Prof. Dr. Christina Ramsenthaler, Dipl.-Psych. MSc PhD

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

• Professur Methodologie und Methoden
• Leiterin der SENIORS-Projekte

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

The focus of my research strategy is: patient-centred outcome measures (PCOMs) in various disease groups (palliative care, older people, community care, acute care, intersectionality), how they can be used to foster patient-centred care for professionals and informal caregivers, & how they can be developed and implemented for maximum and sustainable clinical utility. I work with PCOMs at both the individual and the population level to guide individual care, but also to monitor care quality, transitions and intersectionality, and investigate the effects of social inequality on healthcare systems nationally and internationally. Central to my work is the development of the logic model of using PCOMs as an intervention, understanding the structure, processes and outcomes which are needed and can be affected by employing PCOMs routinely. The target populations of my research are healthcare professionals of various disciplines and informal caregivers. Methodologically, I am further developing methods and methodology regarding: the use of routine data and their validity for investigating epidemiological effects and outcomes; the use of big data to monitor unmet needs; new psychometric approaches for investigating the measurement error associated with proxy assessment; new psychometric methods within an item response theory and a structural equation modelling framework for investigating the longitudinal construct validity and minimally important difference of PCOMs; quantitative methods for hybrid trials within implementation research.

Lehrtätigkeit

• Quantitative Methoden 1 (Modulverantwortliche, MSc Nursing)
• Quantitative Methoden 2 (Modulverantwortliche, MSc Nursing)
• Masterthesis Kolloquium
• Methodenvertiefung
• Statistical models with R (Joint PhD programme, USZ, UZH & ZHAW)
• B4 Case Study Research (MSc Nursing)

Berufserfahrung

• Dozentin
  Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, UK
  03 / 2020 - heute
• Visiting Scholar of Research Methods and Statistics
  Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK
  01 / 2017 - heute
• Akademische Mitarbeiterin
  Klinik für Palliativmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland
  12 / 2020 - 09 / 2021
• Dozentin
  Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland
  03 / 2018 - 01 / 2021
• Postdoktorandin, Akademische Mitarbeiterin
  GESIS-Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim, Deutschland
  04 / 2017 - 02 / 2018
• Postdoktorandin, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
  Klinik und Poliklinik für Palliativmedizin, Universitätsklinikum München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Deutschland
  04 / 2016 - 04 / 2017
• Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin
  Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK
  10 / 2012 - 03 / 2016
• Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
  Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK
  11 / 2010 - 10 / 2012
• Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
  Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg und ipac Institut für Palliative Care Oldenburg, Deutschland
  04 / 2009 - 02 / 2011

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

• Professional Certificate / Teaching in Higher Education
  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
  01 / 2023 - 01 / 2024
• PhD / Palliative Care
  King's College London, London, UK
  10 / 2012 - 06 / 2017
• Professional Certificate / Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
  University College London, London, UK
  01 / 2014 - 01 / 2015
• Professional Certificate / Rasch Measurement Theory
  The University of Western Australia, Australia
  01 / 2013 - 01 / 2014
• Master of Science / Palliative Care
  King's College London, London, UK
  01 / 2010 - 01 / 2012
• Diplom / Psychologie (Schwerpunkte: Klinische Psychologie, Klinische Neuropsychologie, Pädagogische Psychologie)
  Universität Bremen, Institut für Psychologie
  10 / 2005 - 03 / 2009
• Vordiplom / Diplom-Psychologie
  Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institut für Psychologie
  10 / 2003 - 07 / 2005

Weiterbildung

Certificate in Good Clinical Practice
King's College London, London, UK
03 / 2024

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

• Leitlinienprogramm der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften e.V. (AWMF) , der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft e.V. (DKG) und der Deutschen Krebshilfe
• Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull
• POS und IPOS Netzwerk des Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London
• Diverse R Nutzergruppen
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin
• European Association of Palliative Care

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9996-1818

Projekte

• Care for Rare Navigator: Digitales KI-gestütztes Beratungsangebot für Familien mit seltenen Krankheiten / Teammitglied / laufend
• Bedürfnisgeleitete Pflege bei Personen mit Demenz in der Spitex: Kopartizipative Kompetenzentwicklung in der Erfassung, Veranschaulichung, Entscheidung und Überprüfung von Symptomen und Bedürfnissen in Echtzeit / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Quo Vadis Palliative Care Schweiz: eine Kontextanalyse / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
• Integration und Implementation der Palliativphase, des Australisch-adaptierten Karnofsky Performance Status und der Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale in die Palliaviva / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Electronic PerSon-cENtred care and Specialized Palliative Care for people with dementla: lmproving the quality of life with Outcome guided Recognition and assessment of relevant Symptoms, neeDs and care issues / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Begleitung der Implementation patient:innenzentrierter Messinstrumente im Kompetenzentrum Palliative Care im Universitätsspital Zürich USZ / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
• Personenzentrierte Pflege für Menschen mit einer Demenz: Verbesserung der Lebensqualität mittels einer ergebnisgeleiteten systematischen Erfassung relevanter belastender Symptome, Bedürfnisse und Betreuungsfragen / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
• Implementation von Patient:innen-zentrierten Outcome Messinstrumenten (PROMs) im Zentrum für Palliative Care am Kantonsspital Winterthur / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Evaluation vom Pilotprojekt Hospiz im APH Salem in Ennenda / Co-Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Understanding the Interactions of Influencing Factors on Restraint Use in Swiss Intensive Care Units: A Mixed Methods Multi-Case Study / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen
• Prevention Admission into Nursing Homes / Teammitglied / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed

