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 …

This article describes the results of a study into the psychometric properties of a questionnaire about student nurses' perceptions of mental health care. The questionnaire was constructed in 2008, but has not yet been tested in terms of construct validity and reliability. A validated questionnaire is …

In psychiatric care professionals perceive some patients as 'difficult', especially patients with long-term non-psychotic disorders. For these patients few evidence-based treatments exist. An intervention program, Interpersonal Community Psychiatric Treatment (ICPT), was developed by the authors. It …

Circa twee derde van de Nederlanders met dementie woont thuis. Thuis wonen is gewenst en dan het liefst op een zo veilig mogelijke manier. Met bouwkundige woningaanpassingen kan het langer veilig thuis wonen worden ondersteund. Dit artikel geeft een overzicht van de veiligheidsaspecten in de woning, …