Background Transition clinics (TCs) are advocated as best practice to support young people with cystic fibrosis (CF) during transition to adulthood and adult care. We aimed to research the functioning of a TC for young people with CF compared with direct hand‐over care and to evaluate whether those treated …

Introduction For adequate pain treatment in patients with cancer, it is important to monitor and evaluate pain regularly. Although the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) is implemented in hospitals in the Netherlands, pain is still not systematically registered during outpatient consultations. The aim of this …

Aim Living with a chronic condition or a disability at older age impacts social participation. Social connections and social activities seem interrelated leading to heterogeneous patterns in social participation. The aim of this study was to identify a typology in social participation among older adults …

Er zijn recent verschillende studies in de verpleging met Q-methodologie uitgevoerd. Toch is deze methode relatief onbekend. In dit artikel de belangrijkste kenmerken.

‘Businessspiritualiteit’ staat steeds meer in de belangstelling. Maar wat bedoelen we daar eigenlijk mee? En wat willen of kunnen we met spiritualiteit in organisaties in bereiken? Worden we er bijvoorbeeld creatiever van? Of krijgen we er meer gevoel voor ethische zaken door – of misschien zelfs meer …

The global shortages of nurses require a closer look at why nursing students stop in the later years of their degree programme. The purpose of this study is to explore nursing students' experiences and reasons that lead to this late dropout. Semi-structured interviews were held in 2017 with eleven former …

This qualitative study explores perspectives towards motherhood of young Millennial women for preconception care purposes. The findings highlight the specific views that Millennial women have of motherhood: Mental mood boards portray both realistic and idealistic images of childbearing and motherhood. …

Background Disorders of the rotator cuff are a common musculoskeletal pain presentation in the general population, and treatment by a physiotherapist is often prescribed. In 2011, 2016, surveys of physiotherapy practice in the United Kingdom (UK) were performed, which reported that advice and exercise …

Prenatale moeder-kindbinding is een goede voorspeller voor de postnatale band tussen moeder en kind. Welke mogelijkheden zijn er om die binding te stimuleren? En hoe effectief zijn deze interventies?

Het wetenschappelijk bewijs voor het effect van fysiotherapie in de langdurige zorg is matig. Echter, interventies zoals beschreven in publicaties betreffen vaak standaardprogramma’s. Dit komt niet overeen met de dagelijkse praktijk in verpleeghuizen waar fysiotherapeuten in een multidisciplinair team …