A significant contributor to the global threat of obesity is excessive gestational weight gain (GWG). The aim of this article is to explore Dutch primary care midwives’ behaviors in promoting healthy GWG.

Unhealthy gestational weight gain (GWG) contributes to long-term obesity in women and their offspring. The aim of this study is to quantify midwives’ behavior in promoting healthy GWG and to identify the most important determinants related to this behavior.

Obesitas is een steeds vaker voorkomende aandoening in West-Europa, Noord-Amerika en andere welvarende delen van de wereld. Uit recent onderzoek van het RIVM is gebleken dat van de gehele volwassen populatie in Nederland in 2012, zo’n 40% overgewicht heeft en 12% obesitas. Bij obesitas vindt een ophoping …

Which components are essential for developing the online version of the DBT intervention to be an effective equivalent of the existing face-to-face DBT? Presentation, held during the New Year Conference KCO-January 2014.

This export marketing plan will identify the British E-bike market for Mihatra BV, a medium sized Dutch producer of E-bikes. The objective of the plan is to find out what the best market positioning and marketing would be for Mihatra in the United Kingdom. The central research question is therefore: …

Presentatie tijdens eHealth overleg Noord Nederland, georganiseerd door Rob Giel Onderzoeks Centrum (UMCG), gehouden in oktober 2013. Presentatie over problematiek obesitas en inzet van online Dialectische Gedrags Therapie als aanzet tot een onderzoeksvoorstel.

In Europe, about 20% of children are overweight. Focus on parental responsibility is an effective method in weight control interventions in children. In this systematic review we describe the intensity of parental involvement and behaviour change aimed at parents in long-term European childhood weight …

In this study the following question will be examineted: How does the existing treatment for the eating disorder obesity within PsyQ, affect the negative body image of this patients? Body dysmorphic means what people think and feel about there bodies and what tis means for their daily doing. A negative …

Synthetic glucocorticoids are potent anti-inflammatory drugs but show dose-dependent metabolic side effects such as the development of insulin resistance and obesity. The precise mechanisms involved in these glucocorticoid-induced side effects, and especially the participation of adipose tissue in this …

Reducing health inequalities is a policy priority in many developed countries. Little is known about effective strategies to reduce inequalities in obesity and its underlying behaviors. The goal of the study was to investigate differential effectiveness of interventions aimed at obesity prevention, the …