Arbeidsparticipatie en werkgerelateerde handicaps bij jongvolwassenen met een aangeboren hartafwijking [Employment and work-related handicaps in young adults with congenital heart disease]

Objective. To evaluate employment, career problems and job-related handicaps in adults with complex or mild congenital heart disease (CHD). Design. Cross-sectional. Method. Data were obtained from 76 patients with complex and 80 with mild CHD who were known to the Department of Paediatric Cardiology at the Leiden University Medical Center, the...

Individual and Group Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Work-Related Stress Complaints and Sickness Absence: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Work-related stress is widespread and can lead to long-term absenteeism and work disability. Cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) has demonstrated effectiveness in treating psychopathology but has only rarely been tested in clinical samples with work-related stress. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the efficacy of CBT...

Triage in preventive child healthcare: a prospective cohort study of care use and referral rates for children at risk

Objectives A novel triage approach to routine assessments was introduced to improve the efficiency of Preventive Child Healthcare (PCH): PCH assistants carried out pre-assessments of all children and sent the children with suspected health problems to follow-up assessments conducted by a physician or nurse. This two-step approach differed from...