News on health and wellbeing
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Better weight recording of obese patients is desirable
23rd October 2019Weight reduction in overweight patients is limited after a lifestyle intervention. The same applies after treatment with a dietitian: three-quarters of overweight patients do not achieve the recommended weight reduction of 5% (or more) of their starting weight. The recording of overweight also falls short. This is the conclusion of Lisa Verberne in her dissertation 'Management of overweight and obesity in primary healthcare', which she defends on October 30 at Tilburg University.
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Depending on PTSD-symptoms levels, traumas have a negative or positive impact on loneliness
24th January 2018PRESS RELEASE 24 January 2018 - Loneliness weakens the (mental) health. After traumatic events, some of the victims suffer from loneliness. Victims with very severe PTSD-symptom levels more often suffer from loneliness than victims with very low PTS-symptom levels. But, non-victims more often suffer from loneliness than victims with very low PTS-symptom levels.
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Long-term PTSD-symptoms undermine coping self-efficacy
02nd November 2017PRESS RELEASE 2 November 2017 - The higher the coping self-efficacy, the lower the posttraumatic distress (PTSD) in the first months after experiencing a shocking event. In the long-term, however, PTSD-symptoms start to undermine victims’ coping self-efficacy. This is one of the findings of new research by Tilburg University in the Netherlands.