OBJECTIVE: Ever since Engel's Biopsychosocial Model (1977) emotions, thoughts, beliefs and behaviors are accepted as important factors of health. The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief IPQ) assesses these beliefs. Aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the Brief IPQ into the Brief …

Educational programs in general have to be able to adequately adapt and implement changes when required. Generally, due to either changing demands from the working field or when the quality of the program needs to be amended, the study program needs to be further optimized. The central theme of this …

The EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a non-profit organisation based in Malaysia. The core business of the Chamber is advocacy through lobbying and events. The Chamber has asked for a visibility strategy to be set. The reason for this is that with many chambers of commerce and business …

Neckermann, one of the biggest tour operators in The Netherlands, wanted to improve the product placement on the lister pages of the website Neckermann.nl. This report provides a way to arrange the product placement for different customer segments on the website. In order to do so, the customer preferences …

We thank the authors Hayden and Glenn for commenting on our paper ‘The introduction of a nursing guideline on depression at psychogeriatric nursing home wards: Effects on Certified Nurse Assistants’, which was published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies (Verkaik et al., 2011). In our paper …

The objective is to describe the German horse feed market and its developments and to investigate what the change in legislation means to production, packaging and marketing processes for feed manufacturers and therefore what manufacturer’s problems with the new legislation are. Furthermore it has to …

Als studenten van de opleiding logopedie aan de Hogeschool Utrecht hebben wij onderzoek gedaan naar observatie-instrumenten voor het beoordelen van de orale voedingsvaardigheden bij prema-tuur geboren zuigelingen. Het Early Feeding Skills (EFS) Assessment, ontwikkeld door S. Thoyre (2003) staat binnen …

Adherence to the guideline ‘Triage in emergency departments’ : A survey of Dutch emergency departments

Implementing evidence-based guidelines is not a simple task. This study aimed to define barriers to and facilitators for implementing the proven and effective Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia (COTiD) guideline for older people with dementia and their carers. The qualitative method we used was …