About Me
Tessa Dekkers is a lecturer at the department of Psychology, Health and Technology. She wrote her PhD-thesis 'Data-driven Patient Profiles: Definition, validation, and implementation for tailored orthopaedic healthcare services' at the department of Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology.
Tessa enjoys interdisciplinary research and draws inspiration from her broad training in (health-) psychology and design science. Her main research interests include the role of personalisation and customization in intervention design, patient experience, and eHealth implementation. She is also a self-identified data and methodology geek and will spend many a night coding online field experiments or predictive models. As an avid fan of personalized media and amateur film critic, she maintains the website filmoftheday.nl to help users find tailored movie recommendations in her spare time.
Expertise
Organisations
Publications
Dekkers, T., Melles, M., Groeneveld, B. S., & de Ridder, H. (2018). Web-based patient education in orthopedics: systematic review. Journal of medical Internet research, 20(4), e143.
Dekkers, T., Melles, M., Mathijssen, N. M., Vehmeijer, S. B., & de Ridder, H. (2018). Tailoring the orthopaedic consultation: How perceived patient characteristics influence surgeons’ communication. Patient education and counseling, 101(3), 428-438.
Dekkers, T., & Hertroijs, D. F. (2018). Tailored Healthcare: Two Perspectives on the Development and Use of Patient Profiles. Advances in therapy, 35(9), 1453-1459.
Groeneveld, B., Melles, M., Vehmeijer, S., Mathijssen, N., Dekkers, T., & Goossens, R. (2019). Developing digital applications for tailored communication in orthopaedics using a Research through Design approach. Digital health, 5, 2055207618824919.
Groeneveld, B., Dekkers, T., Boon, B., & D’Olivo, P. (2018). Challenges for design researchers in healthcare. Design for Health, 2(2), 305-326.
Kwasnicka, D., Inauen, J., Nieuwenboom, W., Nurmi, J., Schneider, A., Short, C. E., ... & Picariello, F. (2019). Challenges and solutions for N-of-1 design studies in health psychology. Health psychology review, 13(2), 163-178.
de Ridder, E. F., Dekkers, T., Porsius, J. T., Kraan, G., & Melles, M. (2018). The perioperative patient experience of hand and wrist surgical patients: An exploratory study using patient journey mapping. Patient Experience Journal, 5(3), 97-107.
van Smoorenburg, A. N., Hertroijs, D. F., Dekkers, T., Elissen, A. M., & Melles, M. (2019). Patients’ perspective on self-management: type 2 diabetes in daily life. BMC health services research, 19(1), 1-8.
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Affiliated Study Programmes
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Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands