17 results match your criteria: "Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences[Affiliation]"

Abstract: The Medical Research Council proposed a framework to develop and implement complex interventions in practice. How to adopt these interventions is described in recommendations of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Many factors may influence the complexity of a guideline.

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How oncologists assess and consider cognition in clinical decision-making with older adults.

J Geriatr Oncol

February 2025

End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Division of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Brussels & Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Research Centre Care in Connection, Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. Electronic address:

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Background: One in three older adults in the United States dies with or from dementia. Little is known about whether end-of-life caregiving experiences differ by dementia diagnosis.

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of two qualitative studies.

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Introduction: Perinatal loss, encompassing stillbirth and neonatal death, can have profound physical and psychological consequences for parents. Effective communication by healthcare professionals during this sensitive period is critical. This study aimed to explore how bereaved parents and professionals experienced verbal and non-verbal communication during perinatal loss.

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Issue: There is growing awareness of the benefits of treating patients in their own home, yet home-based detoxification of individuals with substance use disorder has received limited attention. While home-based alcohol detoxification seems to be safe and effective for patients without severe withdrawal, little is known about detoxification for illicit or polysubstance dependence. This review synthesises recent findings on home-based detoxification for alcohol and other substances.

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Introduction: Women with a migration background face significant barriers to accessing perinatal mental health support. This study aims to explore the needs, barriers and facilitators regarding perinatal mental health support in women with a first-generation migration background and how they experience support within their own community.

Methods: We conducted qualitative in-depth face-to-face interviews with mothers who gave birth within 12 months preceding the interview, recruited from an Antwerp maternity ward between August and September 2022.

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Background: Cancer navigation programs aim to support, educate, and empower patients and families, addressing barriers to diagnostics, treatment, and care. Navigators engage with people to ensure timely access to services and resources. While promising for older people with cancer, these programs are scarce in Europe, and research on their effectiveness and implementation is limited.

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Background: We developed the ACP+ intervention to support nursing home staff with implementation of advance care planning. While ACP+ was found to improve staff's self-efficacy, it did not change their knowledge about advance care planning.

Aim: To describe the level of implementation, mechanisms of impact, and contextual factors.

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Identification of older adults with Alzheimer's and related dementias among patients newly diagnosed with cancer: A comparison of methodological approaches.

J Geriatr Oncol

September 2024

Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, MA, United States of America; Division of Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.

Introduction: Research efforts to characterize and evaluate care delivery and outcomes for older adults with cancer and comorbid dementia are limited by varied methods used to classify Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The purpose of this study is to evaluate differences in demographic, clinical, and cancer characteristics of people newly diagnosed with cancer and concomitant dementia comparing two common methods to identify ADRD using administrative claims data.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare data.

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Objective: The objective of this review is to investigate what is known about culture-based prescribing to improve mental health and well-being.

Introduction: Culture-based prescribing, where a person is referred by a clinical professional to an arts or cultural activity aimed at improving mental health and well-being, is increasingly used as a community-based source of support. Although culture-based prescribing seems promising, the field is heterogeneous with respect to definition, underlying hypotheses, and cultural activity.

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Background: People with a severe mental illness (pSMI) often have comorbid physical health problems, resulting in a lower life expectancy compared to the global population. In Belgium, it remains unclear how to approach health disparities in pSMI in a community setting. This study explores the perspectives of both care professionals and patients on physical healthcare in Belgian community mental services, aiming to identify good practices, barriers and points of improvement.

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This study is preliminary to an experiment to be performed onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and on Earth to investigate how low gravity influences the healing of sutured human skin and vein wounds. Its objective was to ascertain whether these tissue explants could be maintained to be viable ex vivo for long periods of time, mimicking the experimental conditions onboard the ISS. We developed an automated tissue culture chamber, reproducing and monitoring the physiological tensile forces over time, and a culture medium enriched with serelaxin (60 ng/mL) and (Zn(PipNONO)Cl) (28 ng/mL), known to extend viability of explanted organs for transplantation.

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Emotion regulation is theorized to shape students' engagement in learning activities, but the specific pathways via which this occurs remain unclear. This study examined how emotion regulation mechanisms are related to behavioral and emotional engagement as well as relations with peers and teachers. The sample included 136 secondary school students (59,7% girls; M = 14.

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Research shows that care delivery regarding somatic health problems for patients with a severe mental illness (SMI) in community and mental health is difficult to establish. During the last decade, long term mental health outreach teams in Belgium were implemented to provide treatment and follow-up at home. This study aimed to map physical health status, care professionals, health related quality of life and global functioning in persons with SMI in Belgian long term outreach teams for mental health.

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Aims And Objectives: Gaining insight in how people living with chronic conditions experience primary healthcare within their informal network.

Background: The primary healthcare system is challenged by the increasing number of people living with chronic conditions. To strengthen chronic care management, literature and policy plans point to a person-centred approach of care (PCC).

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The effects of psychoactive substance abuse are not limited to the user, but extend to the entire family system, with children of substance abusers being particularly at risk. This meta-analysis attempted to quantify the longitudinal relationship between parental alcohol, tobacco, and drug use and child well-being, investigating variation across a range of substance and well-being indices and other potential moderators. We performed a literature search of peer-reviewed, English language, longitudinal observational studies that reported outcomes for children aged 0 to 18 years.

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