A5005024411- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
University Medical Center Utrecht
2020-2025
Heidelberg University
2023
University Hospital Heidelberg
2023
Linguistic research on communication regarding the values, wishes, and needs of patients with advanced cancer in palliative phase is limited, resulting an inadequate understanding clinicians' communication. To explore verbal expressions used by hospital oncology clinicians VWN to examine clinician's speech acts act patterns employed during outpatient consultations. A secondary linguistic analysis was performed. Physicians, nurse practitioners nurses were previously recruited. Content...
In palliative care, caregivers often lack words and competences to discuss patients' needs in social spiritual dimensions. The Utrecht Symptom Diary-4 Dimensional (USD-4D) is an instrument that can be used monitor symptoms the physical, psychological, social, dimensions optimize communication between patients caregivers.To assess content validity of USD-4D items related from a patient's perspective, measured terms comprehensibility, relevance, comprehensiveness.An explorative qualitative...
Insight into patients' personal values, wishes, and needs (VWN) by clinicians is essential to guide appropriate palliative care.
In palliative care, the Utrecht Symptom Diary - 4 Dimensional (USD-4D), a Dutch-adapted and validated patient-reported outcome measure, supports multidimensional symptom management through identification monitoring of, as well dialogue on symptoms needs. For USD-4D to optimally support patients' autonomy, it is essential know what patients need use it.
Objectives In palliative care, it is important for family caregivers to spend time with and care the patient, receive (in)formal support. These elements were compromised during Covid-19-pandemic. This study investigates what of non-Covid-19-patients in phase shared online first wave pandemic, their communicative intentions posting online. Methods To investigate online, a reflexive thematic analysis was performed on newspaper articles posts Twitter, Facebook forums. caregivers’ social media...