Kris Van Den Broeck
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4219684 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kris Van Den Broeck |
| PRENOMES | Kris Van Den |
| SOBRENOME | Broeck |
| ASSINATURA | VAN DEN BROECK K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5566-6868 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Integrated depression care (Ideca) project
Background: Depression in Belgium is the number one reason for disability-adjusted life years lost. Unmet care needs are plenty, partly caused by a lack of care integration. Integration of mental health services within primary care can be achieved through strengthening general medical practice with a dedicated mental health professional working across care lines. Estimating the direct budget impact of such a care model is pivotal for its sustaina…
Goal-Oriented Care in Action
Background: Healthcare systems globally are shifting towards person-centred integrated care (PC-IC) to better support individuals with complex, long-term needs. Goal-oriented care (GOC), which aligns care with patients' personal goals and preferences, is one approach to care delivery which can support person-centred integrated care. However, applying GOC in practice requires interprofessional primary care teams to adopt new routines and skills. T…
Bridging Pharmacy and Psychosocial Care
Introduction: Since 2021, project #CAVAsa strengthens the collaboration between community pharmacists and psychosocial care in Flanders (Belgium) as pharmacists are trained to identify and assist citizens with unmet psychosocial needs. This project highlights the role of pharmacists outside medication-related practice. Who’s it for? Pharmacists are accessible primary care providers who regularly engage with vulnerable individuals: people experien…
Behavioural Change in Practice
Reflective practice is vital for aligning PCPs' behaviour with GOC. Involvement of all colleagues and dedicated time for reflection promote team alignment and consistency in achieving patients' personal goals
Homelessness and housing problems in admitted psychiatric patients in Flanders, Belgium
Homelessness in psychiatric patients in Flanders, Belgium, has never been investigated. Advocacy groups from patients with lived experience of psychiatric disorders have sounded the alarm on the scarcity of suitable housing options, the strain on psychiatric institutions, and the challenges faced by social service workers. To investigate the extent of the problem a survey on the topic was initiated. A “homelessness-in-mental-health-questionnaire”…
Fine-tuning the practical relevance of a quality framework for integrated nature-based interventions in healthcare facilities. A qualitative interview study
Introduction: Integrated nature-based interventions in healthcare facilities are gaining importance as promising health and biodiversity promotion strategies. This type of interventions combines the restoration of biodiversity in the vicinity of the healthcare facility with guiding patients in that natural environment for health outcomes. However, quality appraisal of these interventions is still poorly developed. Based on a recent scoping review…
Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops
Background: Despite numerous attempts to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration (IPCI) in primary care, patients, care providers, researchers, and governments are still looking for tools and guidance to do this more efficiently. To address these issues, we decided to develop a generic toolkit, based on sociocracy and psychological safety principles, to guide care providers in their collaboration within and outside their practice.…
Media coverage of Belgium’s first criminal case concerning euthanasia for psychiatric patients
Although major Flemish newspapers and magazines generally were neutral in their coverage of the judicial case, major points of contention discussed were: the need for an evaluation and possible amendments to the existing Euthanasia Law, including a revision of the Belgian Control Commission and the system of penalties for physicians, and the absence of any consensus or guidance on how to define psychological suffering
Physical Healthcare for People with a Severe Mental Illness in Belgium by Long-Term Community Mental Health Outreach Teams
As community-based mental health services in Belgium emerged in the past decade, addressing physical health in pSMI is still challenging. Our findings suggest that there is a need for improvement in the current healthcare provision. Multidisciplinary guidelines, shared patient records, enlarging nurses' tasks, providing financial incentives and a structural integration of primary and psychiatric care were perceived as major points of improvement …
An exploration of suicidal ideation and attempts, and care use and unmet need among suicide-ideators in a Belgian population study
The prevalence of suicide attempts, suicidal ideation and unmet needs among suicide-ideators is high in this Belgian sample. Mental health care need perception in suicide ideators needs further investigation
The Belgian Integrated DEpression Care (Ideca) project
