Purpose: This research aimed to explore factors associated with patient-reported breast and abdominal scar quality after deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction (BR). Material and Methods: This study was designed as a descriptive cross-sectional survey in which women after …

"Gettingyour lifebackontrackaftercommittingacrime ischallenging. During probation supervision, probation officers build andmaintain intensive and often long-term partnerships with probationers to prevent relapse into delinquent behavior. This thesis reveals an important success factor of probation supervision. …

Tijdens een reclasseringstraject houdt een reclasseringswerker toezicht op iemand die een delicht heeft gepleegd. Het doel is die persoon te motiveren een leven op te bouwen zonder criminaliteit.Er is echter nog weinig bekend over de band tussen reclasseringswerker en cliënt en de invloed ervan op het …

"Despite many efforts, people with a refugee background still have great difficulties to find a job on the Dutch labour market. This has adverse consequences for the economic independence of people with a refugee background, their social connections, personal development, health and general well-being, …

"Binnen en buiten detentie zijn verschillende actoren actief om de gedetineerde te helpen bij re-integratie in de samenleving. Zij werken relatief los van elkaar. Reclassering is in het voortraject actief, in het kader van advisering en als er toezicht is opgelegd in het na-traject. In detentie gaan …

De rol van het personeel in penitentiaire inrichtingen (PI) is de laatste decennia drastisch gewijzigd. Waar voorheen het waarborgen van veiligheid voorop stond, is er gaandeweg – mede door een veranderende populatie – meer aandacht gekomen voor zorgaspecten in het werk van inrichtingswerkers. Werken …

"A proportion of those with eating disorders have also experienced traumatic events and ongoing symptoms of PTSD such as re-experiencing of the trauma and nightmares. We implemented an innovative trauma intervention called Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) to explore whether for those undergoing inpatient treatment …

Objectives Adherence to injury prevention programmes in football remains low, which is thought to drastically reduce the effects of injury prevention programmes. Reasons why (medical) staff and players implement injury prevention programmes, have been investigated, but player’s characteristics and perceptions …

Blog post where the author speaks about his recently published article "Adherence to an injury prevention program in male amateur football players is affected by players’ age, experience and perceptions"

Introduction: Nowadays the Western mental health system is in transformation to recovery-oriented and trauma informed care in which experiential knowledge becomes incorporated. An important development in this context is that traditional mental health professionals came to the fore with their lived experiences. …