Midwives' readiness for midwife-led care: a mixed-methods study.

Background/problem: To integrate midwife-led care in Belgian maternity services, understanding whether midwives are primed of executing the change is needed.

Aim: To explore Belgian midwives' readiness for midwife-led care and understand the underlying processes.

Methods: A mixed-methods sequential study: 1) A survey including 414 practising midwives and 2) individual interviews with 12 (student) midwives.

Well-being Effects of a Subsidy Retention Fund for Renovation of Dwellings of Locked-in Owners in Ghent.

With its subsidy retention fund, the city of Ghent targets homeowners, who live in a dwelling of bad quality and do not have the resources to renovate or move out. Being in this no-choice situation, they are locked-in homeowners. Through this innovative policy instrument, Ghent aims to improve the quality of its housing stock targeting households who may not take up other renovation-encouraging instruments.

The Development and Validation of an Intercultural Nursing Educator Profile Using the Delphi Method.

Introduction: Educators require focused training to foster the development of intercultural competence in nurses. Training programs for educators need to be based on a comprehensive profile with a focus on intercultural learning. This study aims to define and validate a profile of the Intercultural Nursing Educator (INE).

Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion.

Worldwide, children face adverse childhood experiences, being exposed to risks ranging from, exposure to political violence and forced migration over the deleterious effects of climate change, to unsafe cultural practices. As a consequence, children that seek refuge or migrate to European countries are extremely vulnerable, often struggling with integration in school, peer community, and their broader social circle. This multifaceted struggle can derive from external factors, such as the adaptation process and contact with other children, or internal factors such as the fears and trauma that every child carries within them since they departed from their homeland.

Palliative care utilisation: family carers' behaviours and determinants-a qualitative interview study.

Objectives: Most research on starting palliative care focuses on the role of healthcare services and professional carers. However, patients and their family carers may also play a role. Especially opportunities for starting palliative care might exist among family carers.

Unravelling Motor Learning Processes in Theater Performers.

Theater performers, more than common actors, experience high physical loadings. This study aimed at analyzing the motor behavior of novice performers (dancers/actors who were introduced to the acting method of Jan Fabre) by investigating the kinematics of a physical acting exercise in a prospective study. Two measurement sessions were organized: before and after the novice performers (N = 13) took part in seven workshops.

High intensity smoking cessation interventions: Cardiac patients of low socioeconomic status and low intention to quit profit most.

Background: Without assistance, smokers being admitted to the hospital for coronary heart disease often return to regular smoking within a year.

Objective: This study assessed the 12-month effectiveness of a telephone and a face-to-face counselling intervention on smoking abstinence among cardiac patients. Differential effects for subgroups varying in their socioeconomic status and intention to quit smoking were also studied.