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The hypothesis to be tested is that arm B is tolerable and that the outcome in arm B is better than in arm A.
A proportion of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis with minimal disease activity can remain in a state of minimal disease activity with a lower dose of etanercept than the standard dose or even without etanercept.
Training clinicians in spiritual care based on the multidisciplinary guideline has a positive effect on caregivers competencies in spiritual care and on the spiritual wellbeing of palliative patients.
The addition of fluorescence imaging to the standard radio-guided procedure improves intraoperative sentinel node detection.
Pregnant women who receive the antenatal intervention 'WazzUp Mama' have lower levels of maternal distress and less scores above cut-off points of measurment scales for constructs of maternal distress in comparison to women who received…
There are no effective interventions to prevent dehydration of elderly people available. Therefeore the RPHS West-Brabant, together with the Gneral Practice de Keen, decided to develop and analyse the efffect of an education strategy. Besides that…
Hard-core smokers are smokers who have been smoking for many years and who do not intend to quit. This makes them vulnerable to disease and death. Since hard-core smokers are unlikely to quit smoking, before aiming at actually quitting, we first…
We hypothesize that daily oral administration of increasing dosages of Eubacterium hallii, an anaerobic intestinal bacterial strain, can exert beneficial effects on insulin sensitivity and liver fat.
In the Netherlands, case managers play an essential role in the care chain for people with dementia living in the community. Because the profession has just been started, there is a lack of evidence-based practice to provide treatment for agitation…
If not well treated rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can lead to severe joint damage and subsequently functional impairment. Current treatment strategies aim at quickly lowering disease activity in order to prevent later damage. RA treatment…
Teres Major muscle transfer group will show significant better improvement in active abduction and external rotation than the LD group after 1 year.
COPMI (Children of Parents with a Mental Illness) have an increased risk for developing problems themselves. A low IQ is an extra risk factor for developing psychosocial problems. By offering a support-group intervention for children with mild…
The ART approach is more suitable than conventional restorative treatment in people with disabilities
The integration of a pharmacist in the primary care, which has up to now not been studied in the Netherlands, could enable more efficient interventions to resolve drug therapy problems and help to build collaborative working relationships between…
Colorectal, prostate and breast cancer are among the most prevalent forms of cancer in the Netherlands. There is evidence that specific relational problems and impairment in sexual functioning are a prevalent complication of these cancer forms and…
In this study we will investigate whether the effects of physical activity on cognitive performance are present after short (10 minutes), medium (20 minutes) or longer (30 minutes) bouts of moderate exercise in order to establish the feasibility of…
There is accumulating evidence that prenatal maternal stress and anxiety may result in less optimal birth outcomes and has long-lasting adverse consequences on offspring’s development and behavior. Therefore, reducing maternal stress and anxiety…
Patients who receive treatment as usual (TAU) plus mentalization-based treatment for psychosis (MBT-P) will show a greater improvement in social functioning than patients who receive TAU only. This effect is mediated by an increase of social…
We expect that the decision aid will support patients in deciding about prostate cancer treatment by decreasing decisional conflict and regret. We also expect and an improvement of treatment satisfaction and health-related quality of life.