Conversation in preventive health care: needs assessment and tool development

Aim Conversation between Child Healthcare Professionals (CHPs) and parents and adolescents plays an important role in the quality and success of preventive health care delivery. However, there is no practice guideline on conversation. This study aimed to study 1) the needs of parents, adolescents, and Child Healthcare professionals regarding...

The effect of an organizational level participatory intervention in secondary vocational education on work-related health outcomes: results of a controlled trial

Background. Work-related stress is highly prevalent in the educational sector. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an organizational level, participatory intervention on need for recovery and vitality in educational workers. It was hypothesized that the intervention would decrease need for recovery and increase...

Evaluating the implementation process of a participatory organizational level occupational health intervention in schools

Background The importance of process evaluations in examining how and why interventions are (un) successful is increasingly recognized. Process evaluations mainly studied the implementation process and the quality of the implementation (fidelity). However, in adopting this approach for participatory organizational level occupational health...

Using Intervention Mapping for a Needs Assessment on Preconception Care in Suriname: The Perisur Project

Background: Every year approximately 10,000 babies are born in Suriname of which an estimated 400 die in the perinatal period. The main purpose of the Perisur project is to improve perinatal outcomes and improve under-five and maternal health. This study focused on introducing preconception care in Suriname. Methods: Intervention Mapping was...

Community-based Comprehensive Recovery: Closing collaboration gaps in urban disaster recovery

Disaster recovery in urban environments is a complex process. Because of high population densities and the presence of many societal and infrastructural dependencies, urban areas are prone to severe loss of self-reliance in case of a disaster. Rebuilding such areas to a self-sustaining state is a daunting task, and requires a high degree of...

Are there differences in oral health and oral health behavior between individuals with high and low dental fear?

Epidemiological studies of the relationship between dental fear, use of dental services, and oral health in different age groups in a common population are scarce. Dental fear and its relationships are usually described in individuals with high dental fear only. The purposes of this study were to describe the prevalence of dental fear in the...

Prevalence of passive smoking in infancy in the Netherlands

The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence of passive smoking in infancy. This was done by self-report questionnaires completed by parents who attended the well-baby clinic in the period February-May 1996. A total of 2720 questionnaires were spread among parents with babies between 1 and 14 months: smoking and non-smoking parents....

The impact of response bias on estimates of health care utilization in a metropolitan area: The use of administrative data

Background. Surveys among the general population are an important method for collecting epidemiological data on health and utilization of health care in that population. Selective non-response may affect the validity of these data. This study examines the impact of response bias on estimates of health care utilization and on risk estimates for...