Publications by authors named "Bert Quintiens"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how willing individuals are to assist neighbors in need, focusing on emotional and practical support during serious illness or dying.
- A survey conducted in Flanders, Belgium, revealed that respondents were more willing to help caregivers of dying partners than older individuals needing assistance, with an average willingness rating of 3.41 and 3.85, respectively.
- Factors that increased willingness included having a positive outlook on support, personal caregiving experience, and prior volunteering in related contexts, indicating that community initiatives could leverage these insights to enhance support networks.
Article Synopsis
- There is a recognized need for better public education on palliative care, emphasizing the importance of understanding what is known and unknown about it, particularly among different demographic groups.
- A survey conducted in Flanders engaged 4,400 individuals, yielding a 45.6% response rate, revealing that while many know palliative care isn’t just for older adults, many are unaware of its key goals, like enhancing daily life participation.
- The findings suggest that while basic knowledge exists, significant gaps remain, highlighting the necessity for targeted educational strategies that address these areas rather than focusing solely on broader concepts.
Discomfort With Suffering and Dying, a Cross-Sectional Survey of the General Public.
J Pain Symptom Manage
November 2023
Context: Death and the process of dying have become increasingly medicalized and professionalized. The associated cultural estrangement from death may affect how comfortable we feel about death and dying. This study examines the general public's discomfort with another person's suffering and dying, and whether these feelings are associated with specific personal characteristics or experiences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/objectives: Compassionate Cities are social ecology approaches that apply a set of actions, targeting a broad range of stakeholders, with the intention of renormalising caring, dying, loss and grieving in everyday life. While several initiatives have been described in the literature, a rigorous evaluation of their processes and outcomes is lacking. This article describes the protocol for a mixed-methods study to evaluate the development process and the outcomes of two Compassionate Cities in Flanders, Belgium.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Area-Based Compassionate Communities are community public health interventions which focus on the role of the community in palliative care provision. They apply a set of actions based on the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion which aims to increase people's control over their health.
Aim: To review and compare Area-Based Compassionate Communities with respect to their contextual characteristics, development processes and evaluations.
Background: New public health approaches to palliative care such as compassionate communities aim to increase capacity in serious illness, death, and loss by involving civic society. Civic engagement has been described in many domains of health; a description of the characteristics, processes, and impact of the initiatives in palliative care is lacking.
Aim: To systematically describe and compare civic engagement initiatives in palliative care in terms of context, development, impact, and evaluation methods.