A prediction model for electroconvulsive therapy effectiveness in patients with major depressive disorder from the Dutch ECT Consortium (DEC).

Reliable predictors for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) effectiveness would allow a more precise and personalized approach for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). Prediction models were created using a priori selected clinical variables based on previous meta-analyses. Multivariable linear regression analysis was used, applying backwards selection to determine predictor variables while allowing non-linear relations, to develop a prediction model for depression outcome post-ECT (and logistic regression for remission and response as secondary outcome measures).

Rivastigmine for ECT-induced cognitive adverse effects in late life depression (RECALL study): A multicenter, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial in patients with depression aged 55 years or older: Rationale, objectives and methods.

Background: Cognitive side-effects are an important reason for the limited use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Cognitive side-effects are heterogeneous and occur frequently in older persons. To date, insight into these side-effects is hampered due to inconsistencies in study designs and small sample sizes.

Correction: Psychological Distress in the Hospital Setting: A Comparison between Native Dutch and Immigrant Patients.

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Psychological Distress in the Hospital Setting: A Comparison between Native Dutch and Immigrant Patients.

Background: Prevalence of psychological distress (i.e. depressive and anxiety symptoms) in medically ill patients is high.

Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey.

Background: Although job-related burnout and its core feature emotional exhaustion are common among medical professionals and compromise job satisfaction and professional performance, they have never been systematically studied in medical professors, who have central positions in academic medicine.

Methods: We performed an online nationwide survey inviting all 1206 medical professors in The Netherlands to participate. They were asked to fill out the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a 'professional engagement' inventory, and to provide demographic and job-specific data.

Publication pressure and burn out among Dutch medical professors: a nationwide survey.

Background: Publication of scientific research papers is important for professionals working in academic medical centres. Quantitative measures of scientific output determine status and prestige, and serve to rank universities as well as individuals. The pressure to generate maximum scientific output is high, and quantitative aspects may tend to dominate over qualitative ones.

[The happy scientist].

Introduction: The H-index is a frequently used scale to rank scientists on their scientific output. Whether subjective feeling of happiness is influenced by the level of the H-index on scientists has never been investigated.

Objective: To investigate the relation between the level of the H index as a measure of scientific success and feelings of unhappiness among Dutch professors.

Improving adherence to antidepressants: a systematic review of interventions.

Background: Effectiveness of antidepressant medication is reduced by patients' nonadherence. Several interventions to improve adherence in patients diagnosed with unipolar depression have been tested.

Objective: To systematically review the effectiveness of interventions that aimed to improve adherence to antidepressant medication in patients with unipolar depression.