Department: Clinical Psychology (UU) 

Organisation: Association of Dutch Burn Centres, Utrecht University

Country: The Netherlands

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Biography

Marthe completed her bachelor in Pedagogical Science at Utrecht University, after which she graduated cum laude from the research master ‘Development and Socialisation in Childhood and Adolescence’. Still not tired of studying, she obtained her clinical master in ‘Orthopedagogiek’, after which she worked as a mental health clinician for a year. She started her PhD trajectory at the Association of Dutch Burn Centres in August 2014. 

Research topic

Marthe Egberts is a PhD candidate at the Association of Dutch Burn Centres in Beverwijk and at the department of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University. Together with Nancy van Loey, Rinie Geenen and Peter van der Heijden, Rens is involved in her PhD project as supervisor. Marthe’s project is focused on psychological consequences of pediatric burn injury. She primarily examines child and parent posttraumatic stress reactions with the use of prospective data and advanced statistical modelling (such as multilevel and structural equation models). The other part of her project has a more qualitative nature and is focused on the impact of parental presence during child wound care procedures. 

Funding

The PhD project is funded by the Dutch Burns Foundation.

Projects involved

Child and adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems 12 months postburn: the potential role of preburn functioning, parental posttraumatic stress, and informant bias

Adjustment after pediatric burn injury may be a challenge for children as well as their parents. This prospective study examined associations of internalizing and externalizing problems in children and adolescents 12 months postburn with preburn functioning, and parental acute and chronic posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) from different perspectives.