Admission requirements
Open to all master students Psychology. The course provides a broad view on eHealth in a diverse range of health care settings.
Description
This course provides an introduction to what eHealth, or digital health, encompasses and how it can be used to enhance and improve health care in several different areas. The lectures in this course provide a broad overview of eHealth tools and applications within a wide range of health care settings. In each lecture, the use of eHealth in a different field in health care is explored, showing students current interventions, how they work, their effectiveness, and how they are deployed in health practice. Topics that are addressed are (a.o.) prevention and lifestyle interventions, chronic care and self-management, rehabilitation tools, and mental health care. Within these topics a wide range of eHealth functionalities is addressed, such as online treatment, smartphone applications, serious gaming, web portals, and blended forms of eHealth. We also discuss the ethical and practical annotations of this form of health care and its implementation in daily clinical practice.
Besides exhibiting existing eHealth applications and interventions, we focus more theoretically on how to develop and design eHealth. Questions such as; ‘How do you make sure to connect to needs and skills of your target group?’, and ‘How can you achieve that an eHealth tool is taken up in the care process and will be actively used?’ are addressed. To bring this knowledge into practice, students develop their own eHealth prototype modules in small unsupervised subgroups, outside of the lectures. This course provides students with knowledge and skills on a topic with increasing impact in health care, which puts them in a forerunner position regarding innovative (online) interventions, treatment delivery and implementation strategies.
Course objectives
Students have knowledge about the basic principles of eHealth and the use of eHealth in different health care settings, related to Health-, Medical and Neuropsychology.
Students have knowledge about a broad range of eHealth tools, interventions and functionalities and how they are used to improve health care.
Students have knowledge about theory and research on how to develop, implement and evaluate eHealth applications.
Students have practical experience with developing an eHealth module that fits the needs and skills of their target group.
Timetable
For the timetable of this course please refer to MyTimetable
Registration
NOTE As of the academic year 2021-2022, you must register for all courses in uSis.
You do this twice a year: once for the courses you want to take in semester 1 and once for the courses you want to take in semester 2.
Registration for courses in the first semester is possible from early August. Registration for courses in the first semester is possible from December. The exact date on which the registration starts will be published on the website of the Student Service Center (SSC)
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Also read the complete registration procedure
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Mode of instruction
The course contains 8 meetings of 2 hours each: six lectures, one feedback lecture and one poster presentation meeting (attendance of all meetings is obligatory). Also, there are unsupervised workgroups.. .
Course overview:
Seven lectures of 2 hours: to cover the relevant literature, provide knowledge about eHealth in health care and discuss theory about eHealth development, implementation and evaluation.
One poster presentation meeting of 2 hours: every subgroup presents their own prototype eHealth intervention.
Unsupervised workgroups: to practice in developing online modules and test these modules within the target group. Students make their own planning regarding when and where to work on the assignment together with their subgroup, based on a concrete outline in the course reader and information and support in the lectures. Tutoring/supervision is available during the course to discuss questions or problems with a supervisor.
Assessment
Grading will be based on three assessments:
1. Writing a group report on the developmental process of the module, incorporating scientific literature and what is learned during the lectures (grade);
2. Group poster presentation of the eHealth prototype module in the last lecture session of the course (grade);
3. Individual short essay to reflect on an eHealth related topic in line with the developed prototype intervention (grade).
Students have to pass all parts of the assessment. Grading will be based on the poster presentation (20%), the paper (60%) and the essay (20%).
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has instituted that instructors use a software programme for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. In case of fraud disciplinary actions will be taken. Please see the information concerning fraud.
Reading list
eHealth Research, Theory and Development: a multidisciplinary approach (2018). 1st edition. Routledge: Oxford (freely online available via University Library)
Course reader (will be made available on Brightspace)
Contact
Dr. Sylvia van Beugen
Unit of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology
Room 2A03
Tel: +31(0)715274047
s.van.beugen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl