Centre of Expertise Urban Vitality
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Nutritional and exercise interventions in individuals with sarcopenic obesity around retirement age: a systematic review and meta-analysis
1 February 2024 | Urban Vitality<b>Context</b><br/>Retirement is an opportune time for people to establish new healthy routines. Exercise and nutritional interventions are promising in the prevention and treatment of sarcopenic ...
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Airway Mucus in Invasively Ventilated Critically Ill Patients
1 September 2023 | Urban VitalityPatients who are critically ill and receiving invasivemechanical ventilation are at increased risk for accumula-tion of secretions in the lower airways. Such accumula-tion of airway mucus can induce atelectasis and ...
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International multi-stakeholder consensus statement on clinical trial integrity
1 August 2023 | Urban Vitality<p>Objective: To prepare a set of statements for randomised clinical trials (RCT) integrity through an international multi-stakeholder consensus. Methods: The consensus was developed via: multi-country ...
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Minerals and Sarcopenia in Older Adults: An Updated Systematic Review
1 August 2023 | Urban VitalityThis systematic review aims to reevaluate the role of minerals on muscle mass, muscle strength, physical performance, and the prevalence of sarcopenia in community-dwelling and institutionalized older adults. ...
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A multidisciplinary lifestyle program for rheumatoid arthritis: the 'Plants for Joints' randomized controlled trial
1 August 2023 | Urban Vitality<b>Objective</b><br/>To determine the effect of a multidisciplinary lifestyle program in patients with RA with low–moderate disease ...
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Perspectives of Rehabilitation Professionals on Implementing a Validated Home Telerehabilitation Intervention for Older Adults in Geriatric Rehabilitation
18 July 2023 | Urban VitalityOwing to demographic trends and increasing health care costs, quick discharge with geriatric rehabilitation at home is advised and recommended for older adults. Telerehabilitation has been identified as a ...
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Connecting physical education lessons and urban sports facilities in the urban space surrounding schools
16 June 2023 | Urban Vitality<b>Purpose</b>: Adolescents are insufficiently physically active and spent too much time sitting, which provides a health risk. In the current study the municipality of Amsterdam, secondary schools, ...
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Airway care interventions and prone positioning in critically ill patients
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Exploring barriers and facilitators of behavioural changes in dietary intake and physical activity
1 June 2023 | Urban VitalityThe majority of older patients, scheduled for a cardiac procedure, do not adhere to international dietary intake and physical activity guidelines. The purpose of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators ...
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Optimization of protocols using neuromuscular electrical stimulation for paralyzed lower-limb muscles to increase energy expenditure in people with spinal cord injury
1 June 2023 | Urban VitalityOBJECTIVE: To evaluate if using surface neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) for paralyzed lower-limb muscles results in an increase in energy expenditure and if the number of activated muscles and duty cycle ...
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Nutrition and exercise Interventions to Improve body composition for persons with overweight or obesity near retirement age
1 May 2023 | Urban VitalityThe retirement phase is an opportunity to integrate healthy (nutrition/exercise) habits into daily life. We conducted this systematic review to assess which nutrition and exercise interventions most effectively ...
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Patient experiences of, and preferences for, surgical wound care education
1 May 2023 | Urban VitalityThe aim of this study was to describe patients' experiences of, and preferences for, surgical wound care discharge education and how these experiences predicted their ability to self-manage their surgical wounds. A ...
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Towards a core-set of mobility measures in ageing research
6 April 2023 | Urban VitalityMobility is a key determinant and outcome of healthy ageing but its definition, conceptual framework and underlying constructs within the physical domain may need clarification for data comparison and sharing in ...
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Effectiveness of psychosomatic therapy for patients with persistent somatic symptoms: Results from the CORPUS randomised controlled trial in primary care
1 April 2023 | Urban VitalityEffectiveness of psychosomatic therapy for patients with persistent somatic symptoms: Results from the CORPUS randomised controlled trial in primary care
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Participation-related constructs and participation of children with additional support needs in schools
1 April 2023 | Urban VitalityTo investigate associations between participation-related constructs and participation frequency and involvement in inclusive schools.
