Publications by authors named "W A van Dijk"
Previous research has demonstrated that hearing impairment is associated with heightened subjective experiences of listening effort, fatigue, and stress, impacting daily functioning. This study aimed to evaluate whether hearing impairment alters physiological stress systems and whether different aspects of hearing impairment could vary in predicting dysregulation in these systems. Hallmark measures of parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activity were derived from electrocardiography, impedance cardiography, and electrodermal activity recordings taken from 133 individuals, aged 37 to 73, over two 24-hr periods, including sleep.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnthusiasm is a relatively under-explored emotion. The current research explores the unique characteristics of enthusiasm by examining its cognitive appraisals (Study 1, = 300) and response types (Study 2, = 298) and comparing it with joy and hope. Participants in both studies recalled and rated events where they felt enthusiasm, joy, or hope.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Up to 12% of patients undergoing minimally invasive inguinal hernia repair may develop chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP), possibly explained by the presence of mesh. Recent studies reported that laparoscopic mesh removal is feasible and safe. However, the risk of a hernia recurrence is unknown.
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- This study investigates the occurrence, symptom patterns, and factors influencing post-acute COVID symptoms in a sample of the Dutch population using data from the COVID RADAR app.
- The research included 1478 participants who recorded their symptoms from 40 days before to 100 days after a positive COVID test, identifying cough, loss of smell or taste, and fatigue as the most common ongoing symptoms.
- The findings revealed that about 8% of participants still had symptoms after 100 days, with symptoms grouped into three clusters and vaccination linked to a reduced risk of long-term symptoms, highlighting the complexity of post-acute COVID experiences.
High-throughput sequencing technologies have increasingly led to discovery of disease-causing genetic variants, primarily in postnatal multi-cell DNA samples. However, applying these technologies to preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) in nuclear or mitochondrial DNA from single or few-cells biopsied from in vitro fertilised (IVF) embryos is challenging. PGT aims to select IVF embryos without genetic abnormalities.
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