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FOUCART Jennifer
Units
Health and Human Motor Psychology Research Unit
Person in charge of the Unit : Oui
The main orientations are as follow: 1. sport psychology : Studying the psychological components of performance; the use of sport as a vehicle for social integration; doping and addiction in sport; decision-making in the athlete's 2.Caregiver-care Relationship: improved caregiver-care communication, touch psychophysiology, impact of placebo on painful management and performance; improved patient well-being, use of medical hypnosis on painful management 3. Psychomotricity : influence of environmental factors on the normal and pathological child's psychomotricity; study of body pattern and body image in normal and pathological situations (including eating disorders)
ULB Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Sports
Person in charge of the Unit : Oui
U-IRIS is intended to bring together research skills existing at ULB in the fields of sports and physical activity in order to stimulate collaboration and interdisciplinary research. The research carried out within U-IRIS could be the basis of evidence-based advice in various fields of sport and physical activity. ULB and each of U-IRIS partner groups, as well as their existing activities, platforms, infrastructures and collaborations, will gain in visibility, both internally and externally in a promising and rapidly evolving field. The research carried out by U-IRIS is designed to be both fundamental and applied. It is developed around five major axes: - clinics / sports medicine - high level sports / performance - rehabilitation / handicap and sports - sports and society (including education through sports) - prevention / public health / nutrition. The groups participating in U-IRIS represent the Faculties of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Medicine, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Motor Sciences, the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, the School of Public Health, the Research Department, ULB-Sports and the Erasme Academic Hospital.
Projetcs
Etude la communication soignant-soigné et interprofessionnelle
The interdisciplinary Chair in Primary Care has been made possible thanks to the support of the Dr Daniël De Coninck Fund, managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, which is granting it a sum of 2.5 million over five years. At the same time, a Flemish Chair, the Primary Care Academy, was launched. In this Chair, ULB was able to obtain funding shared between the ESP, the FM and the FSM. The Chair is made up of 3 universities (ULB, UCL and ULg) and 3 Hautes Ecoles (Hennalux, Ilya Prigogine and Parnasse). The activities of the French-speaking Chair are based around four central themes; these themes frequently overlap, particularly when it comes to people living in complex situations, especially those linked to financial, relational or social insecurity, or when mental health problems arise. For the FSM, the Health and Human Motor Psychology research unit is working in collaboration with the Osteopathic Sciences Research Unit (URSO). While the URSO is interested in integrating complex patients into the front line, the Health and Human Motor Psychology research unit is studying innovative teaching methods aimed at developing interprofessional collaboration. In the context of this expertise, we have submitted two projects for funding in 2021 to Innoviris (in collaboration with the URSO) and to the FRB in collaboration with the U liège: Première ligne du soins et promotion de la santé : vers une articulation des approches dans la formation des professionnel-les (First line of care and health promotion: towards an articulation of approaches in the training of professionals).
"J.O.E.U.R.S de Cureghem" - Sciences MUNDI
Jeunes Ouverts à l'Univers des Etudes et à l'Univers de la Recherche Scientifique" en collaboration avec l'Unité de Recherche en Psychologie de la Santé et de la Motricité humaine (FSMH) et la Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles (HELB)
Study of normal and pathologic psychomotricity
- Study of normal and pathologic psychomotricity
Several years ago, we developed a collaborative project with the non-profit organisation FEFA. This not-for-profit organisation works with children from a socio-economically disadvantaged area of Brussels (where over 52% of 18-25 year-olds are unemployed), who are at real risk of dropping out of school. It uses sport and its values to help these young people develop and integrate. Since the project was set up, the school failure rate for children attending the FEFA has fallen from 40% to 22%. However, these figures need to be refined by a more in-depth study of the effect of the various schemes on dimensions broader than just failure or success at school. A study has therefore been set up to evaluate the scheme from different angles in order to gain a better understanding of the impact of these preventive measures, which include sport. The second stage of the project is called Les J.O.U.E.U.R.S de Cureghem - ‘Jeunes Ouverts à l'Univers des Etudes et à l'Univers de la Recherche Scientifique’. The aim of J.O.U.E.U.R.S is to link the FEFA non-profit association and its societal objectives of using sport to support young people from so-called at-risk populations, with the world of sport-related science and higher education in sport via the ULB and HELB Ilya Prigogine association. Its aim is to offer young people from disadvantaged backgrounds a new vision of science and of scientific studies as part of a practical application in the field of sport. The main aim of this project was to reconsider the value of science in secondary education and the possibility of pursuing higher education in this field. Project funded by Innoviris in collaboration with Prof. V. Faoro's cardiophysiology research unit. At present, this collaboration with the FEFA is continuing with various dissertations on this subject.
Projet communication et dispositif pédagogique innovant
Funded by ULB's FEE, the Health and Human Motor Psychology research unit initiated and coordinated the Health Unit's Immersive Learning Project to create a digital learning tool using digital storytelling to simulate situations involving interaction between carers and patients. Digital storytelling combines the creation of communication scenarios including text, images and filmed scenes. In order to create these teaching tools, a committee of experts was set up, including various carers from the ULB Health Centre, as well as a patient-partner, students and educationalists. The Adobe Acrobat programme was used and the films were shot with actors. 5 themes are addressed and 18 Immersive Learning exercises have been created. - Motivational interviewing - Managing aggression - Breaking bad news - End of life Interprofessional collaboration These teaching aids are currently part of a research programme aimed at evaluating their effectiveness. To take these studies on interpersonal and interprofessional communication a step further, Maxime Etenaille has submitted a doctoral project for the 2021 academic year. We have also joined the international EACH and REACH expert group, which centralises research and teaching on communication in healthcare.
