Professor Freia De Bock
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Professor Freia De Bock

Head of department and university professor for child health services research in childhood and adolescence with a focus on child protection in medicine

Freia De Bock has been a full university professor for child health services research with a focus on child protection in medicine at HHU (more information) and the UKD since 2022. She is a specialist in paediatrics with a specialization in social and developmental paediatrics and a habilitation in Child Public Health at the University of Heidelberg. In addition to her medical qualifications, Ms. De Bock has a broad range of qualifications and in-depth methodological skills in the field of health services research and public health thanks to the Clinical Effectiveness Program at Harvard University and a Master of Public Health degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

One afternoon a week, she provides medical care for children and families as part of a developmental and socio-pediatric consultation in the socio-pediatric center of the Clinic for General Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Neonatology at the UKD.

From 2010-2016, she was a Margarete von Wrangell Program Excellence Fellow in Baden-Württemberg and worked in social pediatrics at the SPC Frankfurt-Mitte until 2016. From 2008-2018, she led scientific research groups at the Mannheim Institute for Public Health (Heidelberg University) and the IMBEI (Mainz University) in addition to her clinical work. From 2018-2022, she headed the Department of Effectiveness and Efficiency of Health Education at the Federal Center for Health Education and thus also has applied health policy experience and networks.

+49 211 – 81 08194

Visitor address

Building 12.50, ground floor, room 07

Himmelgeisterstraße 228, 40225 Düsseldorf

Research interests

  • Child health services research 
  • Cross-system and intersectoral approaches to prevention and preventive health services research  
  • Evidence-based public health and health services research
  • Development of evidence-based concepts for child public health and preventive child protection
  • Design, evaluation and implementation of complex interventions in care settings and living environments
  • Participatory health services research
  • Participation and ICF-CY in medical care
  • Scientific monitoring of integrated municipal concepts for health promotion and care 

Projects

  • See all projects of the Department of Child Health Services Research in Childhood and Adolescence

Selected publications

Pubmed

Michael Eichinger *, Tatiana Görig, Sabine Georg, Dorle Hoffmann, Diana Sonntag, Heike Philippi, Jochem König, Michael S Urschitz, Freia De Bock. Evaluation of a complex intervention to strengthen participation-centred care for children with special healthcare needs: Protocol of the stepped wedge cluster randomised PART-CHILD trial, IJERPH Health Care Sciences & Services, 2023

Sprengholz P, Korn L, Eitze S, Felgendreff L, Siegers R, Goldhahn L, De Bock F, Hübl L, Böhm R, Betsch C.  Attitude toward a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy and its determinants: Evidence from serial cross-sectional surveys conducted throughout the pandemic in Germany. Vaccine, 2022 Dec 5;40(51):7370-7377

De Bock F, Rehfuess EA (2021). Mehr Evidenzbasierung in Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung: Kriterien für evidenzbasierte Maßnahmen und notwendige organisationale Rahmenbedingungen und Kapazitäten. Bundesgesundheitsblatt 64, pages 524–533 (2021)

De Bock F, Dietrich M, Rehfuess E. (2020). Evidenzbasierung in Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. Memorandum der BZgA im Rahmen des Zukunftsforums Public Health

Georg S, Bosle C, Fischer JE, De Bock F. (2020) Psychometric properties and contextual appropriateness of the German version of the Early Development Instrument. BMC Pediatrics, accepted June 1st 2020

De Bock F, Bosle C, Graef C, Oepen J, Philippi H, Urschitz MS. (2019) Measuring social participation in children with chronic health conditions: validation and reference values of the child and adolescent scale of participation (CASP) in the German context. BMC Pediatr. 2019 Apr 24;19(1):125.

Sonntag D, Shehzad A, De Bock F (2016). Lifetime Indirect Cost of Childhood Overweight and Obesity: A decision analytical model. Obesity, 24(1), 200-6.

Urschitz MS, Gebhard B, Philippi H, De Bock F (2016). Partizipation und Bildung als Endpunkte in der pädiatrischen Versorgungsforschung. Kinder-und Jugendmedizin, 16(3), 206-217

De Bock F, Genser B, Raat H, Fischer JE, Renz-Polster H (2013). Participatory intervention increases physical activity and reduces sedentary behaviour in preschool children: cluster-randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 45(1), 64-74.

De Bock F, Breitenstein L, Fischer JE (2012). Positive impact of a pre-school-based nutritional intervention on children's fruit and vegetable intake: results of a cluster-randomized trial. Public Health Nutrition, 15(3), 466-75.

De Bock F, Fischer JE, Hoffmann K, Renz-Polster H (2010). A participatory parent-focused intervention promoting physical activity in preschools: design of a cluster-randomized trial. BMC Public Health, 10(1), 49.

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