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Ines Trindade

Ines Trindade Position: Associate Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences

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Ines Trindade
Research subject Research environments

About Ines Trindade

 

Resumé

Inês is a clinical psychologist, lecturer, and researcher with expertise in behavioural medicine. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology (2018), a MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology (2013), and a BSc in Psychological Sciences (2011) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Inês was a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Coimbra (2019-2021) and, later, at the Institute of Medicine of the University of Gothenburg (2021-2023). She has also worked as Invited Assistant Professor at the Portuguese Institute for Psychology and Other Sciences (Inspsic) since 2019, and in 2025 became Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra.

Her research and teaching focuses on contextual behavioural science (or third wave Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, compassion-based interventions) and health psychology topics, in particular, psycho-gastroenterology and psycho-oncology. She is the course responsible for Health Psychology I at Örebro University, where she also supervises MSc theses and leads the EMBRACE Lab (Exploring Mind-Body Relationships And Contextual-bEhavioural interventions in illness) as Principal Investigator.

Inês' research interests relate to the determinants of psychological and physical health/illness, and to the development and evaluation (efficacy and cost-effectiveness) of face-to-face and digital contextual behavioural interventions. Her research so far has mostly involved persons with Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, COVID-19, and chronic pain. She is currently the Principal Investigator of several multidisciplinary research projects (mostly Randomized Controlled Trials), being conducted in Sweden and Portugal. 

She has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers (e.g., British Journal of Health Psychology, Gastroenterology,  American Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Pain, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Quality of Life Research, Appetite), resulting in over 3000 citations (g.scholar: h-index 32; i10-index 65). In addition, she has attracted over 1.2 million euros (13 million SEK) in competitive research funding as main applicant, and over 600.000 euros (6.5 million SEK) as co-applicant.

Inês serves as Associate Editor for the British Journal of Health Psychology and the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.


 Funding details

Principal Investigator (main applicant):

  • Development, feasibility, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of an online ACT intervention for Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction, FORTE, Public & competitive, 4 997 000 SEK, https://iactfordgbi.com/ 
  • Mind programme for cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial testing the programm's cost-effectiveness and efficacy in changing psychological and biological outcomes in women with breast cancer, FCT, 245.681€, 
  • Mental health after infection: Effects of COVID-19 on survivors’ psychosocial functioning laCaixa Foundation, 10.000€
  • (Co-PI) LIFEwithIBD: Living with Intention, Fullness and Engagement with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The impact of a group intervention and an ICT-based transcultural intervention on physical and mental health, FCT, 238.119€
  • among others (eg., fellowships)

Co-applicant:

  • Skräddarsydd multidisciplinär internetbaserad behandling för att främja arbetsåtergång hos patienter med irritabel tarm (IBS) och multipla symtom, PI: Magnus Simrén UGOT, Kamprad, 3 000 000 SEK
  • The Growing Together in Pregnancy and Postpartum online program: A multicenter randomized controlled trial to assess its acceptability, feasibility and efficacy in promoting perinatal mental health and a mindful and compassionate parenting, PI: Helena Moreira UCoimbra, FCT, 250.000€
  • Cultivating Compassionate Schools: The effects of an evidence-based compassion mind training program for teachers on psychological, biophysiological and epigenetic correlates of wellbeing, prosociality and stress, PI: Marcela Matos UCoimbra, BIAL, 50.000
  • VR-ACT after Stroke: a feasibility RCT of a Virtual Reality delivery of ACT for pain management and mental health in patients with Chronic Post-Stroke Pain, PI: Sérgio Carvalho UCoimbra, FCT, 49.930€

Total amount of acquired competitive funding, in SEK:

  • as main applicant: ~ 12 500 000 SEK
  • as co-applicant: ~ 7 000 000SEK
  • both: ~ 20 000 000 SEK.

 Questionnaires

To check the full list and register the use of a questionnaire developed/validated by Inês and her team, please access https://inestrindaderesearch.wordpress.com/ 


 Selected science dissemination / media

Podcast Compassion in T-shirt: “Living with IBD, Healing with Compassion”

Forskning.se (DGBI, Gastroenterology paper)

Article for NA, “Därför kan samtalet mellan hjärnan och tarmen få din mage att krångla”

Interview for Svenska Dagbladet, "Oväntad behandling gav ”rejäl” effekt mot IBS”

Interviews for Visão (Portugal), "Quando os intestinos ‘mandam’ no nosso dia-a-dia"; "Como a doença inflamatória intestinal transforma a juventude"

Radio interview (Antena 1, Portugal)

News on the Mind project in the Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American media, covered by a total of 54 news outlets

Article for the Science of Mindfulness, Your Brain Is Also Part of Your Body: Contextual and Contemplative Approaches in Physical Illness

News on studies in inflammatory bowel disease in the Portuguese media, covered by a total of 14 news outlets

Article for the Association for Behavior Science International (ABAI), Entangled with illness: How cognitive fusion is linked to poor health in chronic conditions

Publications

Articles in journals |  Articles, reviews/surveys |  Chapters in books |  Conference papers |  Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |  Licentiate theses, comprehensive summaries |  Other | 

Articles in journals

Articles, reviews/surveys

Chapters in books

Conference papers

  • Nogueira, M. R. , Menezes, P. , Carvalho, S. , Patrão, B. , Trindade, I. A. , Guiomar, R. , Duarte, J. , Lapa, T. & et al. (2020). Design and Usability of an E-Health Mobile Application. In: Aaron Marcus, Elizabeth Rosenzweig,  Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems 9th International Conference, DUXU 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part III. Paper presented at 22nd HCI International Conference (HCII 2020), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020. (pp. 314-328). Springer. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Licentiate theses, comprehensive summaries

Other