Background: Depression creates a substantial personal burden for affected individuals and their families, and produces significant economic and social hardships that affect society as a whole. In Belgium, depression is a leading cause of disability, measured as disability-adjusted life years. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly exacerbated the already substantial health and socioeconomic consequences of depression and has led to major changes in th…
Building Bridges between Pharmacy and Psychosocial Care
Pharmacists can be valuable partners in the recognition and referral of patients with unmet psychosocial needs. Structural collaborations between community pharmacy and psychosocial care should be further supported
Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops
Introduction: Despite numerous attempts to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care, patients, care providers, researchers, and governments are still looking for tools and guidance to do this more efficiently. To address these issues, we decided to develop a generic toolkit, based on sociocracy and psychological safety principles, to guide care providers in their collaboration within and outside their practice. Fina…
Assessed and self-perceived unmet needs for mental health care in the general population in Antwerp
Introduction: A public mental health care approach requires knowledge about which proportion of the population needs mental health care, and which people need it but don’t seek or receive it and why. Who is it for? We investigated (unmet) needs for mental health care in the general population to optimize the distribution of mental health care services, which benefits all Antwerp citizens who need mental health care. Involvement and engagement: Im…
The role of pharmacists in the detection and referral of patients with unmet psychosocial care needs
Community pharmacists are highly accessible care providers who are well-embedded in the community and usually have a close relationship with their patients. This places them in a good position to detect unmet psychosocial needs and refer patients to the psychosocial care services in their neighborhood. Therefore, a collaboration between community pharmacists and a psychosocial care organization was set up in Flanders (BE) to explore the potential…
Accessibility, Retention and Interactivity of Online Co-Creation Workshops
Introduction: Co-creation is becoming increasingly popular to develop interventions that can achieve results beyond scientific findings. Workshops are one of the main ways to collect data and generate ideas in co-creation, which traditionally have been conducted at a fixed, physical location. However, organising face-to-face workshops is considered challenging, due to the transportation time, low flexibility and high costs. This study aims to inv…
Operationalization of One Health Burnout Prevention and Recovery
Burnout is, besides a global, complex phenomenon, a public health issue with negative consequences on personal, organizational, social, and economic levels. This paper outlines the co-design of a novel Nature-based Burnout Coaching intervention, called NABUCO. Due to the complexity of burnout, we propose a One Health approach in healthcare, educational and governmental pilot organizations, to deliver guidelines and protocols for prevention and re…
Mental Distress and Its Contributing Factors Among Young People During the First Wave of Covid-19
Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and its associated measures led to high levels of mental distress in the general population. Previous research indicated that young people are especially vulnerable for a wide range of mental health problems during the pandemic, but little is known about the mechanisms. This study examined mental distress and its contributing factors among young Belgian people. Methods: An online survey wa…
Unmet mental health needs in the general population
Findings of epidemiological research were largely corroborated. Some additional groups with high unmet needs were identified. Professionals argued that they are often confronted with cases which are too complex for regular psychiatric care and highlighted the problem of care avoidance. Important system-level factors include waiting times of subsidized services and cost of non-subsidized services. Feelings of burden and powerlessness are common am…
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood …
Why Collaborative Care for Depressed Patients is so Difficult
Although current guidelines recommend collaborative care for severely depressed patients, few patients get adequate treatment. In this study we aimed to identify the thresholds for interdisciplinary collaboration amongst practitioners when treating severely depressed patients. In addition, we aimed to identify specific and feasible steps that may add to improved collaboration amongst first and second level Belgian health care providers when treat…
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood …
Accessibility, Retention and Interactivity of Online Co-Creation Workshops
Introduction: Co-creation is becoming increasingly popular to develop interventions that can achieve results beyond scientific findings. Workshops are one of the main ways to collect data and generate ideas in co-creation, which traditionally have been conducted at a fixed, physical location. However, organising face-to-face workshops is considered challenging, due to the transportation time, low flexibility and high costs. This study aims to inv…
