Purpose Honours programs prepare talented students to become future excellent professionals . However, competences defining an excellent professional have not been elucidated yet. We investigated how professionals characterize an excellent communication professional, aiming to develop a competence profile …

OBJECTIVE: Standardization of the handover process is deemed necessary to ensure continuity and safety of care. However, local context is considered of equal importance to improve the handover process. Our objective was to determine what recommendations on standardized shift handover nurses make, if …

The aim of the study was to investigate whether an increased risk of injury occurrence can be determined through frequent anthropometric measurements in elite-standard youth soccer players. Over the course of one season, we followed 101 male elite-standard youth soccer players between 11 and 19 years …

Purpose To empirically define the concept of burden of neck pain. The lack of a clear understanding of this construct from the perspective of persons with neck pain and care providers hampers adequate measurement of this burden. An additional aim was to compare the conceptual model obtained with the …

Achtergrond - Jeffrey Young is de grondlegger van schematherapie. Schematherapie is een combinatie van cognitieve gedragstherapie en experiëntiële technieken (ervaringsgerichte technieken) met de nadruk op de therapeutische relatie als middel tot verandering en een sterke focus op het verwerken van traumatische …

De hieronder beschreven vraagstelling en doelstelling zijn tot stand gekomen vanuit de vraag van Liesbeth Doomen voor een vooronderzoek voor haar evidence-based onderzoek dat hierop zal volgen. In dit onderzoeksverslag wordt antwoord gegeven op de vraag: Hoe ziet een consensusbased behandelproduct voor …

Background A variety of options and techniques for causing implicit and explicit motor learning have been described in the literature. The aim of the current paper was to provide clearer guidance for practitioners on how to apply motor learning in practice by exploring experts’ opinions and experiences, …

Generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) is highly prevalent among patients diagnosed with chronic pain. When GJH is accompanied by pain in ≥4 joints over a period ≥3 months in the absence of other conditions that cause chronic pain, the hypermobility syndrome (HMS) may be diagnosed. In addition, GJH is …

PURPOSE: The aims of this study were to adapt the Gross Motor Function Measure-88 (GMFM-88) for children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) and Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) and to determine the test-retest and interobserver reliability of the adapted version. METHOD: Sixteen paediatric physical therapists …

Consensus on red flags and terminology of atypical speech and language development Objectives Atypical speech and language development is one of the most common developmental problems in young children. However, consensus lacks on clinical signs and on diagnostic terminology. The aim of our study is …