Kirsten E Bevelander

Biographic Data

ID4164112
NAMEKirsten E Bevelander
GIVEN NAMESKirsten E
FAMILY NAMEBevelander
SIGNATUREBEVELANDER K E
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0002-9881-3266
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS51
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • The taxonomy of human goals in technology development

    Open AccessHanneke van Heijster, Julia van Calis et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2026

    Background Digital health innovations increase the options to enhance care practices, such as providing support in the complex task of organizing timely and appropriate care for long-term care recipients. Aiming to provide directions for technology development, this study investigated the needs of care recipients, specifically those facing cognitive challenges. We used a taxonomy of human goals to identify what long-term care recipients and careg…

  • The ethics of using virtual assistants to help people in vulnerable positions access care

    Open AccessSteven R Kraaijeveld, Hanneke van Heijster et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    People in vulnerable positions who need support in their daily lives often face challenges in receiving timely access to care; for instance, due to disabilities or individual and situational vulnerabilities. There has been an increasing turn to technology-mediated ways to improve access to care, which has raised ethical questions about the appropriateness and inclusiveness of digitalising care requests. Specifically, for people in vulnerable posi…

  • Mapping the longitudinal dynamics of Learning Communities about healthy weight approaches across Dutch municipalities

    Open AccessMaud Ter Bogt, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    Background. Learning from one another and cross-sectoral collaboration is essential among multidisciplinary challenges, such as in (healthcare) approaches that connect the medical and social domain. To strengthen cross-sectoral learning and collaboration, learning communities (LCs) were implemented in 2021 across five municipalities in the Netherlands. Previous research gave insights into isolated variables that help or hinder creating successful…

  • Exploring actions and perceived impact of Learning Communities about healthy weight approaches across Dutch municipalities

    Open AccessMaud Ter Bogt, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    Background. To reduce overweight and obesity rates, various Dutch municipalities applied healthy weight approaches (HWAs) that connect the medical and social domain. To strengthen HWAs and thus healthcare, learning communities (LCs) were implemented in 2021 that included multidisciplinary members like policy makers, care professionals, practice professionals and patients/citizens. LCs aim to stimulate learning, cross-sectoral collaboration, and a…

  • The multidisciplinary and participatory process to develop the Rubric for Learning Communities about Health Approaches

    Open AccessMaud J J ter Bogt, Hilde Tobi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Many Dutch municipalities implement a systems approach to promote health behavior among citizens. Learning communities (LCs) in these approaches enable stakeholders to collaborate and learn from one another. To optimize LCs, insights are needed into how LCs create knowledge and put it into action. This study aimed to describe the multidisciplinary and participatory process to develop a rubric for multidisciplinary Learning communiti…

  • Engaging underrepresented populations in public health monitoring

    Open AccessM Theunissen, Meike C M Theunissen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025

    Recruitment challenges, the use of complex language, and reluctance toward research are factors that make people with low literacy skills (LL skills), such as people with mild intellectual disability (MID), an underrepresented group in public health monitoring questionnaires. As a result, little is known about the health status and needs of people with MID and/or LL skills, despite their higher health risks and greater support needs, reinforcing …

  • Exploring learning communities’ actions and perceived impact on healthy weight approaches across Dutch municipalities

    Open AccessMaud J J ter Bogt, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Multidisciplinary LCs can contribute to creating new ideas and collaborations and to applying actions for a local HWA across most LPTs and system levels. These insights can be used during LC meetings to continuously adjust LCs and HWA actions when necessary. Future research is needed, for instance to gain further insights into new topics, the desired number of actions per LPT, and long-term LC impacts

  • Citizens’ perspectives on healthy weight approaches in low SEP neighborhoods

    Open AccessMaud J J ter Bogt, Yentl Z Te Riele et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Conducting inclusive qualitative research from a systems perspective among citizens living in low SEP neighborhoods has contributed valuable insights into their needs. This enables practical implementation of HWAs by providing a deeper understanding of the LPTs within the HWA system. LPTs can help HWA stakeholders to further develop current HWAs toward systems approaches. Future research could study the leverage points that may contribute to LPT …

  • Do You Know What Fake News Is? An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase Youth's Fake News Literacy

    Open AccessSanne L Tamboer, Anne Vlaanderen et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society2024References: 38

    Youth should be correctly informed about what is happening in the world, but research on empowering people to identify fake news rarely targets youth. To take the first steps in increasing their fake news literacy, this study ( N = 298) qualitatively looks into youth's (10-12 years old) fake news knowledge and quantitatively tests a fake news e-learning intervention (i.e., an online lesson in which youth learn about fake news and possible solutio…

