BACKGROUND Social relationships are important to people and affect their quality of life, morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between elderly patients' descriptions of their social relations and feelings of loneliness, and their general practitioners' assessments of these. METHODS Cross-sectional study in 12 general practices in the Capital Region of ...

Method The team of an occupational therapist and a study nurse is visiting schools, were previously the parents agreed on the participation of the students on the test. Always just students from one class are invited to participate in the test. The students are performing the test according the international guidelines. The demographic data of the students are collected and the parents fill out...

BACKGROUND Although job-related burnout and its core feature emotional exhaustion are common among medical professionals and compromise job satisfaction and professional performance, they have never been systematically studied in medical professors, who have central positions in academic medicine. METHODS We performed an online nationwide survey inviting all 1206 medical professors in The Net...

This study looks at sources of stress among the medical students of the University of the West Indies at the Mona campus. Students of the classes 1993 through 1995 were asked to fill out a questionnaire which had been developed for a similar study at the University of Texas in 1983. The return rate was 66%. The results were compared for differences between males and females and between the diff...

BACKGROUND Routine Outcome Monitoring refers to regular measurements of clients' progress in clinical practice, aiming to evaluate and, if necessary, adapt treatment. Clients fill out questionnaires and clinicians receive feedback about the results. Studies concerning feedback in youth mental health care are rare. The effects of feedback, the importance of specific aspects of feedback, and the ...

This study compared results from Internet and written questionnaires about respiratory symptoms in order to find out if both forms of the survey yielded the same answers. One thousand seventy-one students, ages 13 to 17, were asked to complete either an Internet or a written questionnaire. The demographic characteristics of the participants equalled those of the general Dutch adolescent populat...