Achtergrond: Aspecifieke nekpijn is de op drie na meest voorkomende musculoskeletale klacht ter wereld. In de fysiotherapie is ruim 11% van de totale fysiotherapieconsumptie door patiënten met aspecifieke nekpijn. Er wordt verwacht dat er een toename zal zijn van de prevalentie voor nekpijn in de komende …

Injuries can have a major impact on the physical performance and academic career of physical education teacher education (PETE) students. To investigate the injury problem, risk factors, and the impact of injuries on academic success, 252 PETE students were followed during their first semester. Risk …

BACKGROUND: A lack of physical activity is considered to cause 6% of deaths globally. Feedback from wearables such as activity trackers has the potential to encourage daily physical activity. To date, little research is available on the natural development of adherence to activity trackers or on potential …

Objective The evaluation of voice quality is a major component of voice assessment. The aim of the present study was to develop a new multivariate acoustic model for the evaluation of breathiness. Method Concatenated voice samples of continuous speech and the sustained vowel [a:] from 970 subjects …

The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the effect of visual feedback on rating voice quality severity level and the reliability of voice quality judgment by inexperienced listeners. For this purpose two training programs were created, each lasting 2 hours. In total 37 undergraduate speech–language …

This study offers an overview of the natural development of the use of an activity tracker, as well as the relative importance of a range of determinants from literature. Decay is exponential but slower than may be expected from existing literature. Many factors have a small contribution to sustained …

Dit is een onderzoek naar het werken met onderzoeksvragen van de leerlingen tijdens projectwerk. Het team heeft handreikingen nodig hoe dit juist en gestructureerd aan te pakken. Centraal in dit onderzoek staat de vraag wat leerkrachten nodig hebben om leerlingen tijdens het projectwerk te begeleiden …

De Hanzehogeschool Groningen heeft belangstelling voor een methodiek voor het bepalen van demate van praktijkgereedheid van haar praktijkgericht onderzoek. Een praktijkgericht onderzoek heeft als doel om nieuwe kennis te ontwikkelen die een bijdrage kan leveren aan de beroepspraktijk. Praktijkgerichte …

Objectives: To identify determinants of the initial employment of physician assistants (PAs) for inpatient care as well as of the sustainability of their employment. Design: We conducted a qualitative study with semistructured interviews with care providers. Interviews continued until data saturation …

The aim of this study is to investigate the predictive value of landing stability and technique to gain insight into risk factors for ankle and knee injuries in indoor team sport players. Seventyfive male and female basketball, volleyball or korfball players were screened by measuring landing stability …