Arch Psychiatr Nurs
December 2024
Dimence Mental Health Center for Bipolar Disorders, Pikeursbaan 3, 7411 GT Deventer, Netherlands; Radboud Institute for Health Sciences IQ Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Electronic address:
Background: An important element of self-management strategies for people with bipolar disorder is adapting their lifestyle to their condition, since this improves their quality of life. However, not all people with bipolar disorder succeed in lifestyle adaptation. Knowledge about their lived experience with adaptation would enhance understanding about how healthcare providers optimize support.
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October 2024
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Department of Psychiatry, Leiden, the Netherlands; Health Campus The Hague, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Hague, the Netherlands.
Background: Childhood trauma, including emotional neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse, may contribute to borderline personality features like affective instability, identity problems, negative relationships, and self-harm. This study aims to explore how different types of childhood trauma affect these features in bipolar versus unipolar depressive disorders.
Methods: We included 839 participants of the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) with a lifetime diagnosis of major depressive disorder single episode (MDDS; N = 443), recurrent major depressive disorder (MDD-R; N = 331), or bipolar disorder (BD; N = 65).
Psychol Med
October 2023
Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Center, Center for Mindfulness, Reinier Postlaan 4, 6526 GC, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Background: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) seems a promising intervention for bipolar disorder (BD), but there is a lack of randomised controlled trials (RCT) investigating this. The purpose of this multicentre, evaluator blinded RCT was to investigate the added value of MBCT to treatment as usual (TAU) in BD up to 15 months follow-up (NCT03507647).
Methods: A total of 144 participants with BD type I and II were randomised to MBCT + TAU ( = 72) and TAU ( = 72).
Bipolar Disord
November 2023
Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care, Outpatient clinic for Bipolar Disorders, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Objective: This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of the Manic Thought Inventory (MTI), a patient-driven self-report inventory to assess the presence of typical (hypo)manic cognitions.
Methods: The initial item pool was generated by patients with bipolar disorder (BD) type I and assessed for suitability by five psychiatrists specialized in treating BD. Study 1 describes the item analysis and exploratory factor structure of the MTI in a sample of 251 patients with BD type I.
Front Psychiatry
November 2021
Center for Bipolar Disorders, Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Pharmacotherapy is a cornerstone in bipolar disorder (BD) treatment whereas borderline personality disorder (BPD) is treated primarily with psychotherapy. Given the overlap in symptomatology, patients with BD may benefit from psychotherapy designed for BPD. This paper reports the findings of a non-controlled open feasibility study of STEPPS training in patients with BD and borderline personality features (BPF).
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November 2021
Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Int J Soc Psychiatry
May 2022
Center for Bipolar Disorders, Dimence Group, Deventer, The Netherlands.
Background: Police officers and members of a mobile crisis team (MCT) are the two actors who respond to nuisance in Dutch society related to 'persons with confused behavior' and serious violent incidents. Their collaboration creates tension and dissatisfaction about roles and responsibilities.
Aim: To explore the lived experiences of, and collaboration between, police officers and members of a MCT.
Perspect Psychiatr Care
July 2021
Center for Bipolar Disorders, Dimence Mental Health, Deventer, The Netherlands.
Purpose: To explore the experiences of ambulance nurses in emergency care of patients with acute manic and/or psychotic symptoms.
Methods: In this qualitative study, 14 interviews were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis according to Braun and Clarke (2006).
Findings: Psychiatric emergency care causes stress and uncomfortable feelings for ambulance nurses due to a lack of information on the patients, being alone with the patient in a small place and the unpredictability of the situation.
J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc
September 2022
Thea H. Daggenvoorde, MSc, RN, Dimence Mental Health Center for Bipolar Disorders, Deventer, Netherlands; Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Background: When patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder are suffering from acute mania (involuntary), hospitalization is often necessary. Patients are often quite disruptive, which makes it difficult to regulate their behavior and manage them in their current condition. The nursing team must also ensure the safety of the other patients on the ward.
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April 2020
Division Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Purpose: To examine the experiences of outpatients with bipolar disorder recording a 10-minute film to show their "being" in a euthymic mood state.
Design And Methods: A multicenter qualitative study, in the context of a feasibility study for a newly developed intervention. Data were analyzed using the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method.
