dr. T. Dekkers (Tessa)

Assistant Professor
BMS-HIB-PGT
t.dekkers@utwente.nl
+31534899741
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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

  • Psychology

    • Mental Illness
    • Health

  • Social Sciences

    • Intervention
    • Design
    • Effectiveness
    • Consumers

  • Nursing and Health Professions

    • Control
    • Experiment

Organisations

Publications

2023
A Mobile Self-control Training App to Improve Self-control and Physical Activity in People With Severe Mental Illness: Protocol for 2 Single-Case Experimental Designs, Article e37727. Dekkers, T., Heirbaut, T., Schouten, S. E., Kelders, S. M., Beerlage-de Jong, N., Ludden, G. D. S., Deenik, J., Bouman, Y. H. A. & Kip, H.https://doi.org/10.2196/37727Developing a Digital Medication Adherence Intervention for and With Patients With Asthma and Low Health Literacy: Protocol for a Participatory Design Approach, Article e35112. Faber, J. S., Poot, C. C., Dekkers, T., Herrera, N. R., Chavannes, N. H., Meijer, E. & Visch, V. T.https://doi.org/10.2196/35112Persuasive Co-Design of Self-Control Intervention App (SCIPP) for People with Severe Mental IllnessIn PERSUASIVE-ADJ 2023, : Persuasive 2023 Adjunct Proceedings. Dekkers, T., Heirbaut, T., Schouten, S. & Kip, H.
2022
Best-practices for co-design processes involving people with severe mental illness for eMental health interventions: a qualitative multi-method approach, 316-344. Schouten, S., Kip, H., Dekkers, T., Deenik, J., Beerlage - de Jong, N., Ludden, G. D. S. & Kelders, S. M.https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2145814
2021
Effects of information architecture on the effectiveness and user experience of web-based patient education in middle-aged and older adults: Online randomized experiment, Article e15846. Dekkers, T., Melles, M., Vehmeijer, S. B. W. & de Ridder, H.https://doi.org/10.2196/15846

Other contributions

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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