A5020170108- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Ethics in medical practice
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Amsterdam University Medical Centers
2019-2024
University of Amsterdam
2020-2023
Emma Kinderziekenhuis
2023
Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam
2018
Intensive care is a stressful environment in which team-family conflicts commonly occur. If managed poorly, can have negative effects on all parties involved. Previous studies mainly investigated these and their management retrospective way. This study aimed to prospectively explore conflicts, including its main topics, complicating factors, doctors’ conflict strategies the effect of strategies. Conversations between doctors neonatal, pediatric, adult intensive unit large university-based...
Intensive care doctors have to find the right balance between sharing crucial decisions with families of patients on one hand and not overburdening them other hand. This requires a tailored approach instead model based approach.To explore how involve in decision-making process regarding life-sustaining treatment neonatal, pediatric, adult intensive care.Exploratory inductive thematic analysis 101 audio-recorded conversations.One hundred four family members (61% female, 39% male) 71 (60% 40%...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physicians and parents of critically ill neonates children receiving intensive care have to make decisions on the child’s behalf. Throughout illness treatment trajectory, adequately discussing uncertainties with is pivotal because this enhances quality decision-making process may positively affect parents’ well-being. We investigated how physicians discuss uncertainty discussion evolves over time during trajectory. METHODS asked working in NICU PICU 3 university...
In intensive care units (ICUs), decisions about the continuation or discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment (LST) are made on a daily basis. Professional guidelines recommend an open exchange standpoints and underlying arguments between doctors families to arrive at most appropriate decision. Yet, it is still largely unknown how argue in real-life conversations. This study aimed (1) identify which use support continue discontinue LST, (2) investigate structure their arguments, (3)...
Abstract A recent line of argumentation research has focused on the examination prototypical argumentative patterns – that can be theoretically expected in view type standpoint defended, institutional aim, and conventions constraints context ( Van Eemeren 2016 : 13–15). This paper aims to add a new dimension both this health communication by determining whether types consultations about palliative systemic treatment for advanced cancer are stereotypical as well, is, they dominant...
To provide support to parents of critically ill children, it is important that physicians adequately respond parents' emotions. In this study, we investigated emotions expressed by parents, physicians' responses these expressions, and after the in conversations which crucial decisions regarding child's life-sustaining treatment had be made.Forty-nine audio-recorded between 12 children working neonatal pediatric intensive care units 3 Dutch university medical centers were coded analyzed using...
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...
Abstract The Dutch are often thought of as direct, verbally aggressive, and argumentative. Yet, evidence for this stereotype is lacking. This study explores argumentative predispositions in the Netherlands. In a survey, students’ ( N = 133) argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness, argument frames, conflict personalization were measured. effects gender education assessed. To explore role culture on comparisons to U.S. students (benchmark) made. Overall, showed orientations, expectations,...