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Challenges to Students' Learning and Wellbeing During Placement Abroad: A Qualitative Study Using Rich Pictures.

Perspect Med Educ

December 2024

School of Health Professions Education (SHE), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Introduction: Undergraduate healthcare students on placement abroad can experience challenges that affect their wellbeing, personal and professional development. These challenges may result in students taking a more peripheral role in workplace activities, which negatively impacts learning. We studied .

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Music performance anxiety (MPA) is one of the most reported psychological problems among musicians, posing a significant threat to the optimal performance, health, and psychological wellbeing of musicians. Most research on MPA treatment has focused on reducing symptoms of performance anxiety, but complete "cures" are uncommon. A promising addition or alternative that may help musicians enhance their performance under pressure, despite their anxiety, is pressure training (PT).

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Current insights on awake prone positioning in the ICU.

Intensive Crit Care Nurs

December 2024

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health, Sport and Physical Activity, Centre of Expertise Urban Vitality, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Intensive Care Department, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Background: Multidisciplinary transitional care interventions aim to improve the coordination and continuity of healthcare during hospitalization and after discharge for patients with complex care needs related to physical, nutritional, or psychosocial status. Implementing such interventions is complex as they involve many stakeholders across multiple settings. Numerous studies have evaluated patients', family members', and healthcare professionals' experiences with multidisciplinary transitional care interventions, which can provide insight into facilitators and barriers to their implementation.

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Background: Inadequate protein intake is associated with poor physical functioning and suboptimal recovery in hospitalised older adults. Despite standard dietetic care, dietary protein intakes falls well below the recommended levels. To address this problem, we developed an intensified trans-sectorial dietetic intervention that targets hospitalised older adults.

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  • Intellectual disability (ID) is a developmental disorder that significantly affects intellectual and adaptive functioning, and families in Pakistan dealing with such challenges face various undocumented hardships.
  • The study involved five families from Karachi, utilizing participatory action research to better understand their experiences with informal social support during the care of children with ID.
  • Key findings highlighted parents' sacrifices leading to increased anxiety, the lack of support from relatives, and issues of stigma and discrimination, while also noting the positive impact of religious beliefs and connections with other families for emotional support.
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Background: Transmural palliative care interventions aim to identify older persons with palliative care needs and timely provide advance care planning, symptom management, and coordination of care. Nurses can have an important role in these interventions; however, their expertise is currently underused. A new transmural care pathway with a central role for the community care registered nurse in advance care planning aims to contribute to the quality of palliative care for older persons.

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Exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev

December 2024

Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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  • Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a significant health problem that leads to chronic pain and decreased quality of life, with exercise being a recommended self-management strategy as there is currently no cure.
  • This review evaluates the effectiveness of land-based exercise for knee OA in three ways: comparing it to control groups, to no treatment/usual care, and in combination with other interventions.
  • A total of 139 randomized controlled trials involving over 12,000 participants were analyzed, focusing on outcomes like pain relief, physical function, and quality of life, with exercise interventions ranging from 2 to 104 weeks in duration.
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Objectives: To investigate changes in quality of life (QoL) up to 8 years after radical cystectomy (RC) and compare QoL after RC with a gender- and age-matched Dutch normative population. Furthermore, we aimed to identify patient characteristics associated with QoL and QoL trajectories after RC.

Patients And Methods: Patients with bladder cancer were invited to complete QoL questionnaires at 3-month intervals in the first year and yearly thereafter.

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Objective: Determine whether there is a relationship between the number of different lower-limb resistance exercises prescribed in a program and outcomes for people with knee osteoarthritis.

Methods: Systematic review with meta-regression. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, and Embase up to 4th January 2024.

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Pain in critically ill adults with burns should be assessed using structured pain behavioural observation measures. This study tested the clinimetric qualities and usability of the behaviour pain scale (BPS) and the critical-care pain observation tool (CPOT) in this population. This prospective observational cohort study included 132 nurses who rated pain behaviour in 75 patients.

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A growing interest in person-centered care from a biopsychosocial perspective has led to increased attention to structural screening. The aim of this study was to develop an easy-to-comprehend screening instrument using single items to identify a broad range of health-related problems in adult burn survivors. This study builds on earlier work regarding content generation.

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Background: A less developed professional identity negatively influences a person's mental well-being and is suggested to potentially affect quality of care and thus clients' well-being. Literature indicates that a strong developed professional identity is to strive for. In Flanders, Belgium, cultural and legislative challenges negatively impact the professional development of occupational therapists.