Why Collaborative Care for Depressed Patients is so Difficult
Although current guidelines recommend collaborative care for severely depressed patients, few patients get adequate treatment. In this study we aimed to identify the thresholds for interdisciplinary collaboration amongst practitioners when treating severely depressed patients. In addition, we aimed to identify specific and feasible steps that may add to improved collaboration amongst first and second level Belgian health care providers when treat…
Unmet mental health needs in the general population
Findings of epidemiological research were largely corroborated. Some additional groups with high unmet needs were identified. Professionals argued that they are often confronted with cases which are too complex for regular psychiatric care and highlighted the problem of care avoidance. Important system-level factors include waiting times of subsidized services and cost of non-subsidized services. Feelings of burden and powerlessness are common am…
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Mental well-being in cities is being challenged worldwide and a more detailed understanding of how urban environments influence mental well-being is needed. This qualitative study explores neighborhood factors and their interactions in relation to mental well-being. Individual semi-structured walking interviews were conducted with 28 adults living in the Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood …
Operationalization of One Health Burnout Prevention and Recovery
Burnout is, besides a global, complex phenomenon, a public health issue with negative consequences on personal, organizational, social, and economic levels. This paper outlines the co-design of a novel Nature-based Burnout Coaching intervention, called NABUCO. Due to the complexity of burnout, we propose a One Health approach in healthcare, educational and governmental pilot organizations, to deliver guidelines and protocols for prevention and re…
Mental Distress and Its Contributing Factors Among Young People During the First Wave of Covid-19
Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and its associated measures led to high levels of mental distress in the general population. Previous research indicated that young people are especially vulnerable for a wide range of mental health problems during the pandemic, but little is known about the mechanisms. This study examined mental distress and its contributing factors among young Belgian people. Methods: An online survey wa…
Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops
Background: Despite numerous attempts to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration (IPCI) in primary care, patients, care providers, researchers, and governments are still looking for tools and guidance to do this more efficiently. To address these issues, we decided to develop a generic toolkit, based on sociocracy and psychological safety principles, to guide care providers in their collaboration within and outside their practice.…
Media coverage of Belgium’s first criminal case concerning euthanasia for psychiatric patients
Although major Flemish newspapers and magazines generally were neutral in their coverage of the judicial case, major points of contention discussed were: the need for an evaluation and possible amendments to the existing Euthanasia Law, including a revision of the Belgian Control Commission and the system of penalties for physicians, and the absence of any consensus or guidance on how to define psychological suffering
Physical Healthcare for People with a Severe Mental Illness in Belgium by Long-Term Community Mental Health Outreach Teams
As community-based mental health services in Belgium emerged in the past decade, addressing physical health in pSMI is still challenging. Our findings suggest that there is a need for improvement in the current healthcare provision. Multidisciplinary guidelines, shared patient records, enlarging nurses' tasks, providing financial incentives and a structural integration of primary and psychiatric care were perceived as major points of improvement …
An exploration of suicidal ideation and attempts, and care use and unmet need among suicide-ideators in a Belgian population study
The prevalence of suicide attempts, suicidal ideation and unmet needs among suicide-ideators is high in this Belgian sample. Mental health care need perception in suicide ideators needs further investigation
The Belgian Integrated DEpression Care (Ideca) project
Background: Depression creates a substantial personal burden for affected individuals and their families, and produces significant economic and social hardships that affect society as a whole. In Belgium, depression is a leading cause of disability, measured as disability-adjusted life years. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly exacerbated the already substantial health and socioeconomic consequences of depression and has led to major changes in th…
Building Bridges between Pharmacy and Psychosocial Care
Pharmacists can be valuable partners in the recognition and referral of patients with unmet psychosocial needs. Structural collaborations between community pharmacy and psychosocial care should be further supported
