A5103144118- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Ethics in medical practice
- Criminal Law and Evidence
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Comparative and International Law Studies
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Medical and Health Sciences Research
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
Arkin
2013-2025
Reinier van Arkel
2017-2025
Amsterdam University Medical Centers
2024
University of Amsterdam
2024
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2002-2005
Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2004
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) frequently co-occur in patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD). Patients SSD and OCS experience increased clinical social challenges, including diminished quality of life subjective well-being. However, it is unknown whether co-morbid are associated personal recovery. To investigate the presence severity lower self-reported A cross-sectional design was employed, examining 527 SSD. Group comparisons between without for recovery (assessed...
Abstract Purpose In quantitative research, small to medium associations were found between clinical and personal recovery in patients with severe mental illness (SMI). This finding may result from varying relationships depending on the individual patient. The aim of current study was explore subjective experience treatment interventions stories illness. Methods Semi-structured interviews conducted 26 SMI receiving a Flexible Assertive Community Treatment team Amsterdam, Netherlands. Thematic...
Personal recovery transcends illness and is a unifying human experience. Core elements in personal are hope, meaning, rebuilding oneself. Here we aim to investigate whether factors associated with patients non-affective psychosis, unaffected siblings healthy controls similar. We investigated the association between resilience, social support, socio-demographic illness-related variables 580 patients, 630 siblings, 351 who participated Genetic Risk Outcome of Psychosis (GROUP) study....
Abstract Objective In absence of a gold standard methods to assess competence, three judgements competency geriatric patients are evaluated: the physician, judgement family member, and an instrument. Methods Competence 80 was judged both by physician member. Decision making capacity assessed with vignette. A vignette describes treatment choice, after which following abilities evidencing understanding, reasoning appreciating situation. Cognitive functioning measured Mini‐Mental State...
Abstract Background Recovery from severe mental illness, including psychosis has been described as a personal and unique process, but it rarely is journey undertaken without profound influences of significant others (family, health professionals). Diverging perspectives between persons with family professionals are frequent during the recovery notably in psychotic disorders. We aimed to explore processes collaboration recovery, inform supporting practices. Methods Current qualitative study...
This article evaluates whether providing hypothetical or realistic information influences the assessment of decision-making capacity in elderly patients with (and without) cognitive impairment. Decision-making was assessed by means a clinical vignette that presented choice about to undergo an endoscopic procedure. The following standards were evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively: ability evidence choice, understand, reason, appreciate situation. either real In situation cognitively...
Background: Clinical recovery is often defined as remission of symptoms. Personal described growing beyond the catastrophic effects mental illness, sometimes despite ongoing Aims: To examine relationship between severity clinical symptom domains and personal in patients with severe illness (SMI). Methods: Symptom 105 outpatients SMI at Mentrum, part Arkin Institute for Mental Health Amsterdam, Netherlands, were assessed using Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale–Expanded Version (BPRS-E) Recovery...
Abstract Background Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance that include a clause in which mental health service users consent to involuntary hospital admission and treatment under specified conditions. Medical ethicists legal scholars identified various potential benefits of SBDs but have also raised ethical concerns. Until recently, little was known about the views stakeholders on opportunities challenges SBDs. Aims This article aims foster an international exchange by...
This study examined the relationship between change in symptom severity and personal recovery patients with severe mental illness (SMI). Forty-nine outpatients at Mentrum/Arkin, Amsterdam, Netherlands, were assessed baseline 3 years later, using Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale Mental Health Recovery Measure. Correlation coefficients linear regression analyses used. Further, impact of symptoms on was evaluated. Results show that explained 31.8% variance recovery. Change depression/anxiety...