Academic learning has always been a serious issue for students with emotional and behavioural disorders (EBD) and their teachers. However, teaching academic skills could be an important protective and curative factor for the problem behaviour of these students. The current review was conducted to study …

BACKGROUND: Chest physiotherapy is widely used in people with cystic fibrosis in order to clear mucus from the airways. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness and acceptability of chest physiotherapy compared to no treatment or spontaneous cough alone to improve mucus clearance in cystic fibrosis. …

INTRODUCTION: To provide a state of the art on diagnostics, clinical characteristics, and treatment of paediatric generalised joint hypermobility (GJH) and joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS). METHOD: A narrative review was performed regarding diagnostics and clinical characteristics. Effectiveness of …

Background Rapid development in health care has resulted in an increasing number of screening and treatment options. Consequently, there is an urgency to provide people with relevant information about benefits and risks of healthcare options in an unbiased way. Decision aids help people to make decisions …

BACKGROUNDS: Alcohol use among adolescents has become a major public health problem in the past decade and has large short- and long-term consequences on their health. The aim of this systematic review was to provide an overview of longitudinal cohort studies that have analyzed the association between …

Wird an Schizophrenie gedacht, fallen vor allem die Schlagwörter Halluzination, Persönlichkeitsspaltung, Verrücktheit und Irresein. Aber ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt ist die sprachliche Abweichung, deren Zusammenhang mit der Schizophrenie bereits 1926 als ‚Sprachverwirrung‘ in der Literatur diskutiert …

QUESTION: Do negative expectations in patients after the onset of acute low back pain increase the odds of absence from usual work due to progression to chronic low back pain? DESIGN: Systematic review with meta-analysis of prospective inception cohort studies. PARTICIPANTS: Adults with acute or subacute …

Zijn auditieve verwerkingsproblemen een te onderscheiden stoornis?Focus group discussions with speech-language pathologists (SLP) showed that there exists uncertainty among SLP's about the definition, the characteristics of auditory processing disorders (APD) in children. Also in literature there is …

In this systematic review we aim to measure the effects of occupational therapy interventions (provided directly by an occupational therapist or under the supervision of an occupational therapist) targeted at improving, restoring and maintaining independence in ADL (to include both self-care and leisure …