OBJECTIVES:  To counteract sarcopenia in non-Western migrant older adults, lifestyle interventions with increased physical activity and adequate dietary protein intake are promising. However, regular community-based lifestyle interventions often lack a culture-sensitive approach. The aim of this study …

The goal of this study was to expand knowledge on the longitudinal relationships between motor skill competence, physical activity, perceived motor competence, health-related fitness, and weight status and its age dependency in children between 6 and 11 years old. Participants were Dutch primary school …

Manifest dat voortkomt uit de resultaten van het tweejarige praktijkgerichte onderzoek 'Jongerenwerkers aan zet tegen armoede en schulden', uitgevoerd door de lectoraten Youth Spot en Armoede Interventies van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam in samenwerking met 15 jongerenwerkorganisaties. Het onderzoek is …

Factsheet waarin de resultaten zijn gevisualiseerd van het tweejarige praktijkgerichte onderzoek 'samen zien, samen doen, jongerenwerkers aan zet tegen armoede en schulden' , uitgevoerd door de lectoraten Youth Spot en Armoede Interventies van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam in samenwerking met 15 jongerenwerkorganisaties. …

Projectresultaten

This report shows the findings after two years of applied research in the BASSTA Plus project. It focuses on conducting neighbourhood analyses, testing behavioural interventions and monitoring and evaluating them. All with the objective to let residents separate organic waste more and/or better.

This dissertation explores variety in caregivers’ views on sharing care. To provide a better understanding of the wide range of informal care situations, brief stories of caregivers are sketched between the individual chapters of this dissertation. These caregivers participated in the qualitative sub-study …

Given the substantial increase in children attending center-based childcare over the past decades, the consequences of center-based childcare for children’s development have gained more attention in developmental research. However, the relation between center-based childcare and children’s neurocognitive …