Publications by authors named "Naaldenberg J"

Background: People with an intellectual disability face diverse health disparities, including challenges accessing cancer care. In the Netherlands, as in many other countries, there are national screening programmes for early detection of breast, cervical, and colon cancer. These programmes were, however, initially introduced for the general population, and they often fail to meet the needs of the population with intellectual disability.

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  • Innovative technologies like smart continence care (SCC) can enhance healthcare for individuals with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) by assisting caregivers in managing continence needs, though further research is necessary for effective implementation.
  • A study involved interviews with stakeholders across four care organizations, using frameworks related to eHealth implementation to identify essential themes in the SCC implementation process, such as support creation, stakeholder communication, and problem-solving strategies.
  • Successful SCC adoption depends on early involvement of stakeholders, clear role expectations, and effective problem-solving, which together can lead to improved support and better integration of person-centered continence care practices.
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  • * Through semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders, six key mechanisms were identified that enhance work-related sense of coherence (Work-SoC) for these employees, including supportive relationships and practical support.
  • * The findings suggest that leveraging these mechanisms can promote health and inclusion in the workplace, requiring active recognition and utilization by employees and supervisors alike to create a sustainable and supportive work environment for those with LCW.
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Purpose: Understanding sustainable employability (SE) of people with limited capability for work (LCW) due to physical or mental disability is crucial for the sustainable participation of this target group. Therefore, adequate measurement instruments for SE are needed. This study aims to validate a questionnaire to measure SE among people with LCW using a participatory approach, including person-job fit (PJ fit) and work-related sense of coherence (Work-SoC).

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Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) face barriers in cancer care contributing to poorer oncological outcomes. Yet, understanding cancer risks in the ID population remains incomplete.

Aim: To provide an overview of cancer incidence and cancer risk assessments in the entire ID population as well as within ID-related disorders.

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Background: People with intellectual disability have a poorer health status than the general population. In The Netherlands, support workers play a key role in meeting health support needs of people with intellectual disability. Research on how people with intellectual disability and their support workers experience the support worker's role in preventing, identifying, and following up health needs of people with intellectual disability is scarce.

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Background: The use of eHealth is more challenging for people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) than for the general population because the technologies often do not fit the complex needs and living circumstances of people with IDs. A translational gap exists between the developed technology and users' needs and capabilities. User involvement approaches have been developed to overcome this mismatch during the design, development, and implementation processes of the technology.

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Background: Although high rates of COVID-19-related deaths have been reported for people with intellectual disabilities during the first 2 years of the pandemic, it is unknown to what extent the pandemic has impacted existing mortality disparities for people with intellectual disabilities. In this study, we linked a Dutch population-based cohort that contained information about intellectual disability statuses with the national mortality registry to analyse both cause-specific and all-cause mortality in people with and without intellectual disabilities, and to make comparisons with pre-pandemic mortality patterns.

Methods: This population-based cohort study used a pre-existing cohort that included the entire Dutch adult population (everyone aged ≥18 years) on Jan 1, 2015, and identified people with presumed intellectual disabilities through data linkage.

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Genetic factors and lifestyle contribute to specific risks for developing cancer in people with intellectual disabilities. However, early detection and oncological care are less accessible to people with intellectual disabilities than to the general population, contributing to relatively more cancer-related deaths in this population. In order to optimally adapt oncological care to the characteristics and needs of people with intellectual disabilities, regular treatment may need to be adjusted sometimes.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected persons in long-term care, who often experience health disparities. To delineate the COVID-19 disease burden among persons with intellectual disabilities, we prospectively collected data from 36 care facilities for 3 pandemic waves during March 2020-May 2021. We included outcomes for 2,586 clients with PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, among whom 161 had severe illness and 99 died.

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Background: Medical care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is organized differently across the globe and interpretation of the concept of medical care for people with IDD may vary across countries. Existing models of medical care are not tailored to the specific medical care needs of people with IDD. This study aims to provide an improved understanding of which aspects constitute medical care for people with IDD by exploring how international researchers and practitioners describe this care, using concept mapping.

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Adults with intellectual disabilities face disparities in receipt of cancer-related care, which could contribute to an increase in the rate of cancer-related deaths in this population. Yet, relatively little is known about the optimal cancer treatment or treatment decision making in adults with intellectual disabilities. This scoping review assessed PubMed and Embase for available literature on the description of cancer treatment and treatment decision making in patients with intellectual disabilities, published in English between Jan 1, 2000, and April 30, 2020.

