Publicaties

Huth K, Wijnen SMCE, Skjerdingstad N, Bartoš F, Finnemann A, Ebrahimi OV, et al. Social connection features predicting loneliness: a longitudinal, interpretable machine‑learning analysis [preprint]. PsyArXiv; 2026 Jan 12. Available from: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/mt76k_v1.

Li N, Rambod B, Dukers-Muijrers N, Chevalier JM, Steijvers L, Kojan L, Wijnen S, Crutzen R, Jahn B, Siebert U, Stellbrink L, van Daalen F, Kretzschmar M, Hiligsmann M. General population preferences for health-related protective behaviors during infectious disease emergencies: a systematic review of conjoint-analysis studies. Soc Sci Med. 2026 Jan;388:118721. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118721. Epub 2025 Oct 27. PMID: 41175829.

Huth, K.B.S., Haslbeck, J.M.B., Keetelaar, S. et al. Statistical evidence in psychological networks. Nat Hum Behav 10, 333–346 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02314-2

Huth KBS, van der Wal J, Zavlis O, Luigjes J, Lakerveld J, Galenkamp H, Lok A, Stronks K, Bockting CL, Marsman M, Goudriaan AE, van Holst RJ. Individual and neighborhood determinants of depressive symptoms in ethnic minorities in the urban HELIUS sample: a multi-level network perspective. Soc Sci Med. 2025;381:118195.

Steijvers LC, Wagner S, Bruinsma J, Hoebe CJ, Dukers-Muijrers NH. Social networks and levels of physical activity in Dutch adults – the SaNAE study. Int J Sport Exerc Psychol. 2025:1–21. doi:10.1080/1612197X.2025.2570184.

van Daalen, F., Brecheisen, R., Wee, L. et al. Multinomial Classification Certainty: a new uncertainty metric for multinomial outcome prediction. Prog Artif Intell (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13748-025-00404-w

van Daalen, F., Jacquemin, M., van Soest, J. et al. A critique of current approaches to privacy in machine learning. Ethics Inf Technol 27, 32 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09843-4

van Bilsen CJA, Steijvers LCJ, Wagner S, Pagen DME, Wijnen SMCE, Konings K et al. Social networks, environmental, and individual factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination and booster uptake- The prospective PRIME cohort study. Vaccine: X. 2025 Mar 1;23:100626. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100626

Van Daalen F, Henriksen MHB, Hansen TF, Jensen LH, Brasen CL, Hilberg O, Andersen MAK, Humerfelt E, Wee L, Bermejo I. A Bayesian network approach to lung cancer screening: assessing the impact of data quantity, quality, and the combination of data from Danish electronic health records. Cancers (Basel). 2024;16(23):3989. doi:10.3390/cancers16233989.

Steijvers LCJ, van Bilsen CJA, Wagner S, Stutterheim SE, Crutzen R, Ruiter RAC, Hoebe CJPA, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM. Social networks and COVID-19 vaccination intention in Dutch middle-aged and older adults in 2020: Insights into individual, interpersonal, community, and societal determinants - The SaNAE study. Vaccine X. 2024 Sep 24;20:100562. doi: 10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100562. PMID: 39399819; PMCID: PMC11466667.

van Daalen, F., Ippel, L., Dekker, A. et al. VertiBayes: learning Bayesian network parameters from vertically partitioned data with missing values. Complex Intell. Syst. 10, 5317–5329 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-024-01424-0

van Bilsen CJA, Brinkhues S, Hoebe CJPA, Stabourlos C, Moonen CPB, Demarest S, Hanssen DAT, van Loo IHM, Savelkoul PHM, Philippsen D, van der Zanden BAM, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM. Cross-border mobility in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion: impact of COVID-19 border restrictions on everyday activities and visiting social network members. Front Public Health. 2024 Apr 18;12:1281072. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1281072. PMID: 38726234; PMCID: PMC11079879.

Peters GJY, Crutzen R. Knowing what we’re talking about: facilitating decentralized, unequivocal publication of and reference to psychological construct definitions and instructions. Meta Psychol. 2024;8:MP.2022.3638.

Steijvers LC, Brinkhues S, Suanet B, Stijnen MM, Hoebe CJ, Dukers-Muijrers NH. The role of social network structure and function in moderate and severe social and emotional loneliness: The Dutch SaNAE study in older adults. Heliyon. 2023 Dec 16;10(1):e23734. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23734. PMID: 38226216; PMCID: PMC10788429.

Huth KBS, de Ron J, Goudriaan AE, et al. Bayesian analysis of cross-sectional networks: a tutorial in R and JASP. Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci. 2023;6(4). doi:10.1177/25152459231193334.

Dukers N.H.T.M. ACTUALITEIT. De kracht van sociale netwerken voor een gezonde samenleving. Tijdschrift voor gezondheidszorg en ethiek [in Dutch]. 2023 Sept. P78 - 80 URL: https://www.tijdschrifttge.nl/art/50-7606_De-kracht-van-sociale-netwerken-voor-een-gezonde-samenleving

Steijvers LCJ, Leeferink F, Brinkhues S, Hoebe CJPA, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM. Social networks and health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study among older adults in the Netherlands. Z Gesundh Wiss. 2023 Jun 8:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s10389-023-01947-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37361294; PMCID: PMC10248984.

Van Daalen F, Ippel L, Dekker A, Bermejo I. Privacy preserving n-party scalar product protocol. IEEE Trans Parallel Distrib Syst. 2023 Apr 1;34(4):1060–1066. doi:10.1109/TPDS.2023.3238768. 

