Background: In addition to medical intervention and counseling, patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) need to manage their disease and its consequences by themselves in daily life. Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the development of "Vascular View," a comprehensive, multi-component, …

De dorpen Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten vormen samen de gemeente Nuenen c.a. De gemeentelijke organisatie richt zich op haar eigen doelgroep, namelijk: de inwoner. Rondom afval scheiden is al een geruime tijd veel te doen. Voormalig staatssecretaris Mansveld van infrastructuur & Milieu roept het Rijk …

This study aims to describe how the Illness Management and Recovery program enhanced recovery of persons with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders from their own perspective. Participants valued learning how to divide huge goals into attainable steps, how to recognize and prevent a relapse by …

Aim: Provide insight into the concept of stress in the context of challenging behaviour of nursing home residents with dementia and its causes and consequences. Background: Challenging behaviour is frequent in residents with dementia, but consequences for nursing staff are unclear. Introduction: Challenging …

Aims and objectives. This study reports about the experiences of 11 patients in the Netherlands who use intermittent self-catheterisation to manage their symptoms. The aim of the study was to get insight in underlying barriers and facilitators for patients dealing with intermittent catheterisation in …

Background: E-mental health is a promising medium to keep mental health affordable and accessible. For consumers with severe mental illness the evidence of the effectiveness of e-health is limited. A number of difficulties and barriers have to be addressed concerning e-health for consumers with severe …

Background: The care for children with a chronic kidney disease (CKD) is complex. Parents of these children may experience high levels of stress in managing their child's disease, potentially leading to negative effects on their child's health outcomes. Although the experienced problems are well known, …

Background: In the Netherlands, most patients with severe mental illness (SMI) receive flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) provided by multidisciplinary community mental health teams. SMI patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are sometimes offered evidence-based trauma-focused …

Achtergrond Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is een veelgebruikte beeldvormende techniek voor het diagnosticeren van ziekten. Voor patiënten met claustrofobie is een MRI-onderzoek een angstige ervaring, omdat zij een bepaalde tijd stil moeten liggen in de smalle gantry. Het doel van dit kwalitatieve …