BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Loneliness is prevalent among older adults and known to be detrimental to mental health. The objective of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Chinese 6-item De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (DJGLS) in the older native and diasporic Chinese community. …

Objective The first objective was to assess the psychometric properties of the 92-item Dutch Naming Test (DNT-92), developed to assess word finding difficulties in people with aphasia, using Item Response Theory (IRT). The second objective was to select suitable items for a short version with a discriminative …

Background: The proportion of frail older adults is increasing and is expected to further increase in the coming years, both globally and in the Dutch population. This poses a great challenge to public health. To determine the prevalence of frailty in a population, a frailty index (FI) is recommended. …

Frailty in older adults is an increasing burden for public health, both globally as well as in The Netherlands. To focus on frailty prevention from a public health perspective, a clear understanding of frailty prevalence is needed.

OBJECTIVE: Language development is important for children's success in life. Therefore, language is monitored by child health care professionals and parents, but a uniform set of milestones in language development is lacking. Our aim was to identify a set of clear and distinctive milestones that empirically …

Measuring family caregivers’ experiences of collaboration with nurses is important in the context of health care reforms that advocate an increased role of families in care. The Family Collaboration Scale (FCS) measures collaboration between nurses and family caregivers, however, the scale has a broad …

Differentiëren en aansluiten bij de leerling wordt in het huidige onderwijs steeds belangrijker. Hier wil A-VISION, onderwijsadvies bureau te Apeldoorn, op inspelen. Dit willen ze realiseren met de, door hun voor groep 8 ontwikkelde, Adaptieve Digitale Intelligentietest (ADIT). Om de ADIT breder inzetbaar …

Spraak-,taalproblemen zijn de meest voorkomende ontwikkelingsproblemen bij jonge kinderen. De prevalentie van taalontwikkelingsstoornis (TOS) wordt geschat op 7% en van taalachterstanden oplopend tot 19% van de kinderen. Het signaleren van kinderen met problemen in de spraak-,taalontwikkeling gebeurt …

Objectives To assess the content validity and psychometric characteristics of the Knowledge about Older Patients Quiz (KOP‐Q), which measures nurses' knowledge regarding older hospitalized adults and their certainty regarding this knowledge. Design Cross‐sectional. Setting Content validity: …