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Objective: In 2016, a selective preventive spinal immobilization protocol for emergency medical service (EMS) nurses was introduced in the Netherlands. This protocol leaves more room for autonomous decision-making in the pre-hospital phase regarding preventive spinal immobilization (PSI), compared to the previous strict protocol. In this study, we explored the experiences and perspectives of EMS nurses on decisionmaking about PSI after the change from a strict to a selective PSI protocol.

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To prepare patients' families for active care roles after discharge, a family involvement program was developed. We aimed to gain in-depth insight into patients' well-being and experience during the program regarding the active involvement of family caregivers after oncological gastrointestinal cancer surgery during their hospital stay. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 patients who participated in the program.

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Background: Although physical activity (PA) has positive effects on health and well-being, physical inactivity is a worldwide problem. Mobile health interventions have been shown to be effective in promoting PA. Personalizing persuasive strategies improves intervention success and can be conducted using machine learning (ML).

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Protein requirement in obesity.

Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care

January 2025

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health, Sport and Physical Activity, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Purpose Of Review: The combined obesity and ageing pandemic require action to avoid a total health system infarct. Obesity is largely challenged with caloric restriction and endurance exercise, likely to be assisted by drugs. The older adults with the highest obesity levels may face extreme loss of muscle mass and increased risk of sarcopenic obesity.

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Great disparity is observed among studies investigating the prevalence of PTSD after burns. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to explore the pooled prevalence of PTSD in adult burn survivors over the first two years post-burn. Five electronic databases were searched for observational studies assessing the prevalence of PTSD symptoms after burns.

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Capabilities for Using Telemonitoring in Physiotherapy Treatment: Exploratory Qualitative Study.

JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol

October 2024

Physiotherapy Department, Faculty of Health, Sport and Physical Activity, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Tafelbergweg 51, Amsterdam, 1105 BD, Netherlands, 31 634853608.

Background: Telemonitoring (TM), as part of telehealth, allows physiotherapists to monitor and coach their patients using remotely collected data. The use of TM requires a different approach compared with face-to-face treatment. Although a telehealth capability framework exists for health care professionals, it remains unclear what specific capabilities are required to use TM during physiotherapy treatments.

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Objective: The Plants for Joints (PFJ) intervention significantly improved pain, stiffness, and physical function, and metabolic outcomes, in people with metabolic syndrome-associated osteoarthritis (MSOA). This secondary analysis investigated its effects on body composition.

Method: In the randomized PFJ study, people with MSOA followed a 16-week intervention based on a whole-food plant-based diet, physical activity, and stress management, or usual care.

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Aims: To report the changes in nutritional status, nutrition-related complaints and risk of sarcopenia in individuals attending a primary care dietitian in the Netherlands after a COVID-19 infection.

Methods: The study was registered on the clinicaltrials.gov registry (NCT04735744).

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When defending against hostile enemies, individual group members can benefit from others staying in the group and fighting. However, individuals themselves may be better off by leaving the group and avoiding the personal risks associated with fighting. While fleeing is indeed commonly observed, when and why defenders fight or flee remains poorly understood and is addressed here with three incentivized and preregistered experiments (total n = 602).

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Background: Our aim was to identify dietary patterns by the level of maternal education that contribute to BMI, fat mass index (FMI), and fat-free mass index (FFMI) in children at age 5 and to assess if these dietary patterns are related to BMI at age 10.

Methods: Per group (low/middle/high level), Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) was used to derive dietary patterns for the response variables BMI z-score, FMI, and FFMI in 1728 children at age 5 in the Amsterdam Born Children and their Development (ABCD) cohort. Regression analyses were then used to determine the association with BMI at age 10.

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  • The study investigates how primary and social care professionals view interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in addressing malnutrition and sarcopenia among older adults living in the community.
  • The qualitative research involved online focus groups that revealed key areas of focus, including the need for smooth information exchange, regular consultations, and better involvement of older adults in IPC.
  • The findings suggest that effective IPC relies on a strong synergy between healthcare professionals, supportive infrastructure, and active participation from older adults to be successful.
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  • The study aimed to assess whether sticking to American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) exercise guidelines improved exercise results for people with knee osteoarthritis (OA).
  • A systematic review analyzed various trials comparing exercise outcomes for those who followed the guidelines more closely (≥60% compliance) versus those who didn’t (<60% compliance).
  • The findings indicated no significant differences in pain and function outcomes between higher and lower compliance groups, suggesting that simply adhering to guidelines may not impact exercise benefits for knee OA patients, although results should be considered carefully due to variability and potential biases in the studies.
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