Objective: To gain insight into how communication vulnerable people and health-care professionals experience the communication in dialogue conversations, and how they adjust their conversation using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) or other communication strategies. Methods: Communication …

Complex interventions are criticized for being a “black box”, which makes it difficult to determine why they succeed or fail. Recently, nine proactive primary-care programs aiming to prevent functional decline in older adults showed inconclusive effects. The aim of this study was to systematically unravel, …

Home care patients often use many medications and are prone to drug-related problems (DRPs). For the management of problems related to drug use, home care could add to the multidisciplinary expertise of general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists. The home care observation of medication-related problems …

Background: Acquiring the theoretical and practical knowhow of conducting patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is not part of the traditional curriculum of researchers. Zuyd University of Applied Sciences and Huis voor de Zorg, a regional umbrella patient organization, therefore started …

This dissertation describes a research project about the communication between communication vulnerable people and health care professionals in long-term care settings. Communication vulnerable people experience functional communication difficulties in particular situations, due to medical conditions. …

Background: Self-management of exacerbations in COPD patients is important to reduce exacerbation impact. There is a need for more comprehensive and individualized interventions to improve exacerbation-related selfmanagement behavior. The use of mobile health (mHealth) could help to achieve a wide …

Het fibromyalgie syndroom is met een prevalentie van 1-8% een aandoening die wereldwijd veel mensen treft. Hierdoor zijn er ook in Nederland vele fibromyalgie patiënten in zowel de eerste als tweedelijns fysiotherapiepraktijken. Naast aerobe oefentherapie is een veelgebruikte behandeling in de eerste …

De zorg voor ouderen verandert en wordt steeds meer in de wijk georganiseerd. Mensen worden niet alleen ouder, ook de complexiteit van hun zorgbehoefte neemt toe. Dit geldt met name voor ouderen die meerdere chronische ziekten en aandoeningen hebben. Vaak zijn diverse disciplines tegelijkertijd betrokken …

In recent years there has been much emphasis on 'research waste' caused by poor question selection, insufficient attention to previous research results, and avoidable weakness in research design, conduct and analysis. Little attention has been paid to the effect of inadequate development of interventions …

Dit is één van mijn verhalen, maar zo zijn er dagelijks duizenden verhalen, want meer dan 500.000 mensen in Nederland ontvangen wijkverpleging. Geleverd door zo’n 8800 wijkverpleegkundigen en 11.000 verzorgenden. Achter iedere voordeur treffen zij een uniek verhaal aan waarin zij een belangrijke rol …