Publications by authors named "F K Aarsen"

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  • Children diagnosed with brain tumors often experience neurocognitive problems, and this study investigates the impacts of post-traumatic stress and sleep on their cognitive abilities.
  • The research included 60 children aged 6-16, who completed questionnaires and neurocognitive tests 51 days after diagnosis, revealing they scored lower in attention, inhibition, and verbal memory compared to age norms.
  • Findings suggest that factors like tumor location and early treatment affect cognitive functioning, but post-traumatic stress and sleep did not show a significant association at this early assessment stage.
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Background: Comprehensive insight in the longitudinal development of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after childhood cancer diagnosis could improve quality of care. Thus, we aimed to study the course and biopsychosocial determinants of HRQOL in a unique national cohort of children with cancer.

Methods: HRQOL of 2154 children with cancer was longitudinally reported (median: 3 reports) between diagnosis and 5 years after, using the pediatric quality of life inventory generic core scales (PedsQL).

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Background/objectives: Children treated for cancer are at risk to develop cognitive problems. Insight in underlying associations with emotional functioning and fatigue can be used to optimize interventions. We therefore aim to study emotional functioning, fatigue, and cognitive functioning in children postcancer treatment and investigate whether fatigue mediates the relationship between emotional and cognitive functioning.

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Objective: Approximately 7%-50% of children with medulloblastoma (MB) develop postoperative cerebellar mutism syndrome (pCMS). pCMS has a short-term negative impact on intelligence, but effects on long-term outcomes are contradictory. The aim of this study was to assess long-term effects of pCMS in MB patients on aspects of intelligence quotient (IQ) and its perioperative risk factors.

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Advances in antiretroviral treatment improved the life expectancy of perinatally HIV-infected children. However, growing up with HIV provides challenges in daily functioning. This cross-sectional cohort study investigated the neuropsychological and psychosocial functioning of a group of perinatally HIV-infected children in the Netherlands and compared their outcomes with Dutch normative data and outcomes of a control group of uninfected siblings.

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