Objective: Gaining too much or too little weight in pregnancy (according to Institute of Medicine (IOM) guidelines) negatively affects both mother and child, but many women find it difficult to manage their gestational weight gain (GWG). Here we describe the use of the intervention mapping protocol to …

At the beginning of the twenty first century obesity entered Dutch maternity care as a ‘new illness’ challenging maternity care professionals in providing optimal care for women with higher BMI’s. International research revealed that obese women had more perinatal problems than normal weight women. …

Organizational change intends to be a mean towards improvement, hence it is a learning process for everyone concerned with it. When a change is being introduced in a complex organization, it affects a significant amount of people. Therefore, it is natural to expect various reactions, depending on the …

Inleiding: Anorexie, het verlies van eetlust, is een veelvoorkomend symptoom bij kanker en is geassocieerd met een verminderde voedselinname, cachexie, een verhoogde morbiditeit en mortaliteit en een verminderde kwaliteit van leven. Meetinstrumenten die worden aanbevolen om anorexie vast te stellen zijn …

This dissertation explores whether the German news media framework that is constructed around the issue of trafficking in human beings (THB) is biased or framed in terms of gender. The past decade has seen major developments in efforts towards the eradication of THB on an international and national …

Interactive Virtual Math (IVM) is a visualization tool to support secondary school students’ learning of dynamic functions situations graphs. The logbook-function allows teachers to get continuous and real-time assessment on classroom progress and of individual students’ learning process. In a teaching …

Eighteen years after the introduction of the graphing calculator in national examinations in the Netherlands, much has been learned about the use of technology in education. One of the key lessons was that integrating ICT as a tool for learning math is a complex task, and this complexity is often underestimated. …

This systematic review summarizes the psychometric properties of goal-setting instruments that are applied within geriatric rehabilitation. PubMed Medline and Embase were systematically searched for eligible articles. Studies were included if they were conducted in a somatic or neurological rehabilitation …

Stelt een eerstelijnsdiëtist een diëtistische diagnose? Gebruikt ze nutritional assessment? Stelt ze SMARt-doelen op? Het lectoraat Gewichtsmanagement van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam onderzocht deze en andere vragen in het DIEET-project.

Nutritional assessment is een prominent onderdeel van de opleiding Voeding & Diëtetiek. Alle vier de onderwijsinstellingen hebben een nutritional assessment lab om metingen uit te voeren. Deze labs worden gebruikt door meerdere opleidingen en lectoraten. Welke metingen zijn beschikbaar, hoe worden ze …