Teaching Quantified Self methods to health care undergraduates. Breakout session at Quantified Self Conference, 18-19 September 2015, Amsterdam. We’ll share highlights of our three years of experience in teaching n=1 and self-experimentation to allied health care and nursing undergraduates. We’d love …

AIMS: To unravel outpatient nurses' views on the role of people with chronic conditions in self-management, nurses' own support role and to establish how these views relate to nurse-led self-management interventions. BACKGROUND: Providing self-management support is a core task of nurses in outpatient …

BackgroundWorldwide healthcare systems insist a patient centred, integrated, approach, which improves clinical outcomes, quality of life, patient satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency. In the Netherlands, Integrated care (IC) centres arise, but literature does not attend Facility Managements (FM) …

BACKGROUND: Physical therapists' recommendations to patients to avoid daily physical activity can be influenced by the therapists' kinesiophobic beliefs. Little is known about the amount of influence of a physical therapist's kinesiophobic beliefs on a patient's actual lifting capacity during a lifting …

BACKGROUND: Ageing is a process that is often accompanied by functional limitation, disabilities and losses. Instead of focusing on these negative events of ageing, there are opportunities in focusing on adaptation mechanisms, like resilience, that are helpful to cope with those adversities. DESIGN: …

People living with HIV (PLWH) face various workrelated problems, such as stigma and physical difficulties. Health care professionals can help improve the employment situation of PLWH. Nurses who work in HIV care play a central role in the care of PLWH in the Netherlands. The aim of this crosssectional study …

Activity trackers like Fitbit are used for self-tracking of physical activity by an increasing number of individuals. Comparing physical activity scores with peers can contribute to the desired behavioural change. However, for meaningful social comparison a high inter-device reliability is paramount. …

Gezinshulpverleners binnen Ambiq melden weinig incidenten in Triasweb, het meldsysteem binnen Ambiq. Vraag is wat de motivatie hierachter is en wat nodig is dat gezinshulpverleners gaan melden. Daartoe wordt eerst het begrip 'motivatie ' onderzocht aan de hand van de Self-determination Theory van Ryan …

To adequately deal with the challenges faced within residential care for older people, such as the increasing complexity of care and a call for more person-centred practices, it is important that health care providers learn from their work. This study investigates both the nature of learning, among staff …

PURPOSE: The main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between quality of life, social functioning, depressive symptoms, self-efficacy, physical function, and socioeconomic status (SES) in community-dwelling older adults. METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used to examine the …