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Background: Concerns have been raised about access to cancer screening and the timely receipt of cancer care for people with an intellectual disability (ID). However, knowledge about cancer mortality as a potential consequence of these disparities is still limited. This study, therefore, compared cancer-related mortality patterns between people with and without ID.

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Background: Out-of-hours primary care for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) involves different groups of health care professionals, who are often not familiar to one another nor to the specific health care needs of this vulnerable population. It is not known to what extend these specific health care needs or organizational factors influence the delivery of out-of-hours primary care for people with ID.

Objective: The objective of this study is to explore the experiences of health care professionals regarding the medical content and the organizational context of out-of-hours primary care for people with ID.

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Objectives: Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) depend on public services for daily support and medical care; however, this group of individuals can be difficult to identify within population data. This therefore limits the opportunities to accurately estimate the size of the population with ID, monitor trends and tailor public health interventions according to the needs and characteristics of this group. By linking relevant databases, this study sought to identify individuals with ID in national data, to estimate the prevalence of ID based on public service use and to explore how this method can be used to better monitor the population with ID.

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Objective: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) are largely dependent on their environment to live healthily and, in this, ID-support organizations play a vital role. An environmental asset mapping tool for ID-support settings has been developed. This study aims to provide insight into whether or not the tool can provide a comprehensive view on assets in the system and actionable knowledge to improve health-promoting capacities in ID-support settings.

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Aims: To conduct an epidemiological analysis of patterns observed in diabetes care provided to individuals with and without intellectual disabilities (ID) in primary care settings.

Methods: An ID-cohort (N = 21,203) was compared with a control group of similar age and sex from the general Dutch population (N = 267,628). Distinctive data for diabetes (both type 1 and type 2) and related complications were retrieved from national databases.

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Medical technologies, e-health and personalised medicine are rapidly changing the healthcare landscape. Successful implementation depends on interactions between the technology, the actors and the context. More traditional reductionistic approaches aim to understand isolated factors and linear cause-effect relations and have difficulties in addressing inter-relatedness and interaction.

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Background: Concerns have been raised about the accessibility and quality of cancer-related care for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). However, there is limited insight into cancer incidence and the utilization of cancer care at the ID population level to inform targeted cancer control strategies. Therefore, we aimed to examine differences in the utilization of cancer-related care between people with and without ID, identified through diagnostic codes on health insurance claims.

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Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) depend on their environment to live healthily. Asset-based health promotion enhances a settings' health-promoting capacity starting with identifying protective or promotive factors that sustain health.

Method: This inclusive mixed-methods study used group sessions to generate and rank ideas on assets supporting healthy nutrition and physical activity in Dutch intellectual disability care settings.

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Background: Data on the development of Covid-19 among people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) are scarce and it is uncertain to what extent general population data applies to people with ID. To give an indication of possible implications, this study investigated excess mortality patterns during a previous influenza epidemic.

Methods: Using Dutch population and mortality registers, a historical cohort study was designed to compare mortality during the 2017-2018 influenza epidemic with mortality in the same period in the three previous years.

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Taking the dynamics of everyday life into account is important for health behavior change. Surveys were conducted to gain insight into available health promoting physical activity and nutrition initiatives in the everyday life of people with intellectual disability (ID). Researchers considered characteristics of the initiatives and the attention they give to resources and hindering factors of healthy living for people with ID.

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People with intellectual disabilities (ID) have unhealthier lifestyles than the general population. To sustainably improve their lifestyle and health status, a whole-system approach to creating healthy environments is crucial. To gain insight into how support for physical activity and healthy nutrition can be embedded in a setting, asset mapping can be helpful.

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People with intellectual disabilities (ID) depend on their environment for support to live healthily. The characteristics of healthy settings for people with ID are unknown. This study aims to conceptualize healthy settings for people with ID by conducting an international and multidisciplinary concept mapping study.

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Background: Inclusive research is studied mainly in short-term collaborations between researchers with and without intellectual disabilities focusing on practicalities. Structural study of long-term collaborations can provide insight into different roles of inclusive researchers, thereby contributing to a collective approach.

Method: Interviews with inclusive research team members (n = 3), colleagues (n = 8), and managers (n = 2) and three group discussions within the inclusive research team were held.

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