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Aranka Dol doet onderzoek naar virtual personalized coachingssystemenvoor o.a. emotie eters. Emotie eten wordt beschouwd als een risicofactorvoor gewichtstoename, obesitas en eetstoornissen en wordt gezien als eenbelangrijk symptoom van overeten en eetbuien. Het onderzoek richt zich ophet tegengaan van emotioneel eten, hier gedefinieerd als de drang tot (over)eten als reactie op negatieve emoties. Er wordt onderzocht hoe emotie eterskunnen worden bijgestaan als zorgverlening niet beschikbaar is, door onderandere het aanbieden van bij de probleemsituaties (het ervaren van cravings,en het hebben toegegeven aan een eetbui) passende coaching.
Obesity is a complex problem worldwide. This chronic condition has many different causes. One of them is emotional eating. In about 40% of overweight people, emotional eating plays a major role. Emotional eating is the tendency to (over)eat in response to negative emotions such as stress or irritability. The target group is at a distance from care - due to shame they do not dare to seek help. Within the mental health services there are long waiting lists.The goal of this dissertation is to gain knowledge to support emotional eaters in coping with emotional eating behavior in a self-help setting that is appropriate to the time and context. To achieve this, we need to better understand the needs of emotional eaters in terms of virtual coaching and self-management. We formulated the following research question, "How can virtual coaching facilitate emotional eaters to cope with self-management of their emotional eating behavior?"Knowledge was gathered about their wishes regarding virtual support. Based on this, personas were developed, labeled with emotions, that give shape to the two prototypical problem situations of the emotional eater: 1) experiencing cravings, and 2) giving in to those cravings through binge or overeating.Participants recognized themselves in the problem situations presented, and that there is a need for virtual coaching and for greater understanding of one's own emotions and emotion regulation skills.Research was conducted on the possibilities surrounding the customized delivery of exercises in emotion regulation, which revealed that people mentioned the potential of the exercises, but that their presentation needed improvement.Virtual coaching is potentially successful for this group; participants showed themselves to be accessible and visible; there was openness and outspokenness by the participants about situations presented, etc.; there was goodwill towards digital coaching and doing exercises; the participants also showed themselves to be competent in doing exercises independently.The chance of success with regard to the development of a virtual coach has increased because the target group is open to virtual coaching where future users can work independently with their problems.
Uitgave, onder verantwoordelijkheid van het Lectoraat New Business & ICT, met bijdragen van onder andere lector Hugo Velthuijsen (onder andere voorwoord) en Franz Josef Gellert. Tekst van Bureau Brouwers. Dit boekje biedt een overzicht van de projecten die het lectoraat New Business & ICT gedurende de eerste vijf jaar van zijn bestaan heeft uitgevoerd. Het geeft een beeld van de ruime kennis en ervaring die door praktijkgericht onderzoek en samenwerking met de beroepspraktijk is opgebouwd. Het boekje is ook een inspiratiebron voor het bedenken van nieuwe toepassingen van e-health.