4 results match your criteria: "the Netherlands. Electronic address: h.vanmiddendorp@fsw.leidenuniv.nl.[Affiliation]"
Conditioning cortisol in healthy young women - A randomized controlled trial.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
February 2021
Heath Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
Background: Learned placebo effects induced by pharmacological conditioning affect immune and endocrine outcomes and may offer new possibilities for clinical applications. Whether or not cortisol is subject to this type of associative learning processes, and whether conditioning may affect responses to stress, is currently unclear.
Method: A randomized placebo-controlled trial was conducted in 48 healthy young women.
Predicting health-related quality of life in dialysis patients: Factors related to negative outcome expectancies and social support.
Patient Educ Couns
June 2021
Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
Objectives: Dialysis patients report a low health-related quality of life (HRQOL) due to high disease burden and far-reaching consequences of dialysis treatment. This study examined several cognitive-behavioral and social factors, with a focus on negative outcome expectancies, that might be relevant for HRQOL in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients treated with dialysis.
Methods: Patients treated with hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis were recruited from Dutch hospitals and dialysis centers.
The role of psychological factors in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: From burden to tailored treatment.
Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol
October 2016
Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University & Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
Inflammatory rheumatic diseases have a long-lasting effect on patients' physical and psychological functioning, for instance, due to disabling symptoms and unpredictable disease course. Consequently, many patients show adjustment problems such as depressed mood, which in turn can negatively influence their disease outcome. Specific biopsychosocial factors have shown to affect this outcome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence and relevance of Type D personality in fibromyalgia.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
January 2017
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
Objective: Distressed (Type D) personality, combining high negative affectivity and social inhibition, is linked to poor health in various populations. Because patients with fibromyalgia experience high negative affect and show signs of social inhibition, this study aimed to examine the prevalence of Type D's components and their associations with health in an additive (worse health with both components present) or synergistic way (components amplifying each other's effects).
Method: Type D personality and physical and mental health were assessed online by 558 patients with self-reported fibromyalgia (94% women, age 47 ± 11 (21-77)years) by the Type D Scale-14 and RAND-36 Health Status Inventory.