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The primary objective is to study the effects of the inflammatory response to a surgical procedure on postoperative cognitive decline in elderly cancer patients and to compare this to the effects of the inflammatory response on postoperative…
This study tries to operationialize the construct of resiliency in young refugees and studies its significance in coping with the sometimes very serious consequences of war and migration from a psychological overarching framework. The project aims…
Primairy objective: To investigate whether the sympathetic stimulation of BAT, as assessed with a MIBG SPECT-CT scan, differs between young and elderly subjects.Secondary Objectives: 1) To investigate whether the slope of the correlation between…
The aim of the current proposal is to compare the (cost)effectiveness of a 12-month multidimensional lifestyle approach for SMI outpatients to usual care to reduce cardiometabolic risk factors in SMI patients. Secondary research questions include…
To investigate the effectiveness of family meetings on indicated prevention of anxiety and depressive disorders (DSM IV) and symptom levels of primary family caregivers of patients with dementia. To perform an economic evaluation alongside the trial…
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Social and emotional functioning of hearing impaired children, in the agegroup between 9 and 15 years old.
The ex-prematures have reached the age of 27. How do they cope with the demands and responsibilities of life compared to their peers. Did their health status change? Did new problems arise? Did they get their degree and how does their career develop…
To investigate whether emotional arousal impairs facial emotion recognition in BPD patients and how specific borderline symptomatology is related with this.
The project proposes to study 12-month victimization rates and risk factors among persons with severe mental illness (SMI). The results will be compared with a matched sample from the general population. Additionally, we will develop a preliminary…
The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of Assertive outreach care in Preventive Child Healthcare. The research question is: what are the effects of this intervention (delivered as stipulated in the intervention guide) in an…
Study question and objective At this stage of developement of the multicomponent is intervention it is unclear whether the intervention is feasible in practice. Therefore the question: Is this multicomponent preadmission intervention feasible in…
- define and validate indexes, based on body acceleration, related with quality of movement and quality of sleep for daily life monitoring,- cross-sectional study of relations of these indexes with age,- longitudinal study of the effect of physical…
To test The Selection Failure hypothesis by assessing A) the degree of embryo invasiveness and decidual acceptance (the quality of decidualization, endometrium-embryo communication and endometrial stromal cell (ESC) migration) and B) the angiogeneic…
The aim of the study is to gain more insight in the physiological mechanisms that are involved in child abuse.
To assess the effect of fitness training on movement efficiency, fitness level, physical activity and quality of sleep in ageing subjects
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between hearing impairment and various aspects of live, such as work, psychosocial health, quality of life and use of health care. The results will yield more insight into the role of hearing loss…
Main objectives are first; to explore the reversibility of restrictions and the importance-participation gaps when AS patients with a high disease activity are treated with anti-TNF-α (adalimumab). Second, to explore the effect of anti-TNF-α (…
The primary objective of the study is to determine whether exercise training exerts a long term effect on maximal exercise capacity, clinical events, sports participation, serum NT-proBNP and quality of life in adults with a systemic right ventricle…
The current study aims to fill some of this gap by comparing family functioning in young people with MUPS to family functioning in young people with medically explained physical complaints and healthy young adolescents. Other family factors that are…