LONELY-EU: Providing Social Support and Health: Conditions and Temporal Dynamics
The project, financed by a Horizon grant provided by the European Commission, brings together six European universities and research labs. The work carried out within the project is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Principal Investigator: Professor Katarzyna Growiec.
Financed by: Horizon Europe program (HORIZON-CL2-2024-TRANSFORMATIONS-01), project no. 101177225.
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Usability and application of the Polish version of the Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS) questionnaire
Research conducted in collaboration with Center for Research on Social Relations (Prof. Magdalena Formanowicz) and MSB Medical School Berlin (Dr. Karolina Kolodziejczak-Krupp). We are investigating the acceptability and usefulness of the Polish version of the Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS) questionnaire, which is used to collect demographic data in scientific research in an inclusive manner, taking into account the diversity of study participants.
Principal Investigator: Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.
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PROSPECT: The Social Isolation and Loneliness in Europe Network: Evidence-Based Policy Recommendations on its Causes, Consequences and Monitoring
The study is carried out in collaboration with MSB Medical School Berlin (leaders of the German part of the project: Professor Lisa Marie Warner and Professor Simone Grimm). The team examines the conditions, which are beneficial from the point of view of the person providing support, and tests the dynamically changing health outcomes resulting from support provided by persons from general population in the so-called symmetrical dyads.
Principal Investigators: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska and Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.
Financed by: the National Science Centre and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; project no. 2020/39/G/HS6/02216.
Meaning-reconstruction process in cancer: the role of psychological flexibility. Intensive longitudinal and experimental studies
The team verifies a new theoretical model developed through expanding the traditional integrative meaning-making model of coping by a model of psychological flexibility derived from the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Principal Investigator: Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.
Project financed by the National Science Centre; project no. 2020/39/B/HS6/01927.
HIV/AIDS stigma and its mechanisms among people living with HIV: The role of minority stress and social support in two temporal perspectives.
The project is carried out by a consortium including the University of Warsaw (Principal Investigator: Professor Marcin Rzeszutek). The researchers examine psychological and social determinates of HIV/AIDS stigma among people living with HIV/AIDS.
Principal Investigator from SWPS University: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska.
Financed by: the National Science Centre; project no. 2019/35/B/HS6/00141.
MEDFAKE: Building trust in immunization, using the latest tools of communication and social influence
The project is carried out in collaboration with partners of a consortium that includes: Centrum Medyczne Kształcenia Podyplomowego (Center for Postgraduate Medical Education) – project leader, the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), and Kozminski University. The goals of the project include:
- Developing influencing tools for encouraging women to make conscious decisions concerning child immunization, applicable in relationships between medical experts (doctors and midwives) and women carrying their firs uncomplicated pregnancies
- Developing assumptions and tools for an educational campaign, introducing the topic of fake news identification into the public debate, addressed to parents who refuse to vaccine their children.
Leading investigator: Professor Jolanta Życińska, Principal Investigator: Professor Dariusz Doliński
Financed by: the National Centre for Research and Development, project no. GOSPOSTRATEG-II/0007/2020).
SAFEST: A novel project examining the social transmission of vaccination beliefs and attitudes.
The project is carried out in collaboration with the University of Cyprus (Principal Investigator: Angelos P. Kassianos) and financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus (Research and Innovation Foundation). The researchers investigate specific and universal factors related to people’s readiness to get vaccinated against SARS CoV-2. The study is carried out in six European countries.
Principal Investigator from SWPS University: Professor Ewa Gruszczyńska
Trajectories of Coping with Illness: a multilevel analysis in a patient-partner dyads.
The researchers test bidirectional dynamic relationships between the variables of the coping process: individual (specific self-efficacy) and social (social support) resources as well as coping strategies, emotions (positive and negative), and somatic symptoms. The research perspective includes the interpersonal context: the study of patient-partner dyads in cases of hematopoietic cells transplant.
Principal Investigator: Professor Aleksandra Kroemeke.
Financed by: the National Science Centre; project no. 2013/10/E/HS6/00189.
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