About

Mission

We are building a psychology-driven, multidisciplinary research lab dedicated to advancing patient empowerment and improving quality of life for individuals living with chronic diseases.

Vision

Render the point of view of health psychology as an integral part of healthcare processes in chronic diseases

 

Domains & subdomains

Chronic Diseases
  1. Experience of Illness and Treatment
  2. Illness and Treatment Beliefs
  3. Treatment Adherence
  4. Mapping of Clinical and Psychological characteristics
  5. Adaptation & Validation of Psychological Tools
Empowerment
  1. Patient education, Self-management, Support
  2. Patient preferences and Shared decision-making
  3. HCP Communication Training
Patient-centered Care
  1. Needs Assessment
  2. Supportive Care Interventions
  3. Patient Reported Οutcomes
  4. Quality of Life
Digital Psychological Tools
  1. ePROs
  2. Mindfulness training
  3. Wearables for health care and wellbeing
Online Social Media research
  1. Health misinformation
  2. Internalized, perceived, and public stigma
  3. Social innovation through social media
Natural Language Generation for patient-facing texts
  1. Knowledge Graphs to model health literacy and cultural competence
  2. Informed, patient-friendly and culturally aware language
  3. Curated and personalized content to facilitate empowerment
  4. Annotations from domain experts to enable AI