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We hypothesize that a smoking cessation strategy for smoking cervical cancer screening participants will increase their motivation to quit and will lead to an increased proportion of smokers performing a serious quit attempt. Eventually this will…
Primary Objective: To measure cortical spreading depression with full-band EEG during the migraine attack at patients aged 4 years or older. Secondary Objective(s): -To explore (additional) signal analysis techniques for detecting CSDs or infra slow…
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…
Primary objective: To assess the influence of the addition of rinsing with a 0.05% chlorhexidine-containing solution to usual daily oral hygiene care on the incidence of pneumonia in physically-impaired care home residents with dysphagia.Secondary…
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 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…
The overall objective of the study is to quantify age-related changes in biomechanics and neural control of hand motor control and finger independence. Therefore, we will determine the finger interdependency during various finger tasks in terms of…
This health care evaluation study will compare the ZPH with other, usual forms of care given to frail elderly in the hospital. It will also evaluate the added value of a centre for prevention and recovery (Centrum voor Preventie en Herstel, CPH)
- 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 assess the effect of fitness training on movement efficiency, fitness level, physical activity and quality of sleep in ageing subjects
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a newly developed interdisciplinary tailor-made social fitness programme on the participation in meaningful social activities of community-dwelling older people with dementia and…
Social and emotional functioning of hearing impaired children, in the agegroup between 9 and 15 years old.
The objectives of the study are:Developing an experimental design to obtain empirical data about the effects of a drama intervention on anxiety and mood disorders of adolescents.
-To test the efficacy and determine the costs of a multifaceted intervention program to reduce falls incidence rate and fear of falling, and thereby improve mental wellbeing in community dwelling frail elders, with high level of comorbidity and…
Effects will be evaluated in a randomized controlled design. First, the effects of OpKoers on social-emotional outcomes will be compared with a control group. Secondly, the additionalvalue of Samen Sterk will be investigated in relation to both…
Primary question: What are the riskfacors of VT in the older population?Secondary questions: What is the frequence and seriousness of the PTS in the elderly and which impact has the VT on the QOL and the functionality of this group.
Determine the effectiveness of Triple P, level 3, in Dutch PCH.
The overall aim of the CASA trial is to investigate the role of PLD as adjuvantchemotherapy for older postmenopausal women for whom chemotherapy is indicated, but standard regimens, derived from trials in younger women, are assumed to be too toxic…
The primary objective of this study is to assess the association between pre-dialysis comprehensive geriatric assessment and early death or withdrawal from dialysis (<6 months) in patients aged over 65 years
The primary objective of the present study is to examine the orthotic and therapeutic effect of the ironHand (iH) system, consisting of both an assistive and therapeutic module, by elderly and diagnosed patients with hand function problems, after…