Interaction styles of health care professionals supporting patients with chronic conditions in general hospitals towards...
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The curious case of "trust" in the light of changing doctor-patient relationships.
Published in Bioethics
The centrality of trust in traditional doctor-patient relationships has been criticized as inordinately paternalistic, yet in today's discussions about medical ethics-mostly in response to disruptive innovation in healthcare-trust reappears as an asset to enable empowerment. To turn away from paternalistic trust-based doctor-patient relationships a...
The Role of Communication Style and External Motivators in Predicting Vaccination Experiences and Intentions: An Experim...
Published in Health communication
This vignette-based study examined in a sample of unvaccinated Belgian citizens (N = 1918; Mage = 45.99) how health care workers could foster reflection about and intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by experimentally varying their communication style (i.e., autonomy-supportive vs. controlling) and the reference to external motivators (i.e...
Moving from 'fully' to 'appropriately' informed consent in genomics: The PROMICE framework
Genomic sequencing technologies (GS) pose novel challenges not seen in older genetic technologies, making traditional standards for fully informed consent difficult or impossible to meet. This is due to factors including the complexity of the test and the broad range of results it may identify. Meaningful informed consent is even more challenging t...
‘When I need them, I call them and they will be there for me’ : experiences of independently living people with intellec...
eHealth applications are increasingly being used in services for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). DigiContact is an online support service that uses videoconferencing techniques to enable people with ID to contact a team of specially trained support workers 24/7. In this qualitative and participatory study we aimed to explore the experie...
Performance governance and management in higher education revisited : international developments and perspectives
The article identifies current trends with respect to the governance and management of institutional performance in higher education institutions and discusses how recent developments in this area can be interpreted. It is argued that performance governance is changing with respect to the way performances are documented, measured and disseminated. ...
Rationale, design and methodology of APPROACH-IS II : international study of patient-reported outcomes and frailty pheno...
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Background: In recent years, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) have received increasing prominence in cardio-vascular research and clinical care. An understanding of the variability and global experience of PROs in adults with congenital heart disease (CHD), however, is still lacking. Moreover, information on epidemiological characteristics and the ...
Supporting independently living people with intellectual disabilities : a qualitative study into professional remote sup...
Background Professional support for people with intellectual disabilities is increasingly delivered remotely. Understanding what support workers do to support people with intellectual disabilities remotely, and how they do this, is therefore important. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the remote support practice of the support sta...
Basic Psychological Needs in the Work Context: A Systematic Literature Review of Diary Studies
According to the self-determination theory, individuals' basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness should be satisfied for optimal psychological growth. The satisfaction of these needs seems to vary due to changes in a person's social context, and the outcomes of the satisfaction of these needs also vary along with the nee...
Daily ups and downs in adolescents' depressive symptoms: The role of daily self-criticism, dependency and basic psycholo...
INTRODUCTION: Although associations between Blatt's personality dimensions of self-criticism and dependency and adolescents' depressive symptoms are well-established, only few studies have examined associations between these variables at the level of daily, within-person fluctuations. Moreover, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this pe...
