"Purpose – Despite the rising number of females in forensic psychiatry, research about their characteristics remains limited and is currently lacking in Belgium. Optimizing knowledge about the characteristics of these women will lead to a better understanding of this specific group. Therefore, the aim …

Background: Around 13% of the world’s population suffers from obesity. More than 40% of people with obesity display emotional eating behaviour (eating in response to negative emotions or distress). It is an alternate to more effective coping strategies for negative emotions. Our study explored the opportunities …

Obesity has become a major societal problem worldwide [1][2]. The main reason for severe overweight is excessive intake of energy, in relation to the individual needs of a human body. Obesity is associated with poor eating habits and/or a sedentary lifestyle. A significant part of the obese population …

There is a growing number of eHealth interventions aiming at enhancing lifestyle to address obesity. However, the existing interventions do not take the emotional aspects of obesity into account. Forty percent of the overweight population is an emotional eater. Emotional eaters gain weight because of …

Obesity is a fast-growing societal threat, causing chronic conditions, physical and psychological health problems, as well as sickness absence and heavy healthcare costs. Despite numerous attempts to promote physical activity and healthy diet, existing interventions do not focus on the common emotional …

Obesity is a fast growing societal threat, causing chronic conditions, physical and psychological health problems, as well as absenteeism and large healthcare costs. Despite numerous attempts to promote physical activity and healthy diet, existing interventions do not focus on often occurring emotional …

Which components are essential for developing the online version of the DBT intervention to be an effective equivalent of the existing face-to-face DBT? Presentation, held during the Symposium Emotional Eating, 14th European Congress of Psychology in Milan, Italy, 7-10 July 2015.

E-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: online training for obese emotional eaters.Presentatie Eur. Congres Psychology Milano 2015, symposium emotional eaters.

Presentatie voor studenten in het Agile project .Datum: 01 oktober 2014Plaats: GroningenThema 4.1 Software Engineering

Which components are essential for developing the online version of the DBT intervention to be an effective equivalent of the existing face-to-face DBT? Presentation, held during the New Year Conference KCO-January 2014.