January
ECHORM Journal Club

Ann-Kristin Porth will facilitate an interesting conversation in which she will discuss one of her papers, titled “putting person-centered care into practice: two psychological care pathways based on outcome preferences of people with diabetes and healthcare professionals”.  This article shows two care pathways that follow a stepped approach, starting with the assessment of psychological well-being and quality of life and proceeding from there. This approach shows promise to facilitate the implementation of person-centred psychosocial diabetes care by reducing the burden and making psychosocial issues more accessible. Find out how these psychosocial care pathways, that reflect the outcome preferences of patients and healthcare providers, were designed and how to utilize the pathways to approach psychosocial problems in consultations. 

Ann-Kristin Porth

Ann-Kristin Porth is currently finishing as a PhD candidate from the Medical University of Vienna. Her research focus has been on applied clinical reserach, in particular on person-centered care for diabetes, which is also the topic of her disseration. Ann-Kristin was born near Hamburg, Germany and studied Medicine at the Technical University of Munich, where she gained first experiences in basic research investigating experiential methods of radiotherapy in mice and cells. When she moved to Vienna she briefly worked at a diabetes practice before deciding to try another round of research at the Medical University of Vienna. She is very interested in qualitative and mixed qualitative and quantitative research and is currently transitioning to aging research.