Phantom limb pain following amputation is highly prevalent as it affects up to 80% of amputees. Many amputees suffer from phantom limb pain for many years and experience major limitations in daily routines and quality of life. Conventional pharmacological interventions often have negative side-effects …

Aanleiding en theoretisch kader Autisme Team Noord (ATN) Autreach is een specialistisch ambulante behandelafdeling van Lentis. Deze afdeling biedt zorg aan patiënten met een diagnose in het autismespectrumstoornis (ASS). In de literatuur wordt slaapproblematiek vaak genoemd bij deze diagnose (Willems, …

Multiple organizations around the world have issued evidence-based exercise guidance for patients with cancer and cancer survivors. Recently, the American College of Sports Medicine has updated its exercise guidance for cancer prevention as well as for the prevention and treatment of a variety of cancer …

Vor dem Hintergrund der wachsenden Bedeutung der EBP für die Ergotherapie in Deutschland stellt sich die Frage, welche Kompetenzen Ergotherapeuten_innen aufweisen und welche Ressourcen, Rahmenbedingungen und Barrieren im Arbeitskontext existieren.

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war die Übersetzung der aktuellen Version des COSA 2.2 in die deutsche Sprache. Ebenso sollte die Relevanz der Übersetzung und die damit einhergehende Erweiterung der evidenzbasierten ergotherapeutischen Praxis durch theoretische Grundlagen untermauert werden.

The aim of the research reported in this thesis was to gain knowledge about the implementation of evidence‐based practice (EBP) in nursing to find a way to integrate shared decision making (SDM) with EBP in a chronic care environment in nursing, and to develop a strategy for an integrated approach of …

AIM: To obtain an overview of existing evidence on quality criteria, instruments, and requirements for nursing documentation. DESIGN: Systematic review of systematic reviews. DATA SOURCES: We systematically searched the databases PubMed and CINAHL for the period 2007-April 2017. We also performed additional …

Purpose: Measurement of muscle mass is paramount in the screening and diagnosis of sarcopenia. Besides muscle quantity however, also quality assessment is important. Ultrasonography (US) has the advantage over dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) and bio-impedance analysis (BIA) to give both quantitative …

Background: Victimization among children is associated with adverse effects on their physical and psychological health. Many health complaints follow as a result of bullying and anxiety and depression also precede bullying. The Dutch school-wide antibullying program ‘Prima’ was developed based on techniques …