have been carried out for chronic diseases. The involvement of patients with incidental and non-threatening diseases is more complicated. Little knowledge is available on how these patient groups can successfully be involved in guideline development. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of the involvement of gynaecological patients in the guideline development for resump…
Patient involvement in research programming and implementation: A responsive evaluation of the Dialogue Model for research agenda setting
BACKGROUND: The Dialogue Model for research agenda-setting, involving multiple stakeholders including patients, was developed and validated in the Netherlands. However, there is little insight into whether and how patient involvement is sustained during the programming and implementation of research agendas. AIM: To understand how the Dialogue Model can be optimised by focusing on programming and implementation, in order to stimulate the inclusio…
McDonald’s Is Good for My Social Life’ . Developing Health Promotion Together with Adolescent Girls from Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods in Amsterdam
There is limited knowledge about key factors that enable adolescent girls with a low socioeconomic position (SEP) to adopt a healthy lifestyle. This paper aims to better understand the complexity of addressing health behaviour of adolescent girls with a low SEP by gaining insights into (i) the perspectives of adolescent girls with a low SEP (n = 26) on a healthy lifestyle, (ii) how to develop health promotion that fits these girls’ daily realitie…
Empowering Patients and Health Professionals to Address Sexual Health in the Context of Anorectal Malformations and Hirschsprung's Disease
The aim of this study is to develop a tool that is aligned with patients' and health professionals' needs to address sexual health in the context of anorectal malformations and Hirschsprung's disease. A multiphased participatory action-research was conducted. First, an inventory of needs was made through interviews (11 patients, 11 professionals), three online focus groups (4 patients, 20 professionals), and a questionnaire (38 patients). Subsequ…
Co-creating an empowering health education intervention for urological cancer patients
Objective: The effectiveness of health education for patients has often been suboptimal. The neglect of a focus on empowerment and the presence of implementation barriers have been put forward as possible explanations for this. This study aimed to gain insight into how to co-create and develop an empowerment theory-based health education intervention for urological cancer patients. Design: Bravo’s empowerment intervention model provided the theor…
A research agenda on oral health care as a boundary object that unites the perspectives of patients and practitioners
CONTEXT: A research agenda for oral health care was established in the Netherlands using the Dialogue Model. This project served as a case study in which we applied boundary-work theory as a framework to understand boundaries (ie demarcations) between and within groups, and how these boundaries can be overcome. OBJECTIVE: To gain insights into the boundaries encountered when setting a research agenda, we analysed how this agenda served as a bound…
Supporting integrated elderly care networks in working from a more demand- and person-oriented approach in the Netherlands
Introduction:In a Dutch region, various care and welfare organizations that support vulnerable elderly have joined forces in an integrated care network. The network envisions that elderly should continue to live in their own familiar environment as long as possible and desirable, healthy, satisfied and independent. To realize this vision, a demand- and person-oriented approach is necessary. Therefore, the network has introduced an approach based …
Decision-Making Dilemmas within Integrated Care Service Networks: A Systematic Literature Review
We believe that network- and 'systemic' stakeholders both need to reflect upon and learn from decision-making dilemmas to work towards widely supported and adequate decisions. This is important for achieving aligned and holistic care services that many people desire
Fun, engaging and easily shareable? Exploring the value of co-creating vlogs with citizens from disadvantaged neighbourhoods
The use of vlogs is promising in participatory action research (PAR) that aims to enhance the health and well-being of citizens. Vlogs have the potential to reach a wide audience, transcending the local scale of PAR. This article aims to explore the value of co-creating vlogs by investigating two exploratory studies involving adolescents and women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We reflected on the co-creation of vlogs by community members and…
Transdisciplinary learning trajectories: Developing action and attitude in interplay
Addressing complex societal challenges requires professionals capable of integrating multiple perspectives on problems and possible solutions. This requires crossing disciplinary boundaries and boundaries between science and society. Transdisciplinary approaches respond to this demand by deliberately integrating knowledge of different disciplinary specialists and societal actors for a joint framing and co-creation of new options for addressing so…
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system
While the right of children to be involved in decisions that concern them has been widely recognised, they are currently barely involved in guideline development in healthcare. This paper aims to explore what a future guideline development system in which children are meaningfully involved might look like and to reflect on the transition required to achieve this. We used a systems innovation perspective, exploring child participation within its s…
The Circular model: Advancing public health through citizen science initiated clinical and mechanistic research in atrial fibrillation
Citizen science is a transformative approach to advancing health research by bridging the gap between researchers and the public. The Dutch CIRCULAR model, which addresses atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide, offers a unique example of applying citizen science in biomedical and public health research. The project was established to systematically include people with AF and their families as partners in research,…
Navigating multi-stakeholder networks: Embracing diverse perspectives in higher education–community collaboration
Higher education institutions are increasingly expected to address complex societal challenges through engaged education and collaboration within multi-stakeholder networks. However, fostering reciprocal, mutually beneficial collaborations remains challenging, raising the question of how higher education institutions can engage in ways that genuinely meet partner interests. This study explores how higher education institutions can facilitate reci…
Computer Science (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Citizen journalism (4 works)