What is already known about depression in dementia? Comorbid depression in people with dementia is associated with decreased quality of life (Shin et al., 2005), greater health care utilization (Kunik et al., 2003), higher mortality rates (Suh et al., 2005) and decreased caregiver’s wellbeing (Kerkstra …

Reactie op ‘Chronischevermoeidheidssyndroom: een psychoneuro-immunologisch perspectief’ (1) Als betrokken onderzoeker en behandelaar respectievelijk patiënt en literatuuronderzoeker hebben wij het artikel van Van Houdenhove en Heijnen (2009) met interesse en aandacht gelezen. De strekking van hun betoog …

OBJECTIVE: Former studies in chronic diseases showed the importance of patients' beliefs and perceptions. The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire was developed to assess these illness perceptions. Our goal was to investigate psychometric properties of the IPQ-R for Fibromyalgia Dutch language version …

Physical activity (PA) and physical fitness (PF) are inversely associated with the clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (RF) associated with the metabolic syndrome (MS). However, the role of individual components of PA, that is, intensity, duration and volume, and the inter-relationship …