Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC) is a bottom-up exploratory research project with the goal of developing a contextually well-informed artistic participatory music practice for professional musicians seeking to work in hospitals. The joint research brings together qualitative researchers, musicians …

Interventions for older people are often not evaluated and, if evaluated, are not proven successful. Based on a systematic literature review and two qualitative studies about the social needs of older people, an intervention has been developed, implemented, and evaluated. Important social needs that …

Aim To explore situations in daily home nursing regarding meaning in life of older adults. Design Qualitative research design. Methods In total, 197 participant observations were conducted during home nursing visits between September 2015–May 2018. Descriptions were thematically analysed. The …

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the experience with commercially available activity trackers embedded in the physiotherapy treatment of patients with a chronic disease. Methods: In a qualitative study, 29 participants with a chronic disease participated. They wore an activity tracker for …

Older people with confused behavior, have behavioral problems due to dementia, mental problems or social problems. For the Healthcare Assistant (HA) in district nursing, it is a daily challenge to care for older people with confused behavior. Aim of this research is to achieve an insight in the strategies …

Nowadays, in Europe, there is a declining consumption of apples. Many reasons could explain this trend such as the decreasing percentage of the budget given to fresh fruits per household. The whole sector is involved to find a solution to reverse this negative trend. An answer to this problem could be …

This article explores which tensions teachers experience during one year of participation in a professional learning community (PLC). Tensions are more or less temporal negative feelings of stress, loss of self-efficacy or anxiety caused by conflicting personal features and workplace affordances. A qualitative …

In this exploratory case study based on qualitative research, we explore the perspectives and experiences of autistic self-advocates in the Netherlands regarding autism, (self-)advocacy, and consumer-run organizations. The focus of our study is a consumer-run organization by and for adult Persons on …

SAMENVATTING Dit is een praktijkgericht kwalitatief ontwikkelingsonderzoek waarbij onderzocht is hoe beeldend vaktherapeuten aan de hand van het Duale Procesmodel (DPM) volgens Stroebe en Schut (1999) kunnen werken aan verlies met CVA revalidanten binnen de GRZ (geriatrische revalidatiezorg). Rouwen …

This article presents results of a qualitative analysis based on biographic narratives of three young, well-educated women from Syria. They arrived in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017 in the context of family reunion. The central question is how young Syrian women navigate between two major projects …