Housing associations make too small a contribution to society, the government has to step in too frequently because of maladministration, and the associations' executives are often unaware of the far-reaching impact of their decisions. These are the conclusions of new academic research conducted by Jan …

In patients with COPD, self-management skills are important to reduce the impact of exacerbations. However, both detection and adequate response to exacerbations appear to be difficult for some patients. Little is known about the underlying process of exacerbation-related self-management. Therefore, …

Het doel van dit onderzoek is het verduidelijken van de functie van het medium met betrekking tot de werkalliantie van de vaktherapeut en jongeren, 12-25 jaar, binnen gedwongen kader. De doelgroep is door de adolescentie minder makkelijk te behandelen (Tieleman, M., 2011). Daarnaast is binnen de JJI …

Persuasive games exist for a wide variety of objectives, from marketing, to healthcare and activism. Some of the more socially-aware ones cast players as members of disenfranchised minorities, such as migrants, prompting them to 'see what they see'. In parallel, a growing number of designers has recently …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd om helderheid te verkrijgen over de huidige implementatie van vaktherapie binnen Stichting Meerkring, volgens de vaktherapeuten en het bestuur. De hoofdvraag is: ‘Welke mogelijkheden zijn er, met het verschil in doelstellingen, om de vaktherapie binnen Stichting Meerkring …

Although assessment practices are commonly part of the physical education (PE) curriculum they may often frustrate rather than support students’ basic needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness. Nevertheless, assessment also provides various promising opportunities to support these basic needs and …

Background: In the Netherlands, most patients with severe mental illness (SMI) receive flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) provided by multidisciplinary community mental health teams. SMI patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are sometimes offered evidence-based trauma-focused …

Background: In postoperative pain treatment patients are asked to rate their pain experience on a single uni-dimensional pain scale. Such pain scores are also used as indicator to assess the quality of pain treatment. However, patients may differ in how they interpret the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model on how business managers perceive that an employee’s psychological contract influences his or her attitude toward an organizational change. More specifically, it aims to provide insight into the managerial views on: first, the affective, behavioral …

Studenten in het hbo ervaren nogal wat onzekerheid tijdens het doen van onderzoek. Dat is lastig, want teveel onzekerheid verlamt de student in het onderzoeksproces. Toch is enige mate van onzekerheid nuttig voor het ontwikkelen van een reflectieve en onderzoekende houding. Dan moet er wel sprake zijn …