On January 12th, 2022, Healthcare published our latest peer-reviewed research on Heart Rate Variability (HRV). The paper is titled “Trends in Daily Heart Rate Variability Fluctuations Are Associated with Longitudinal Changes in Stress and Somatisation in Police Officers” and is part of a special issue on Mental and Behavioral Healthcare. In this blogpost, I will… Continue reading Relating daily HRV fluctuations to stress & somatisation
Publication: buffering effect of HRV in the stressor-strain process
This week, JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research) Cardio published our paper ‘Moderation of the Stressor-Strain Process in Interns by Heart Rate Variability Measured With a Wearable and Smartphone App: Within-Subject Design Using Continuous Monitoring‘. In this blogpost, I’ll attempt to break down the paper’s key findings in relatively lay language. This paper is part… Continue reading Publication: buffering effect of HRV in the stressor-strain process
Lecture for Health & Technology
This week, I gave a lecture for the minor Global Health and Quantified Self at the Hanze University. The lecture was part of the ‘Health & Technology’ module and was an introductory lecture about influencing behavior, habits and lifestyle using digital health tools. After defining these, I discussed existing theories on behavior change to set… Continue reading Lecture for Health & Technology
New function at TNO
Currently, I am modeling the resilience of employees based on data that was measured using wearables and apps for my PhD. Although I am formally employed by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, my PhD trajectory is a collaboration with the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and TNO. During my PhD I have been participating… Continue reading New function at TNO
Competencies for working with Digital Health
Digital Health is a hot topic in times of Covid19, but what competencies does a professional actually need when working with Digital Health tools? I wrote a blog about the topic for the website of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences where I look into some of the literature on the topic and provide some… Continue reading Competencies for working with Digital Health