Background: To be accountable to laws and regulations, healthcare professionals spend more than 40% of their time on administrative tasks. The Compulsory Mental Healthcare Act (CMHA) was introduced in Dutch mental healthcare in 2020. It was hypothesized that this legislative amendment would raise the …

Our nursing students often do not experience a basis of equality and trust during their clinical placements, in their interactions with patients, clinical supervisors, or other healthcare professionals1,. Connecting or Nonviolent Communication, which focuses on interpersonal rather than job specific …

Interview: Richard Vijverberg promoveerde op 31 januari 2022 aan de Vrije Universiteit op zijn proefschrift Care needs of children and adolescents in psychiatry. Steps towards personalized mental healthcare.

There is a global shortage of nurses due to the increasing demand for healthcare with an ageing population, while the labour force is demographically declining. Therefore, it is important to educate and retain more nurses for the healthcare sector. More nursing students will have to be trained within …

Volunteering as a complement to formal care is important in shaping a participation society and is necessary due to increasing healthcare costs and the reduced availability of healthcare personnel. However, little is known about the mental health and factors that influence the mental health of a specific …

Background: Pregnant women have preferences about how they intend to manage labour pain. Unmet intentions can result in negative emotions and/or birth experiences. Objective: To examine the antenatal level of intention for intrapartum pain relief and the factors that might predict this intention. Design: …

Abstract Background: Children and adolescents in mental healthcare often perceive their care needs and necessary treatment differently from their clinicians. As such discordance between young patients and clinicians may obstruct treatment adherence and compromise treatment outcomes, it is important to …

Abstract Background: Several interventions have been developed to improve physical health and lifestyle behaviour of people with a severe mental illness (SMI). Recently, we conducted a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial which evaluated the efects of the one-year Severe Mental Illness Lifestyle …

Proefschrift Richard Vijverberg

The emergence of wearable sensors that allow for unobtrusive monitoring of physiological and behavioural patterns introduces new opportunities to study the impact of stress in a real-world context. This study explores to what extent within-subject trends in daily Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and daily …