Publicaties
Associations between childhood adversity, psychiatric symptoms, and self-esteem outcomes in adolescents and young adults: An experience sampling study KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: Self-esteem and self-esteem stability are important factors during adolescence and young adulthood that can be negatively impacted by childhood adversity and psychiatric symptoms. We examined whether childhood adversity and psychiatric symptoms are associated with decreased global self-esteem as well as increased self-esteem instability as measured with experience sampling method. In addition, we examined if childhood adversity ...
Stepwise development of a quality assessment instrument for the medicines' pathway in nursing homes KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: Quality of care in nursing homes (NHs), and especially the quality of the medicines' pathway, remains a concern. OBJECTIVES: To develop a quality assessment instrument to support NHs to evaluate the quality of their medicines' pathway, and to formulate recommendations for its implementation. METHODS: A stepwise approach was used. First, a performance questionnaire for coordinating physicians, pharmacists and head nurses was ...
Viewpoint: Psychiatrists and other medical professionals in Belgium show a substantial lack of knowledge about poverty KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
The bidirectional relationship between poverty and poor physical and mental health is well-known. All physicians should have sufficient knowledge on poverty as a social determinant and its impact on (mental) health. The knowledge of poverty in physicians is seldom investigated. An online and paper survey was circulated in March/April 2022 in Belgium, to assess physician's opinions about and attitudes toward patients in poverty. Not only was ...
Sustainability in Flemish and Dutch mental health care KU Leuven
Background: The Flemish and Dutch (mental) health sectors cause greenhouse gas emissions and therefore will have to make an effort to reduce their climate impact. Aim: To assess whether differences can be found in the climate policies of Flemish and Dutch mental health institutions. Method: Descriptive research based on a sustainability questionnaire, in which concrete actions, objectives and ambitions in the field of sustainability were ...
Coping and sleep quality in youth: An Experience Sampling study KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
INTRODUCTION: Sleep quality is closely linked with mental health. Two factors that influence sleep are coping style and locus of control, yet these have not been investigated in daily life. In this study, we examined associations between coping styles and sleep quality in daily life and the potential mediating effect of daily locus of control in a sample of youth, a group particularly vulnerable to developing psychopathology. METHODS: Three ...
Due Care in the Context of Euthanasia Requests by Persons with Psychiatric Illness: Lessons from a Recent Criminal Trial in Belgium KU Leuven
Belgium is one of very few countries where euthanasia on the basis of psychiatric illness is legally possible. Three physicians involved in the euthanasia of a 38-year-old woman suffering from psychiatric illness recently faced a criminal trial for “murder by poisoning”, for allegedly having failed to comply with several requirements of the Belgian Euthanasia Law. Although none of the physicians were convicted, the case generated extensive ...