  • Promoting water consumption among Dutch children

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Rebecca N H De Leeuw et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    NTR, NL6905, Registered 9 January 2018, https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/6905

  • Promoting water consumption among children

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Rebecca Nh De Leeuw et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To test the effectiveness of a social network intervention (SNI) to improve children’s healthy drinking behaviours. Design: A three-arm cluster randomised control trial design was used. In the SNI, a subset of children were selected and trained as ‘influence agents’ to promote water consumption–as an alternative to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)–among their peers. In the active control condition, all children were simultaneously expos…

  • Children’s Emotions after Exposure to News

    Open AccessMing Ebbinkhuijsen, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2021References: 28

    Hardly any research has been conducted regarding coping strategies that children can use in response to negative news, although they are frequently exposed to and emotionally affected by such news. Chat conversations with peers about the news could be a coping strategy for children in this regard. To investigate this, children ( N = 307; 46.3% girls; M age = 10.51; SD age = 0.98; range 8–13 years old) participated in a preregistered experiment in…

  • Empowering digital citizenship

    Open AccessAnne Vlaanderen, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2020

    Cyberbullying rates among children are worrisome and the consequences of cyberbullying can be detrimental. Theory-based interventions to reduce cyberbullying are lacking. Therefore, this study examined whether an online anti-cyberbullying intervention based on the Theory of Planned Behavior could increase children's intention to intervene in cyberbullying incidents on behalf of the victim. An experiment (N = 298, 10–12 years old) was conducted to…

  • Promoting healthy foods in the new digital era on Instagram

    Open AccessFrans Folkvord, Elze Roes et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The findings showed that it is crucial for social influencers to establish a warm personal relationship and connection with the their followers when promoting a healthy product successfully. We suggest that the promotion of healthy foods could be more successful in public health when using popular fit influencers

  • Comparing the measurement of different social networks

    Open AccessThabo J Van Woudenberg, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLENetwork Science2020Cited by: 5References: 11

    Background: Technological progress has enabled researchers to use new unobtrusive measures of relationships between actors in social network analysis. However, research on how these unobtrusive measures of peer connections relate to traditional sociometric nominations in adolescents is scarce. Therefore, the current study compared traditional peer nominated networks with more unobtrusive measures of peer connections: Communication networks that c…

  • Youth’s social network structures and peer influences

    Open AccessKirsten E Bevelander, Crystal R Smit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    The MyMovez project - Phase I is an innovative cross-sequential research project that investigates how social influences co-determine youth's energy intake and expenditure. This project utilizes advanced research technologies (Wearable Lab) that provide unique opportunities to better understand the underlying processes that impact youths' health-related behaviors. The project is theoretically and methodologically pioneering and produces a unique …

  • A randomized controlled trial testing a social network intervention to promote physical activity among adolescents

    Open AccessThabo J Van Woudenberg, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Dutch Trial Registry (NTR): NTR6173 . Registered 5 October 2016 Study procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Radboud University (ECSW2014-100614-222)

  • Framing norm-based messages differently

    Open AccessKirsten E Bevelander, Saar Mollen et al.ARTICLEAppetite2018

  • "Reprint of "Methodological and reporting quality in laboratory studies of human eating behavior

    Open AccessEric Robinson, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEAppetite2018Cited by: 5References: 43

  • A longitudinal study of friends' and parents' norms on core and non-core snack food intake

    Open AccessKirsten E Bevelander, William J Burk et al.ARTICLEAppetite2018

  • Methodological and reporting quality in laboratory studies of human eating behavior

    Open AccessEric Robinson, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEAppetite2018Cited by: 15References: 43

    The methodological quality and reporting practices of laboratory studies of human eating behavior determine the validity and replicability of nutrition science. The aim of this research was to examine basic methodology and reporting practices in recent representative laboratory studies of human eating behavior. We examined laboratory studies of human eating behavior (N = 140 studies) published during 2016. Basic methodology (e.g., sample size, us…

  • Crowdsourcing childhood predictors of adult obesity

    Open AccessKirsten E Bevelander, Kirsikka Kaipainen et al.ARTICLEAppetite2016

  • A social network-based intervention stimulating peer influence on children's self-reported water consumption

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Rebecca N H De Leeuw et al.ARTICLEAppetite2016Cited by: 2References: 38

  • How do influence agents successfully promote health behaviours

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Crystal Smit et al.ARTICLEAppetite2016

  • Social modeling of eating

    Open AccessTegan Cruwys, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEAppetite2015