J Clin Psychol
October 2019
Department of Psychology, Health, and Technology, Center for eHealth and Well-being Research, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Objectives: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Responses to Positive Affect (RPA) questionnaire in a sample of persons with bipolar disorder (BD).
Method: Cross-sectional survey study with 107 persons with BD. The original 3-factor model of the RPA was compared with a 2-factor model.
BMC Psychiatry
April 2019
Department of Psychiatry, Centre for Mindfulness, Radboud University Medical Centre, Postbus 9101, 6500, HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Background: Despite multiple pharmacological interventions, many people with bipolar disorder (BD) experience substantial residual mood symptoms, even in the absence of severe mood episodes, which have a negative impact on the course of illness and quality of life. Limited data are available on how to optimize treatment for BD, especially for those who suffer from persistent and residual depressive symptoms. Preliminary evidence suggests Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) as a psychological treatment option for BD.
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September 2019
Centre for eHealth and Well-being Research, Department of Psychology, Health, and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.
Perspect Psychiatr Care
January 2020
Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Senior Researcher, Dimence Mental Health, Center for Bipolar Disorders, Deventer, The Netherlands.
Purpose: To describe the experiences of patients with nursing care they had received when hospitalized for mania.
Design And Methods: Multicenter qualitative study using open interviews. Data were analyzed using the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method.
J Affect Disord
April 2019
Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
BMC Psychiatry
October 2018
Center for eHealth and Well-being Research, Department of Psychology, Health, and Technology, University of Twente, PO Box 217, Enschede, 7500 AE, the Netherlands.
Psychol Med
September 2019
Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Background: In a large and comprehensively assessed sample of patients with bipolar disorder type I (BDI), we investigated the prevalence of psychotic features and their relationship with life course, demographic, clinical, and cognitive characteristics. We hypothesized that groups of psychotic symptoms (Schneiderian, mood incongruent, thought disorder, delusions, and hallucinations) have distinct relations to risk factors.
Methods: In a cross-sectional study of 1342 BDI patients, comprehensive demographical and clinical characteristics were assessed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I) interview.
Perspect Psychiatr Care
January 2019
Dimence Mental Health Center for Bipolar Disorders, Deventer, The Netherlands.
Purpose: To describe the experiences of informal caregivers with the nursing care received by relatives hospitalized for mania.
Design And Methods: Multicenter phenomenological study using open interviews. Data were analyzed using the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method.
Int J Bipolar Disord
September 2017
Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: Although bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) share clinical characteristics and frequently co-occur, their interrelationship is controversial. Especially, the differentiation of rapid cycling BD and BPD can be troublesome. This study investigates the relationship between borderline personality features (BPF) and prospective illness course in patients with BD, and explores the effects of current mood state on self-reported BPF profiles.
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August 2017
Mental Health Service Noord-Holland Noord, Specialized Treatment Division, Treatment Center for Bipolar Disorders, Alkmaar, The Netherlands.
Background: Premenstrual syndrome is characterized by the cyclic occurrence of physical, behavioral and psychological symptoms during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle disappearing within a few days of the onset of menstruation. Generally symptoms are mild, but 5-8% of women suffer from severe PMS. Apart from conventional drugs, like serotonin reuptake inhibitors and oral contraceptives, complementary and alternative medicines such as Vitex agnus castus are used by many women experiencing PMS.
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July 2016
Early Psychosis Department,Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Academic Psychiatric Center,Arkin,Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
Background: Dysfunction of neuroplasticity due to N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor hypofunction may be a causal factor for memory and executive dysfunctioning in schizophrenia. Deregulation of NMDA transmission in the prefrontal cortex may also explain negative and positive symptoms. Clozapine augmentation with memantine targets altered NMDA receptor-mediated neurotransmission in schizophrenia and showed substantial beneficial effects on several symptom domains in a small proof-of-concept study.
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June 2015
Dimence Mental Health, Center for Bipolar Disorders, Pikeursbaan 3, Deventer, the Netherlands; Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; GGZVS, Institute for the Education of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Mental Health, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Ghent University, Department of Nursing Science, Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address:
Patients with a bipolar disorder and currently experiencing acute mania often require hospitalization. We explored patient problems, desired patient outcomes, and nursing interventions by individually interviewing 22 nurses. Qualitative content analysis gave a top five of patients problems, desired patient outcomes and nursing interventions, identified as most important in the interviews.
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September 2014
Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, UMC, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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