Publications by authors named "A Sterckx"
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- Integrated nature-based interventions in healthcare are emerging as effective strategies to enhance both health and biodiversity, but there is a lack of robust quality assessment for these interventions.
- A qualitative study involving 22 professionals from seven Belgian healthcare facilities was conducted to refine a preliminary quality framework for evaluating integrated nature-based interventions.
- Findings highlighted the complexity of these interventions and resulted in nine quality criteria, including one newly identified criterion focused on capacity building, alongside existing ones from prior research.
Introduction: Implementing integrated nature-based interventions that simultaneously serve human health and the restoration of biodiversity in healthcare facilities is considered a promising strategy. As an emerging field of research and practice in healthcare, identification of quality criteria is necessary to support desired outcomes related to biodiversity, human health and intervention processes. This study is part of a larger research project in collaboration with the Flemish Agency of Nature and Forest in Belgium.
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- This study examines the effects of switching patients with inflammatory bowel disease from the original adalimumab drug to its biosimilar, SB5, particularly focusing on trough levels, effectiveness, and patient satisfaction.* -
- Conducted on 110 patients, it found that after the switch, trough levels stayed in the therapeutic range, with an 84.6% acceptance rate and 74.5% drug persistence after 12 months, demonstrating good patient compliance.* -
- Results indicated no significant deterioration in disease activity and a high level of patient satisfaction, though some patients experienced injection site pain, which was generally mild and limited to the initial 30 minutes post-injection.*
Burnout is, besides a global, complex phenomenon, a public health issue with negative consequences on personal, organizational, social, and economic levels. This paper outlines the co-design of a novel Nature-based Burnout Coaching intervention, called NABUCO. Due to the complexity of burnout, we propose a One Health approach in healthcare, educational and governmental pilot organizations, to deliver guidelines and protocols for prevention and recovery of burnout.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVisiting nature is positively associated with physical and mental well-being. The role of nature became more pronounced during the coronavirus outbreak in the spring of 2020. Countries all over the world implemented confinement measures to reduce the transmission of the virus.
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