Het is op dit moment onduidelijk welke patiënten voordeel hebben bij intensieve stoppen-met-roken begeleiding na een ziekenhuisopname in verband met een acuut coronair syndroom. Het identificeren van patiëntenkenmerken van diegenen die waarschijnlijk succesvol zullen stoppen met roken, voorziet in bruikbare …

Achtergrond: PCOS komt wereldwijd bij ongeveer 15% van de vrouwen in de vruchtbare periode (18-45 jaar) voor. De symptomen geassocieerd met PCOS zoals overgewicht, acne, overbeharing en onvruchtbaarheid zijn een bron van psychologische morbiditeit. Er zijn aanwijzingen dat voeding een mogelijke rol speelt …

Enhancing communication performance skills may help children with Down Syndrome (DS) to expand their opportunities for participation in daily life. It is a clinical challenge for speech-language pathologists (SLP) to disentangle various mechanisms that contribute to the language and communication problems …

Patiënten met psychiatrische aandoeningen lopen een sterk verhoogde kans op het ontwikkelen van het metabool syndroom, onder andere vanwege een ongezonde leefstijl en bijwerkingen van psychofarmaca zoals antipsychotica. De belangrijkste behandeling van het metabool syndroom is leefstijlverandering. Systematische …

Patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) comprise of a heterogeneous population with substantial differences in admission diagnosis, length of stay and co-morbidity. Therefore, very often the prognosis for each patient differs. In the Netherlands, over 20% of the more than 80,000 patients treated …

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines stress the importance of smoking cessation and recommend intensive follow-up. To guide the development of such cessation support strategies, we analysed the characteristics that are associated with successful smoking cessation after an acute …

Objective. There are no Dutch language disease-specific questionnaires for patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome available that could help Dutch physiotherapists to assess and monitor these symptoms and functional limitations. The aim of this study was to translate the original disease-specific …

Dementia is a syndrome that results in deterioration in cognitive function and effects woman more than man. The impairment in cognitive function is not only affecting the client’s system but also their social environment for fulfilling their caring needs. In the Netherlands 80.000 people with dementia …

Generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) is highly prevalent among patients diagnosed with chronic pain. When GJH is accompanied by pain in ≥4 joints over a period ≥3 months in the absence of other conditions that cause chronic pain, the hypermobility syndrome (HMS) may be diagnosed. In addition, GJH is …

Chronic widespread pain is highly present in patients with the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome hypermobility type (EDS-HT), but up to now, evidence for generalized hyperalgesia is lacking. The aim of this study is to investigate whether pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) at both symptomatic and asymptomatic body …