Development of a toolkit to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care using qualitative interviews and co-design workshops
Introduction: Despite numerous attempts to improve interprofessional collaboration and integration in primary care, patients, care providers, researchers, and governments are still looking for tools and guidance to do this more efficiently. To address these issues, we decided to develop a generic toolkit, based on sociocracy and psychological safety principles, to guide care providers in their collaboration within and outside their practice. Fina…
Assessed and self-perceived unmet needs for mental health care in the general population in Antwerp
Introduction: A public mental health care approach requires knowledge about which proportion of the population needs mental health care, and which people need it but don’t seek or receive it and why. Who is it for? We investigated (unmet) needs for mental health care in the general population to optimize the distribution of mental health care services, which benefits all Antwerp citizens who need mental health care. Involvement and engagement: Im…
The role of pharmacists in the detection and referral of patients with unmet psychosocial care needs
Community pharmacists are highly accessible care providers who are well-embedded in the community and usually have a close relationship with their patients. This places them in a good position to detect unmet psychosocial needs and refer patients to the psychosocial care services in their neighborhood. Therefore, a collaboration between community pharmacists and a psychosocial care organization was set up in Flanders (BE) to explore the potential…
Accessibility, Retention and Interactivity of Online Co-Creation Workshops
Introduction: Co-creation is becoming increasingly popular to develop interventions that can achieve results beyond scientific findings. Workshops are one of the main ways to collect data and generate ideas in co-creation, which traditionally have been conducted at a fixed, physical location. However, organising face-to-face workshops is considered challenging, due to the transportation time, low flexibility and high costs. This study aims to inv…
Homelessness and housing problems in admitted psychiatric patients in Flanders, Belgium
Homelessness in psychiatric patients in Flanders, Belgium, has never been investigated. Advocacy groups from patients with lived experience of psychiatric disorders have sounded the alarm on the scarcity of suitable housing options, the strain on psychiatric institutions, and the challenges faced by social service workers. To investigate the extent of the problem a survey on the topic was initiated. A “homelessness-in-mental-health-questionnaire”…
Fine-tuning the practical relevance of a quality framework for integrated nature-based interventions in healthcare facilities. A qualitative interview study
Introduction: Integrated nature-based interventions in healthcare facilities are gaining importance as promising health and biodiversity promotion strategies. This type of interventions combines the restoration of biodiversity in the vicinity of the healthcare facility with guiding patients in that natural environment for health outcomes. However, quality appraisal of these interventions is still poorly developed. Based on a recent scoping review…
Bridging Pharmacy and Psychosocial Care
Introduction: Since 2021, project #CAVAsa strengthens the collaboration between community pharmacists and psychosocial care in Flanders (Belgium) as pharmacists are trained to identify and assist citizens with unmet psychosocial needs. This project highlights the role of pharmacists outside medication-related practice. Who’s it for? Pharmacists are accessible primary care providers who regularly engage with vulnerable individuals: people experien…
Behavioural Change in Practice
Reflective practice is vital for aligning PCPs' behaviour with GOC. Involvement of all colleagues and dedicated time for reflection promote team alignment and consistency in achieving patients' personal goals
Integrated depression care (Ideca) project
Background: Depression in Belgium is the number one reason for disability-adjusted life years lost. Unmet care needs are plenty, partly caused by a lack of care integration. Integration of mental health services within primary care can be achieved through strengthening general medical practice with a dedicated mental health professional working across care lines. Estimating the direct budget impact of such a care model is pivotal for its sustaina…
Goal-Oriented Care in Action
Background: Healthcare systems globally are shifting towards person-centred integrated care (PC-IC) to better support individuals with complex, long-term needs. Goal-oriented care (GOC), which aligns care with patients' personal goals and preferences, is one approach to care delivery which can support person-centred integrated care. However, applying GOC in practice requires interprofessional primary care teams to adopt new routines and skills. T…
Medicine (16 obras) · Nursing (13 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Mental health (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Health care (9 obras) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (8 obras) · Qualitative research (8 obras) · Population (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras)