Publicaties
Patient and provider perspectives on how trust influences maternal vaccine acceptance among pregnant women in Kenya Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Background: Pregnant women and newborns are at high risk for infectious diseases. Altered immunity status during pregnancy and challenges fully vaccinating newborns contribute to this medical reality. Maternal immunization is a strategy to protect pregnant women and their newborns. This study aimed to find out how patient-provider relationships affect maternal vaccine uptake, particularly in the context of a lower middle- income country where ...
Initial responses of different health care professionals to various patients with headache Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: Somatizing patients are considered a challenge to health care professionals.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the responses of different health care professionals' to patients with headache with different presentations.
METHOD: Medical professionals (n = 77), clinical psychologists (n = 40), and psychology students (n = 115) were shown with four different manifestations of headache (neutral, ...
Service providers' experiences of disrespectful and abusive behavior towards women during facility based childbirth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: Disrespect and abuse (D&A) of women during childbirth by the attending staff in health facilities has been widely reported in many countries. Although D&A in labor rooms is recognized as a deterrent to maternal health service utilization, approaches to defining, classifying, and measuring D&A are still at an early stage of development. This study aims to enhance understanding of service providers' experiences of ...
Improving surgical informed consent in obstetric and gynaecologic surgeries in a teaching hospital in Ethiopia: a before and after study Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Objectives: Even though surgical informed consent (SIC) has marked benefits, in many settings the information is not provided appropriately. In Ethiopia, minimal attention is given to SIC. This study assesses whether an intervention designed to improve SIC in obstetric and gynaecologic surgeries is associated with receipt of SIC components.
Design: Pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys were conducted at Hawassa University ...
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services in Adama town, Ethiopia: clients' satisfaction and challenges experienced by service providers Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: The coverage and uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services has remained very low in Ethiopia. One of the pillars of improving quality of health services is measuring and addressing client satisfaction. In Ethiopia, information about the quality of PMTCT services regarding client satisfaction is meager.
METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional study using quantitative methods was ...
"Those who died are the ones that are cured". Walking the political tightrope of Nodding Syndrome in northern Uganda: emerging challenges for research and policy Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Background: Nodding Syndrome was first reported from Tanzania in the 1960s but appeared as an epidemic in Northern Uganda in the 1990s during the LRA civil war. It is characterized by repetitive head nodding, often followed by other types of seizures, developmental retardation and growth faltering with onset occurring in children aged 5-15 years. More than 50 years after the first reports, the aetiology remains unknown and there is still no ...
Factors associated with initiation of advance care planning in dementia: a systematic review Universiteit Gent Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The development and psychometric evaluation of the Mental Health Nurse-Sensitive Patient Outcome-Scale (MH-NURSE-POS) for inpatient psychiatric hospital settings Universiteit Gent
Orthodontics and its interactions with other dental disciplines Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Preservation or alteration of the natural dentition to an optimal state of health, function, comfort, and esthetics remains the primary goal of dentistry. However, referral of patients by general dentists to orthodontic specialists may be complex as it involves the interaction of the two dental professionals and the patient. Because there is a marked variation in referral rates between the dentists and many patients may be referred ...