Projet PFS - Création d'un Master en Psychomotricité / Université Evangélique d'Afrique
Northern Coordination of the PFS Project - Creation of a Master's degree in Psychomotricity / Psychotrauma option At present, the population of the DRC is exposed to numerous and repeated traumas that lead to mental and physical after-effects. Under a previous partnership, UNIKIN set up a Certificate in Psychotraumatology to train professionals in the acute management of such trauma. This new project is in response to a request from the UEA in Bukavu to create an additional master's degree that could train professionals in the field, rooted in the community, to develop post-trauma rehabilitation initiatives that meet local needs. As part of this request, the aim of our project is to help the UEA Bukavu to create a complementary master's degree in psychomotricity aimed at holders of a master's degree in health or social sciences (Bac+5) involved in helping communities exposed to acute and/or complex and chronic trauma. Psychomotricity is a tool that is particularly well-suited to the local context and to the types of trauma encountered, which combine psychological suffering and multiple disabilities. The teaching will combine face-to-face practical modules and semi-face theoretical modules using digital tools that the students will be trained to use. The training also includes the setting up of community-based student projects to introduce this type of practice within the target populations. These projects will also be disseminated and supported by modern information and communication technologies. On a scientific level, the project includes an academic scientific wing, with the supervision of 3 doctoral students and research work on the specific traumatic nature of this region (psychology), its treatment (psychomotricity) and its integration at local level, taking into account the participation of women (health promotion, community health).
Development of an intention implementation application for the rehabilitation of athletes This application proposes a series of questions designed to encourage patient compliance and to monitor the patient's performance of rehabilitation exercises at home. The patient is asked to assess the pain he or she is experiencing following rehabilitation exercises (physiotherapy), which then enables the practitioner to monitor the patient's progress (and follow-up) between physiotherapy sessions. Ultimately, the aim of the application is to enable patients to be monitored more effectively by their physiotherapist. At this stage, the application has been developed specifically for patients who have undergone cruciate ligament surgery. This application has been developed on the basis of an initial intention implementation application in the field of object diets.
The first part of this programme aims to study the influence of different environmental or organic factors on the psychomotor development of the child. Examples include 1/ The influence of screens on psychomotor development, 2/ The influence of abuse on psychomotor development, 3/ The influence of repeated trauma on psychomotor development in the DRC. It is taking the form of collaboration with the DRC and UEA (Université Evangélique d'Afrique de Bukavu) as part of ARES-PFS funding for the ‘creation of a complementary master's degree in psychomotricity - psycho-trauma option’ at UEA, involving the supervision of three PhD students in this context (starting in September 2022). The second part of this line of research focuses on the influence of pre-locomotor strategies on later cognitive and psychomotor development. It is being carried out as part of a doctoral thesis by Ms Erell Filloque. The third dimension of this theme is linked to clinical research carried out in collaboration with the Erasme Hospital. Firstly, with its neonatal department: Influence of babywearing on the child's motor skills and the mother-child relationship. But also with the CRFNI at Erasme. He is more specifically interested in children with pervasive developmental disorders. He is studying the influence of psychomotor care on shared attention skills in children with pervasive developmental disorders.
Amélioration du bien-être des patients et étude de satisfaction dans les soins de santé
The Health and Human Motor Psychology Research Unit is regularly called upon to carry out research into improving health care conditions in order to improve the quality of life, well-being and satisfaction of patients suffering from various pathologies. This specificity, linked to the teaching of psychology within the faculty, has gradually led us to develop expertise in this field. Improving communication as well as the various techniques for improving pain management and the experience of disease are recurring themes studied within our research unit. (external private funding via requests for expertise). They are also reflected in doctoral theses and the creation of training courses (hypnosis): Example: From intensive care to attentive care / Dissertation project, Marianne Devroye In collaboration with the intensive care unit at the Erasme Hospital, this project has been running for 3 years and culminated this year in the launch of Marianne Devroye's doctoral thesis project, co-promoted by Prof. Foucart and Prof. Preiser and partly subsidised by the Erasme Fund. This thesis covers several areas (follow-up, setting up a logbook and the use of hypnosis in IS). Our growing knowledge in this field has also enabled us to set up a continuing education programme in hypnosis.
Alleviate Stigma, Train, Enhance smoking cessations interventions, rely on a specially -zed Netrworks Project aimed to promote smoking cessation among people suffering from mental disorders by supporting healthcare professionnals in Switzerland under the direction of Prof. Khazaal, responsible of the creation of the online training module for healthcare professionnals.
To study the links between mental health and drug use or abuse in order the establish guidelines for therapeutic interventions
Projects from CV
The UR in Psychophysiology of Motricity has set itself 3 central research themes: - Psychomotricity and body image. This theme focuses on the impact of environmental factors (including psychotrauma) and organic factors on psychomotor aspects and body image. But also on the contribution of body-psychological and psychomotor approaches to mental health and well-being. - psychology of sport and physical activity. This theme covers both the psychological factors that can enhance sports performance and the impact of sport on mental health, including well-being and social integration. - Humanization in healthcare. This theme focuses on the well-being of patients and caregivers, including the various interventions that can improve this. In this theme, particular emphasis is placed on training caregivers in the dimensions of professional and inter-professional communication with a view to improving the humanization of care.