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The quality of geriatric rehabilitation from the patients’ perspective: a scoping review
1 March 2023 | Urban VitalityThe efficacy and outcomes of geriatric rehabilitation (GR) have previously been investigated. However, a systematic synthesis of the aspects that are important to patients regarding the quality of GR does not exist.
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Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Properties of Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context (WRITIC)
1 March 2023 | Urban VitalityThis article describes the translation and cultural adaptation process of the WRITIC (Writing Readiness Inventory Tool in Context) into European Portuguese. We examined the content and convergent validity, ...
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‘New’ Dutch Civic Integration: learning ‘Spontaneous Compliance’ to address inherent difference
20 February 2023 | Urban VitalityIn January 2022 the new Dutch Civic Integration programme was launched together with promises of improvements it would bring in facilitating the ‘integration’ of newcomers to the Netherlands. This study ...
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Exploring experiences with stressors and coping resources among Dutch socioeconomic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic
1 February 2023 | Urban Vitality<p>The COVID-19 crisis impacts populations globally. This impact seems to differ for groups with low- and high-socioeconomic status (SES). We conducted a qualitative study in the Netherlands using a salutogenic ...
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Activating Relatives to Get Involved in Care After Surgery: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study
1 January 2023 | Urban VitalityBackground:<br/>Postoperative complications and readmissions to hospital are factors known to negatively influence the short- and long-term quality of life of patients with gastrointestinal cancer. Active ...
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Feasibility of home-based cardiac rehabilitation in frail older patients: a clinical perspective
1 January 2023 | Urban Vitality<p>(A) BACKGROUND: Home-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an attractive alternative for frail older patients who are unable to participate in hospital-based CR. Yet, the feasibility of home-based CR provided ...
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Effect and process evaluation of a preschool-based intervention to promote an early childhood education and care teacher-parent partnership about healthy behaviours in children: Study protocol for the cluster randomised controlled trial CO-HEALTHY
1 January 2023 | Urban VitalityBackground<br/>Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) teachers at urban preschools are potential key figures to promote healthy behaviours in disadvantaged young children and to engage parents in ...
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Nocturnal Hemodialysis Leads to Improvement in Physical Performance in Comparison with Conventional Hemodialysis
1 January 2023 | Urban Vitality<p>End-stage kidney disease patients treated with conventional hemodialysis (CHD) are known to have impaired physical performance and protein-energy wasting (PEW). Nocturnal hemodialysis (NHD) was shown to ...
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Ready for handwriting? A reference data study on handwriting readiness assessments
1 January 2023 | Urban VitalityEarly evaluation of writing readiness is essential to predict and prevent handwriting difficulties and its negative influences on school occupations. An occupation-based measurement for kindergarten children has been ...
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Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation for invasively ventilated critically ill patients
1 January 2023 | Urban Vitality<p>INTRODUCTION: Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation (MI-E) is used as an airway clearance intervention in primary care (home ventilation), long-term care (prolonged rehabilitation after intensive care, ...
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Telerehabilitation Delivery in Canada and the Netherlands: Results of a Survey Study
1 January 2023 | Urban VitalityFollowing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telerehabilitation (TR) has been expanding to address the challenges and risks of in-person delivery. It is likely that a level of TR delivery will continue after the ...
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Course of recovery of respiratory muscle strength and its associations with exercise capacity and handgrip strength: A prospective cohort study among survivors of critical illness
1 January 2023 | Urban Vitality<b>Background</b><br/>Mechanical ventilation affects the respiratory muscles, but little is known about long-term recovery of respiratory muscle weakness (RMW) and potential associations with ...
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Effectiveness of outpatient geriatric rehabilitation after inpatient geriatric rehabilitation or hospitalisation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
1 January 2023 | Urban VitalityDue to the increasing number of older people with multi-morbidity, the demand for outpatient geriatric rehabilitation (OGR) will also increase.
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Instructions for Administering the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure with Children Themselves
1 January 2023 | Urban VitalityThe Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) can be used to support children to clarify their needs themselves. However, for pediatric occupational therapists it is not sufficiently clear how to effectively ...
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Recommendations for an exercise intervention and core outcome set for older patients after hospital discharge: Results of an international Delphi study
1 January 2023 | Urban VitalityFor older adults, acute hospitalization is a high-risk event with poor health outcomes, including functional decline. In absence of practical guidelines and high quality randomized controlled trials, this Delphi ...