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The Lancashire quality of life profile: first experiences in the Netherlands
- Authors:
- van NIEUWENHUIZEN Chijs, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 34(5), October 1998, pp.513-524.
- Publisher:
- Springer
In the Netherlands, as in many other European countries, there is a strong desire for a reliable, valid and feasible instrument to assess the quality of life of people with long-term mental illness. After careful evaluation, it was decided to translate and adapt the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (LQOP) developed by Oliver and associates. This article presents the preliminary results of a pilot study using the LQOLP. Results indicate that the psychometric properties of the translated LQOLP are encouraging and that the instrument can be used for people with mental illness who live in the Netherlands.
Religious coping in highly religious psychiatric inpatients
- Author:
- PIEPER Joseph Z. P.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Religion and Culture, 7(4), December 2004, pp.349-363.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study among highly religious psychiatric patients in a mental hospital in the Netherlands focused on the following issues: their religious and spiritual beliefs and activities; their religious coping activities, measured using Pargament's three coping styles and a positive religious coping scale; the influence of religious coping on psychological and existential well-being; and the predictive value of general religiousness, as compared with religious coping activities, regarding psychological and existential well-being. For this population of inpatients, religion had a positive influence on their ways of dealing with mental problems; religious coping was positively correlated with existential and psychological well-being. General religiousness as well as religious coping were positively correlated with existential well-being, whereas psychological well-being primarily was predicted by positive religious coping. Results are discussed in the context of theoretical notions of religious coping, addressing in particular the positive influence of religious beliefs, relying on God, religious activities and religious social support in psychological and existential times of crisis.
Severe interpersonal violence against children in sport: associated mental health problems and quality of life in adulthood
- Authors:
- VERTOMMEN Tine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 76, 2018, pp.459-468.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
In a recent large-scale prevalence study of interpersonal violence (IV) against child athletes in the Netherlands and Belgium we found that 9% of adult respondents who participated in organised sports before the age of 18 had experienced severe psychological violence, 8% severe physical violence, and 6% severe sexual violence in various sport settings. While the general literature has repeatedly shown that exposure to IV during childhood is associated with mental health problems in adulthood and to a lesser extent with reduced quality of life (QOL), these relationships have not been demonstrated in (former) athletes. Thus, the current study aims to assess the association of severe childhood IV in sport and adult wellbeing. Depression, anxiety, and somatisation were assessed in the same general population sample (N = 4043) using the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-18) and QOL with the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-Brèf). The association between severe IV in sport and adult wellbeing was investigated using multiple linear regression while controlling for demographics, recent life events, and relatives’ psychological problems. The authors found severe sexual, physical, and psychological childhood IV in sport to be associated with more adult psychological distress and reduced QOL. Polyvictimisation shows the strongest correlation with poorer wellbeing and QOL. Recent life events, relatives’ psychological problems, marital status, and level of education were significant covariates in the psychological symptoms and QOL assessed. The authors hope that these new insights prompt sport administrators to implement broad spectrum child protection measures and raise the awareness of mental health professionals about the necessity to also screen for adverse childhood experiences in the sport context. (Edited publisher abstract)
Green care farms, a safe community between illness or addiction and the wider society
- Authors:
- ELINGS Marjolein, HASSINK Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Therapeutic Communities: the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 29(3), Autumn 2008, pp.310-322.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper presents the results of focus group interviews with 42 people with a psychiatric or addiction history who work in eight different green care farms in the Netherlands. Undertaking farming activities helps participants feel useful and healthier and they develop more self-esteem, self-respect and responsibility. Working on a green care farm can contribute more structure and discipline to the lives of participants, which can create the foundation for new activities or (voluntary) work elsewhere.
The effect of psychiatric rehabilitation on the activity and participation level of clients with long-term psychiatric disabilities
- Authors:
- VAN WEL Tom, FELLING Albert, PERSOON Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 39(6), December 2003, pp.535-546.
- Publisher:
- Springer
During the last decades of the 20th century, many psychiatric hospitals changed the living environments of their clients with long-term psychiatric disabilities. Investigates the effect of this environmental psychiatric rehabilitation and normalization process on the activity and participation level of such clients residing in one Dutch psychiatric hospital. The seven years of panel research demonstrated that more normal living environments have a positive effect on clients' activity and participation level. This is controlled for the fact that younger clients, and clients with a relative high activity and participation level were selected for these normal living environments.
From a ‘state mental Hospital' to new homes in the city: longitudinal research into the use of intramural facilities by long-stay care-dependent psychiatric clients in Amsterdam
- Authors:
- DUURKOOP Pim, VAN DYCK Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 39(1), February 2003, pp.77-92.
- Publisher:
- Springer
In 1986, the traditional psychiatric hospital where 70% of Amsterdam's intramural treatment took place, was closed down. The progress of two groups of long-stay patients was followed for five years after their transferral to new small-scale facilities in Amsterdam. The ADL (activities of daily living) functioning of the most severely impaired clients improved and their psychiatric symptoms decreased, while no improvement was seen in the functioning of the more independent clients. This evaluation makes clear that the improvement of the severely disabled patients depends on the intensity of care given. The improvement in the new facilities is no guarantee for a further development into a less care-intensive environment. The more independent clients, however, could more easily be transferred to less care-intensive facilities.