Background Home-visiting programs often aim to improve parenting skills, parent-child relationships, and children’s developmental outcomes for at-risk families. Although research has identified what elements of these interventions are effective when provided by professionals, little is known about effective …

Science museums can be a rich learning context, where visitors engage with scientific practices with few formal requirements. However, science museums can be experienced as not welcoming to migrant families due to social, economic, and cultural barriers. In this study, we asked what language-related …

Presentatie over mijn onderzoek en promotietraject voor visiting professor Ivan Bautmans, op verzoek van lector Hans Hobbelen.

For the DELUGE project, artist Linde Ex is researching the coastal saltmarshes near Firth of Forth, Edinburgh; Barrow in Furness, Cumbria and the Wadden Sea, the Netherlands. Because of their aesthetics – generally flat and open, with a limited colour palette and few recognisable landscape objects – …

Recent studies have shown that the climate is seeing a rapid change, causing amongst other sea level rise. Although the protection standards for conventional flood protection are generally high in The Netherlands, flood protection experts from government, research and industry are exploring alternative …

Objectives The objective of this study is to better understand how the COVID-19 outbreak impacted the different domains of the palliative care approach to end-of-life care from the perspective of healthcare professionals (HCPs) from different professions, working in different settings during the first …

Early mobilisation after abdominal surgery is necessary to avoid complications and increase recovery. However, due to a variety of factors, failure of early mobilisation is seen in clinical practice. The aim of this study is to investigate the perspectives of nurses and patients of the Haaglanden Medical …

Presentatie naar aanleiding van mijn verblijf als visiting scholar bij de NTNU in Trondheim. Het thema is de positie van lokale energie in Noorwegen en mijn bezoeken aan diverse Zero Emission Neighbourhoods.

Background Preconception care (PCC) is care prior to conception to optimize parental health, and health of the future child, through biomedical and behavioral changes. Providing PCC to all women with a wish to conceive will improve perinatal health. PCC is especially important for women with a chronic …

Abstract Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has challenged healthcare globally. An acute increase in the number of hospitalized patients has neces‑ sitated a rigorous reorganization of hospital care, thereby creating …