Pagen DME, van Bilsen CJA, Brinkhues S, Moonen CPB, Van Herck M, Konings K, den Heijer CDJ, Mujakovic S, Ter Waarbeek HLG, Bouwmeester-Vincken N, Vaes AW, Spruit MA, Hoebe CJPA, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM. Design and recruitment of a large-scale cohort study on prevalence, risk factors and impact evaluation of post-COVID-19 condition and its wider long-term social, mental, and physical health impact: The PRIME post-COVID study. Front Public Health. 2022 Dec 15;10:1032955. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1032955. PMID: 36589958; PMCID: PMC9799054.

Steijvers LC, Brinkhues S, Tilburg TGV, Hoebe CJ, Stijnen MM, Vries N, Crutzen R, Dukers-Muijrers NH. Changes in structure and function of social networks of independently living middle-aged and older adults in diverse sociodemographic subgroups during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study. BMC Public Health. 2022 Dec 3;22(1):2253. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14500-2. PMID: 36463147; PMCID: PMC9719122.

Crutzen R, Peters GJY. A lean method for selecting determinants when developing behavior change interventions. Health Psychol Behav Med. 2023;11(1). doi:10.1080/21642850.2023.2167719.

Gianfredi V, Beran M, Koster A, Eussen SJ, Odone A, Signorelli C, Schaper NC, Köhler S, Bosma H, Dagnelie PC, Stehouwer CD, Wesselius A, Amerio A, Brinkhues S, Dukers-Muijrers N, Schram MT. Association between social network characteristics and prevalent and incident depression: The Maastricht Study. J Affect Disord. 2021 Oct 1;293:338-346. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.06.046. Epub 2021 Jun 25. PMID: 34229287.

Schram MT, Assendelft WJJ, van Tilburg TG, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM. Social networks and type 2 diabetes: a narrative review. Diabetologia. 2021 Sep;64(9):1905-1916. doi: 10.1007/s00125-021-05496-2. Epub 2021 Jun 29. PMID: 34189591; PMCID: PMC8241411.

Steijvers LCJ, Brinkhues S, Hoebe CJPA, van Tilburg TG, Claessen V, Bouwmeester-Vincken N, Hamers F, Vranken P, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM. Social networks and infectious diseases prevention behavior: A cross-sectional study in people aged 40 years and older. PLoS One. 2021 May 19;16(5):e0251862. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251862. PMID: 34010363; PMCID: PMC8133464.

Helms YB, Hamdiui N, Eilers R, Hoebe C, Dukers-Muijrers N, van den Kerkhof H, Timen A, Stein ML. Online respondent-driven detection for enhanced contact tracing of close-contact infectious diseases: benefits and barriers for public health practice. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Apr 16;21(1):358. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06052-4. PMID: 33863279; PMCID: PMC8051831.

Crutzen R, Peters GJY. The regression trap: why regression analyses are not suitable for selecting determinants to target in behavior change interventions. Health Psychol Behav Med. 2023;11:2268684.

Silverman-Retana O, Brinkhues S, Hulman A, Stehouwer CDA, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM, Simmons RK, Bosma H, Eussen S, Koster A, Dagnelie P, Savelberg HHCM, Schaper NC, van Dongen MCJM, Witte DR, Schram MT. Spousal concordance in pathophysiological markers and risk factors for type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional analysis of The Maastricht Study. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2021 Feb;9(1):e001879. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2020-001879. PMID: 33597186; PMCID: PMC7893653.

Niekamp AM, Spauwen LWL, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM, Hoebe CJPA. How aware are swingers about their swing sex partners' risk behaviours, and sexually transmitted infection status? BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Feb 12;21(1):172. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-05813-5. PMID: 33579200; PMCID: PMC7881639.

Brinkhues S, Schram MT, Hoebe CJPA, Kretzschmar MEE, Koster A, Dagnelie PC, Sep SJS, van Kuijk SMJ, Savelkoul PHM, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM. Social networks in relation to self-reported symptomatic infections in individuals aged 40-75 - the Maastricht study. BMC Infect Dis. 2018 Jul 4;18(1):300. doi: 10.1186/s12879-018-3197-3. PMID: 29973154; PMCID: PMC6030801.

Brinkhues S, Dukers-Muijrers NHTM, Hoebe CJPA, van der Kallen CJH, Koster A, Henry RMA, Stehouwer CDA, Savelkoul PHM, Schaper NC, Schram MT. Social Network Characteristics Are Associated With Type 2 Diabetes Complications: The Maastricht Study. Diabetes Care. 2018 Aug;41(8):1654-1662. doi: 10.2337/dc17-2144. Epub 2018 Jun 15. PMID: 29907582.

Schiepers OJG, et al. Lifestyle for Brain Health (LIBRA): a new model for dementia prevention. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2018;33(1):167–175.

Theunissen K, Hoebe C, Kok G, Crutzen R, Kara-Zaïtri C, de Vries N, van Bergen J, Hamilton R, van der Sande M, Dukers-Muijrers N. A Web-Based Respondent Driven Sampling Pilot Targeting Young People at Risk for Chlamydia Trachomatis in Social and Sexual Networks with Testing: A Use Evaluation. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 Aug 20;12(8):9889-906. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120809889. PMID: 26308015; PMCID: PMC4555318.

Dukers-Muijrers NH, Theunissen KA, Wolffs PT, Kok G, Hoebe CJ. Acceptance of Home-Based Chlamydia Genital and Anorectal Testing Using Short Message Service (SMS) in Previously Tested Young People and Their Social and Sexual Networks. PLoS One. 2015 Jul 31;10(7):e0133575. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133575. PMID: 26230085; PMCID: PMC4539363