A Pilot Study Evaluating the Physiological Parameters of Performance-Induced Stress in Undergraduate Music Students.

Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a specific condition for musicians. Although it can have a negative influence on their music careers, little attention is paid to this phenomenon both in the professional environment and in stress research. In the current pilot study, insight was gained into the physiology of the autonomic stress response related to anxiety in musicians when performing on stage by using a wearable biosensor patch for registration of a range of physiological parameters.

[Assessment of guideline adherence and quality of care with routine outcome monitoring data].

Treatment guidelines are widely used nowadays but it is not really clear whether or to what extent patients in routine care benefit from these guidelines.
AIM: To achieve a twofold objective: to measure in a routine clinical setting, the overall level of adherence to clinical guidelines by using a set of process indicators that are independent of the disorder under study, and to measure the clinical and psychosocial correlates of adherence among outpatients suffering from mood, anxiety and somatoform disorders.
METHOD: We developed a set of quality indicators and tested the set over a period of three years in a randomly selected sample of 300 outpatients who were about to receive treatment for a mood, anxiety and somatoform disorder.

When Contact Is Not Enough: Affecting First Year Medical Students' Image towards Older Persons.

Context: Many medical schools have initiated care internships to familiarize their students with older persons and to instil a professional attitude.

Objective: To examine the impact of care internships on the image that first-year medical students have of older persons and to explore the underlying concepts that may play a role in shaping this image.

Design: Survey before and after a two-week compulsory care internship using the Aging Semantic Differential (ASD; 32 adjectives) and the Attitudes toward Old People (AOP; 34 positions) questionnaires.

The development, implementation and evaluation of a transitional care programme to improve outcomes of frail older patients after hospitalisation.

Background: fragmented healthcare systems are poorly suited to treat the increasing number of older patients with multimorbidity.

Objective: to report on the development, implementation and evaluation of a regional transitional care programme, aimed at improving the recovery rate of frail hospitalised older patients.

Methods: the programme was drafted in co-creation with organisations representing older adults, care providers and knowledge institutes.

Effect of chronic somatic diseases on the course of late-life depression.

Objective: To examine the influence of specific chronic somatic diseases and overall somatic diseases burden on the course of depression in older persons.

Methods: This was a prospective cohort study with a 2-year follow-up. Participants were depressed persons (n = 285) from the Netherlands Study of Depression in Older Persons.