Aim Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) provide important lifestyle behaviour support for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). They can use behaviour change techniques (BCTs) to do this. We aimed to evaluate which BCTs are used for supporting healthy lifestyle behaviour of people with moderate …

Purpose Complementary interventions for persons with severe mental illness (SMI) focus on both personal recovery and illness self-management. This paper aimed to identify the patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) associated with the most relevant and meaningful change in persons with SMI who attended …

Background We aimed to identify healthcare needs, expectations, utilization, and the experienced treatment effects in a population of Dutch patients with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Methods We distributed an online questionnaire among 194 adult persons with HSP in the Netherlands, of which 166 …

This study examined the association of sport participation with health outcomes and whether this relation differs between body mass index (BMI)-level subpopulations. Research outcomes for sport participation were compared with other types of leisure-time physical activity (PA). We used the Cox proportional …

Om te zien hoe sociale samenhang vandaag vorm krijgt, hebben we twee case studies van activiteiten die bewoners van Meerzicht gezamenlijk ondernemen beschreven. Het gaat dan specifiek om regelmatig terugkerende activiteiten met een gemeenschappelijk doel, die mensen samenbrengen. Dat is van belang omdat …

Chapter 36 in the Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education. Worldwide, there has been a growth in service user involvement in education and research in recent years. This handbook is the first book which identifies what is happening in different regions …

BackgroundIt has been demonstrated that people with dementia’s wellbeing can improve by using touchscreen technology. The FindMyApps program is a training and web-based selection-tool to help people with dementia and their caregivers find suitable apps that can improve their self-management and engagement …

De economische gevolgen van de COVID-19 pandemie komen vooral bij economische kwetsbare werkenden terecht. Dit zijn flexwerkers, zelfstandigen en kleine ondernemers in de zwaarst getroffen sectoren zoals horeca en cultuur. In deze sectoren lopen de inkomsten het hardst terug en liggen ontslagen en faillissementen …