This study investigated whether an instructional intervention can increase students’ self-regulated use of retrieval practice in a higher education classroom environment. A lab-experiment by Ariel and Karpicke (2017) revealed that strategy instructions improved students’ self-regulated use of retrieval …

Background We aimed to identify healthcare needs, expectations, utilization, and the experienced treatment effects in a population of Dutch patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Methods We distributed an online questionnaire among 194 adult persons with HSP in the Netherlands, of which 166 …

Het doel van dit afstudeeronderzoek is om inzicht te krijgen in de voorlopige resultaten en de praktische haalbaarheid van het effect van motivational coaching op de mate van fysieke activiteit op lange termijn bij ‘kankersurvisors’ na afronding van een tien weken durend revalidatieprogramma

Chronic pain rehabilitation programs are aimed at helping patients to increase their functioning despite being in pain, thereby improving their quality of life. However, conversations between patients and practitioners about how the patient could deal with his/her pain and pain-related disabilities in …

Although systematic reviews are considered as central components in evidence-based practice, they currently face an important challenge to keep up with the exponential publication rate of clinical trials. After initial publication, only a minority of the systematic reviews are updated, and it often takes …

Background and objectives: Although Interdisciplinary Multimodal Pain Treatment (IMPT) programmes share a biopsychosocial approach to increase the wellbeing of patients with chronic pain, substantial variation in content and duration have been reported. In addition, it is unclear to what extent any favourable …

De epidemie stelt het veiligheidsbestel zwaar op de proef. Behandel de politie net als de KLM, schrijft lector Marnix Eysink Smeets in de Veiligheidscolumn.

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease which is characterized by vasculopathy, tissue fibrosis and activation of the innate and adaptive immune system. Clinical features of the disease consists of skin thickening and internal organ involvement. Due to the heterogeneous nature of the disease …

De coronacrisis raakt onze gezondheid, de economie en de politiek. Maar het is vooral de psychologische crisis die we onder controle moeten krijgen, schrijft Marnix Eysink Smeets.

De corona-pandemie gaat vergezeld van een tweede pandemie: die van angst en onzekerheid. Die vervult een sleutelrol in zowel de aanpak van de volksgezondheidscrisis áls in de financieel-economische crisis. Vanaf het begin van de crisis vertaal ik de wetenschappelijke inzichten over de doorwerking van …