Group Care in the first 1000 days: implementation and process evaluation of contextually adapted antenatal and postnatal group care targeting diverse vulnerable populations in high-, middle- and low-resource settings

Background: Group care (GC) improves the quality of maternity care, stimulates women’s participation in their own care and facilitates growth of women’s social support networks. There is an urgent need to identify and disseminate the best mechanisms for implementing GC in ways that are feasible, context appropriate and sustainable. This protocol...

Effects of an SEL Program in a Diverse Population of Low Achieving Secondary Education Students

Adolescents’ social-emotional skills are associated with positive outcomes in psychosocial health and success in education and work. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of Skills4Life, a Social Emotional Learning program for preparatory vocational secondary education aimed at enhancing self-awareness, social awareness, self-management,...

Decision-making, barriers, and facilitators regarding cervical cancer screening participation among Turkish and Moroccan women in the Netherlands: a focus group study

Objectives: Whether the lower Dutch cervical cancer (CC) screening participation of Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women is based on informed decision-making is unknown. Our aim was to explore how and why Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women decide to participate or not in the current Dutch CC screening programme as well as to learn their perceptions...

Care use and its intensity in children with complex problems are related to varying child and family factors: A follow-up study

Background. There is little evidence on the child and family factors that affect the intensity of care use by children with complex problems. We therefore wished to identify changes in these factors associated with changes in care service use and its intensity, for care use in general and psychosocial care in particular. Methods. Parents of 272...

Do universal social and emotional learning programs for secondary school students enhance the competencies they address? A systematic review

Improving access to school health services as perceived by school professionals

Background The organisation of health assessments by preventive health services focusing on children’s health and educational performance needs to be improved due to evolving health priorities such as mental health problems, reduced budgets and shortages of physicians and nurses. We studied the impact on the school professionals’ perception of...

Welke factoren bepalen de implementatie van een lokale integrale aanpak van overgewicht bij kinderen?

In Nederland zijn al vele initiatieven ontwikkeld om overgewicht onder kinderen terug te dringen. De implementatie van dergelijke interventies gaat echter niet vanzelf; zeker niet in het geval van een integrale aanpak die om een bijdrage vraagt van meerdere sectoren en professionals. Om inzicht te krijgen in factoren die bepalend zijn voor het...

Parent Training Programs for Ethnic Minorities: a Meta-analysis of Adaptations and Effect

This meta-analysis focuses on parent training programs for ethnic minority families and reports on (i) the adaptation of program content and (ii) the process that informs these adaptations. Relevant studies are reviewed to determine the adaptations made and the impact of the adaptations on parenting and child outcomes. Studies were eligible for...

Critical stakeholder determinants to the implementation of intersectoral community approaches targeting childhood obesity

Several intersectoral community approaches targeting childhood obesity (IACOs) have been launched in the Netherlands. Translation of these approaches into practice is however arduous and implementation. We therefore studied the implementation of five IACOs in the Netherlands for one-and-a-half years. IACO implementation was evaluated via an...

Unravelling the factors decisive to the implementation of EPODE-derived community approaches targeting childhood obesity: a longitudinal, multiple case study

BACKGROUND: Implementation of intersectoral community approaches often fails due to a translational gap between the approach as intended and the approach as implemented in practice. Knowledge about the implementation determinants of such approaches is needed to facilitate future implementation processes. METHODS: The implementation of five EPODE...

Implementation of intersectoral community approaches targeting childhood obesity: A systematic review

The implementation of intersectoral community approaches targeting childhood obesity (IACO) is considered challenging. To help overcome these challenges, an overview of the evidence to date is needed. We searched four databases to identify papers that reported on the determinants of successful implementation of IACOs, resulting in the inclusion...

A stitch in time saves nine? A repeated cross-sectional case study on the implementation of the intersectoral community approach Youth At a Healthy Weight

Background The implementation of programs complex in design, such as the intersectoral community approach Youth At a Healthy Weight (JOGG), often deviates from their application as intended. There is limited knowledge of their implementation processes, making it difficult to formulate sound implementation strategies. Methods For two years, we...

Infertility care in the Netherlands for Turkish and Moroccan migrants: the role of religion in focus

Infertility treatments are difficult to understand, and doubly so for migrants because of religious and language factors. Previous studies showed that religion plays an important role in infertility care for Muslim couples that doctors do not always understand. The data presented here come from two exploratory studies that aimed to identify the...

The lower prevalence of female genital mutilation in the Netherlands: A nationwide study in Dutch midwifery practices

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM) in women giving birth in 2008 in the Netherlands. Method: A retrospective questionnaire study was conducted.The study covered all 513 midwifery practices in the Netherlands. The data were analysed with SPSS 17.0. Results: The response from midwifery practices was 93%(n =...