• Ramsenthaler, C. (2026) 'Stichprobengrössenplanung in quantitativen Studien : warum sie unverzichtbar ist', Pflege, 39(2), pp. 103–103. doi: 10.1024/1012-5302/a001068.
• Stock, N. L. et al. (2026) 'Digitale Kompetenzen von Gesundheitsfachpersonen : deutsche Übersetzung und inhaltliche Validierung von DigiHealthCom und DigiComInf', Pflege, 39(3), pp. 121–130. doi: 10.1024/1012-5302/a001073.
• Hriskova, K. et al. (2026) 'Digital patient-reported outcome measures in palliative home care : a feasibility study', Palliative Medicine, 40(5), pp. 632–643. doi: 10.1177/02692163251409294.
• Burrell, T. et al. (2025) 'Cool facial airflow hastens exertion recovery in chronic breathlessness: randomised crossover trial of different fan airflow speeds', BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 15(5), pp. 633–641. doi: 10.1136/spcare-2024-005103.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2024) 'Empowering informal caregivers and nurses to take a person-centred view : adaptation and clinical utility of the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS-Dem) for use in acute and community care settings', BMC Geriatrics, 24(1030). doi: 10.1186/s12877-024-05608-8.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2024) 'Meaningful patient and public engagement in dissemination : embedding co-production in dementia research', Frontiers in Dementia, 3(1426019). doi: 10.3389/frdem.2024.1426019.
• Johnson, M. J. et al. (2024) 'Benefits of specialist palliative care by identifying active ingredients of service composition, structure, and delivery model : a systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regression', PLOS Medicine, 21(8), p. e1004436. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004436.
• Aworinde, J. et al. (2024) 'Co‐design of the EMBED‐Care Framework as an intervention to enhance shared decision‐making for people affected by dementia and practitioners, comprising holistic assessment, linked with clinical decision support tools : a qualitative study', Health Expectations, 27(1), p. e13987. doi: 10.1111/hex.13987.
• Bolzani, A. et al. (2023) 'Measurement equivalence of the paper-based and electronic version of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) : a randomised crossover trial', Palliative Medicine, 37(5), pp. 760–770. doi: 10.1177/02692163231157871.

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Gulliksen, E. et al. (2025) 'Symptoms and unmet needs in advanced liver disease : interim analysis of an integrated palliative care outcome scale (IPOS) dataset'.
• Muraru, S. et al. (2025) 'Minimal clinically important difference of the EULAR systemic sclerosis impact of disease (ScleroID) questionnaire anchored to patient-reported state and HAQ-DI', in Annual European Congress of Rheumatology EULAR, Barcelona, Spain, 11-14 June 2025.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2025) 'A person-centred outcome measure for generalist palliative care in dementia : construct validity, factor analysis, internal consistency, reliability, and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale – Dementia (IPOS-Dem)', in 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Helsinki, Finland, 29-31 May 2025.

Weitere Publikationen

• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2026) 'Forschung gemeinsam mit Betroffenen, Angehörigen und Fachpersonen für eine nachhaltige, person-zentrierte Versorgung von Personen mit Demenz in der Spitex', NOVAcura, 57(1), pp. 51–59.
• Van Es, A. et al. (2025) 'Implementierung von patientenzentrierten Messinstrumenten in der spezialisierten häuslichen Palliative Care : Lernmomente und was hat sich in der Praxis bewährt?', in Nationaler Palliative Care Kongress, Biel, Schweiz. 26.-27. November 2025.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2025) 'Identifying the top three symptoms to manage in dementia : a consensus workshop on the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale Dementia (IPOS-Dem)', in 35th Alzheimer Europe Conference, Bologna, Italy, 6-8 October 2025.

Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts

• Hauswirth Siegenthaler, C. et al. (2025) 'In der Praxis bewährt : nachhaltige PROMs-Implementierung in der Palliativversorgung im Akutspital', in Nationaler Palliative Care Kongress, Biel, Schweiz. 26.-27. November 2025.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2025) 'Can an electronic person-centred outcome measure be implemented in a resource-constrained, task-focused setting? Co-productive development of an implementation strategy in the community dementia care setting', in Palliative Medicine. Sage, p. 460. doi: 10.1177/02692163251335482.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2025) 'A person-centred outcome measure for generalist palliative care in dementia : construct validity, factor analysis, internal consistency, reliability, and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale – Dementia (IPOS-Dem)', in Palliative Medicine. Sage, p. 374. doi: 10.1177/02692163251335482.
• Ramsenthaler, C. et al. (2025) 'Validity and reliability of a child and family-centred outcome measure for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions : validation study of the Children's Palliative Care Outcome Scale', in Palliative Medicine. Sage, p. 39. doi: 10.1177/02692163251335482.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2022) 'Person-centred outcome guided palliative care for people with dementia : SENIORS-D research protocol', in National Research Day Palliative Care, Bern, Switzerland, 25 August 2022.

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