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Lifestyle Innovations based on youth’s Knowledge and Experience (LIKE) The LIKE project aims to develop an innovative and accessible approach to promote sustainable healthy physical activity, behavior, eating and sleeping habits.

Ongoing

MEES studies: extension of the PROMIS item bank The MEES studies aim to improve the measurement of societal participation by extending the PROMIS item bank. These item banks are large sets of questions (items) that all measure the same construct.

Ongoing

My Little Moves ‘My Little Moves’ aims to develop valid, reliable and user-friendly measurement instruments to assess young children’s 24-h movement behaviors.

Ongoing

Netherlands Consortium of Dementia Cohorts; the population-based cohorts The Netherlands Consortium of Dementia Cohorts is a collaborative project of teams representing various dementia-oriented cohort studies.

Ongoing

Optimizing multidisciplinary team collaboration through awareness and team training The scope of this project is to conduct various studies, all aimed at optimizing the quality of multidisciplinary team meetings in the hospital (MDTMs; in Dutch MDO’s) and thus the quality of patient care that results from an MDTM.

Ongoing

PEPTALK: practical guide for GPs and POH-GGZ for patients with Persistent Physical Symptoms (ALK) Persistent physical symptoms (ALK in Dutch) are highly prevalent, impairing and costly.

Ongoing

PRevention Of Malnutrition In Senior Subjects (PROMISS) We have expertise in epidemiology, clinical trials, geriatrics, nutrition, activity, microbiomics and in behavior-, consumer-, sensory- and computersciences.

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Patient-centered innovation in plastic and reconstructive surgery This project aims to co-design and implement digital care pathways with customized patient education to properly involve and inform patients during their care process.

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Project on meaningful societal participation of informal caregivers The project focuses on societal participation of Dutch informal caregivers and the meaningfulness that they attach to these participation activities.

Ongoing

SNOWDROP project Big Data for joint management of fall-related medication management for the elderly.

Ongoing

Shared decision making about palliative systemic treatment: CHOICE and SYMPHONY Addressing the effect of a variety of interventions to promote Shared Decision Making in consultations about treatment for advanced cancer.

Ongoing

Smoking reduction by a smoking cessation strategy in the National Cervical Cancer screening program (SUCCESS study) The SUCCESS study aims to assess the effectiveness of a smoking cessation strategy initiated after cervical cancer screening.

Ongoing

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