UCSC - EngageMinds Hub - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Founded in 1921, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) is the largest non-state university in Europe with 12 Faculties, five campuses across Italy (Milan, Rome, Piacenza, Cremona and Brescia). UCSC is highly engaged in multidisciplinary research projects both at national and international level.
The Engageminds Hub – Consumer, Food & Health Engagement Research Center is active on two UCSC campuses: Milan and Cremona. The center focuses on studying and promoting citizen engagement (consumers, patients, families...) in health and food related processes. It aims to empower citizens/patients and patient organizations, encouraging active and responsible participation in well-being and healthcare management.
EngageMinds HUB is the first Italian multidisciplinary research center to promoting and implementing scientific activities - inspired by the principles of consumer health psychology - related to the engagement in health behaviors (es. primary and secondary prevention, health promotion, management of health care) and to the study of people’s engagement in food choices and habits.
The activities of EngageMinds HUB are carried out with the collaboration among professors, researchers and qualified experts from different disciplinary sectors (psychology; agricultural, food and environmental sciences; economics; medicine; law; sociology; banking sciences) at national and international level, aiming to foster trans-disciplinarity and cross-cultural comparison.
Role within PerPrev-CID
EngageMinds Hub - USCS leads the WP 17 intitled “Patient engagement measurement and promotion” focussed on the impact of psycho-social factors, fatigue and patient engagement on clinically relevant disease outcomes, including disease progression. The psychosocial measurement results will be translated to optimized patient communication materials.
The EngageMinds Hub team is also involved in other WPs, leading specific tasks on WP16 (Stakeholder engagement and involvement) and WP 18 (Effectiveness of communication strategies and development of ethicolegal and economic guidelines).