Obesity and lack of physical activity are risk factors for health problems. Dropout from physical activity interventions in overweight adults is considerable. Suffering and a poor quality of life have been demonstrated to be a cue to initiate exercise interventions. Our aim was to evaluate these variables …

This paper is a report of a review conducted to provide an overview of the evidence in the literature on task-oriented training of stroke survivors and its relevance in daily nursing practice. Background: Stroke is the second leading cause of death and one of the leading causes of adult disability in …

BACKGROUND: fear of falling (FOF) is a major health problem among the elderly living in communities, present in older people who have fallen but also in older people who have never experienced a fall. The aims of this study were 4-fold: first, to study methods to measure FOF; second, to study the prevalence …

In april '07 vond in de VS het congres 'Computers in Libraries' plaats. Gerard Bierens en Liesbeth Mantel signaleren de opvallendste trends. 'De bibliotheekcatalogus gaat onherroepelijk onder het mes.'

The objective of this study is to illuminate the effects of intensive aid on the self-reliance and independence of single mothers, and to show what is and what can be done to improve the empowerment of this group. Firstly the paper focuses on the effects of intensive social aid on the self-reliance and …

Het doel van dit onderzoek was de effecten van huifbedtherapie bij meervoudig gehandicapten beter te onderbouwen. Huifbedtherapie is het behandelen van patiënten, met uiteenlopende aandoeningen, door middel van het huifbed. Het huifbed is een stalen frame waartussen een zeil is uitgespannen. Onder het …

The decrease of the number of personnel employed in the western defence sector since 1990 can truly be called spectacular. But even before that year there was an unmistakably downward trend. Cooperation, therefore, is the buzz word for the military. This cooperation in the defence sector happens jointly …