The present study focuses on the dyadic relationship between a family carer and a patient. Besides clarifying the quality of the caregiving relationship in two populations of chronically ill patients, this investigation examines whether patient ch...
Auteurs:Nele Spruytte, Chantal Van Audenhove, Frans Lammertyn en Gert Storms
A couple of years ago, the Belgian Federal Ministry of Health decided to back the development of a basic conceptual model for Electronic Patient Record (EPR) in primary care. Using consensus and modeling relational techniques, a working group of e...
Auteurs:E De Clercq, P Piette, J Strobbe, M Roland, A Vandenberghe, J Steenackers en L Pas
In België zijn wel cijfers beschikbaar over het aantal personen met psychische gezondheidsproblemen (31% van de bevolking van 15 jaar en ouder), maar niet over het aantal ernstig en langdurig psychisch zieken. Nochtans zijn gegevens hierover van b...
Auteurs:Katleen De Rick, Chantal Van Audenhove en Frans Lammertyn
This article reports on a search looking for the number of institutionalised migrants suffering from dementia in Flanders. A growing number of migrants living in Flanders reaches the age where the prevalence of dementia is no longer negligible. In...
Auteurs:Liesbet Dewallef, L Pang, Jan De Lepeleire, Michel Ylieff, Ovide Fontaine, Johan Leman en Frank Buntinx
Auteurs:D Bauduin, A McCulloch, A Liégeois, J van Weeghel, Chantal Van Audenhove, M Muijen, T Garanis-Papadatos, D Ploumbidis, Michele Colucci en B Norcio
Intravenous drug use is a major route of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission. In Belgium, more than 70% of the intravenous drug users (IVDUs) are HCV seropositive. In the past, medical treatment of HCV-positive IVDUs has been controversial. Howev...
Auteurs:Geert Robaeys, Cathy Matheï, Frank Buntinx en Marc Van Ranst
Objectives: To determine in depth the added value, the disadvantage and/or benefit of a home visit versusan office encounter and to study the factors which determine the request and performance of home visits. Method: Focus group research was cond...
Aims: Measurement of electrocardiographic intervals to assess dispersion in ventricular repolarization may be helpful in the assessment of the risk of ventricular arrhythmia. We measured QTc, QT dispersion, and T wave intervals in premature infant...
Auteurs:A Benatar, Filip Cools, T Decraene, A Bougatef en Y Vandenplas
This study aimed to examine: 1) the prevalence of sexual problems in women with type 1 diabetes; 2) the comparison of this prevalence rate with that of an age-matched control group; 3) the influence of diabetes related somatic factors on female se...
Auteurs:Paul Enzlin, Chantal Mathieu, Ann Van Den Bruel, Jan Bosteels, Dirk Vanderschueren en Koen Demyttenaere
Epidemiologisch onderzoek bij, soms ten dele, dementerende bejaarden stelt eigen, specifieke problemen, verschillend van deze van een interventieonderzoek bij bejaarden of van epidemiologisch onderzoek bij jongere mensen. Op basis van een theoreti...