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Context: In een huisartsenpraktijk maken bejaarden een steeds groter en belangrijker deel uit van de populatie. Depressie is de meest voorkomende psychiatrische stoornis bij ouderen in de samenleving. Artsen slagen er vaak niet in om distress en depressie bij hun patiênten te detecteren door tijdsgebrek en door een gebrek aan vertrouwen in psychometrische instrumenten. Het onderkennen van distress bij de patiënt heeft ook tot gevolg dat deze niet de farmacologische en niet-farmacologische behandelingen, zoals psychotherapie, krijgt die de distress kan

Background: Improvements in treatment have resulted in an increasing number of cancer survivors potentially being able to return to work after medical treatment. In this paper we focus on the considerations regarding return to work (RTW) of breast cancer absentees in the Belgian context and how these considerations are related to reactions from their social environment.

Background The diagnosis of breast cancer increasingly implies a return-to-work (RTW) challenge
as survival rates increase. RTW is regarded as a multidisciplinary process and a country’s legislation affects the degree of involvement of the different stakeholders. We elucidated on bottlenecks and contributing factors and the relationship between policy and practice regarding RTW of employees with breast cancer as perceived by Belgian (Flemish) stakeholders. Methods

Purpose: Most female breast cancer patients are forced to interrupt their professional activities during treatment. Qualitative research was carried out to assess women’s experiences of being work disabled because of breast cancer.
Patients and methods: In-depth interviews were analyzed to understand patient’s experiences and to gain more insight in their perspectives on living with breast cancer.

Background: End-of-life care has become an issue of great clinical and public health concern. From analyses of official death certificates, we have societal knowledge on how many people die, at what age, where and from what causes. However, we know little about how people are dying. There is a lack of population-based and nationwide data that evaluate and monitor the circumstances of death and the care received in the final months of life.

This study investigates the fear of breast cancer recurrence and its relationship with trait anxiety and somatosensory amplification. Fifty-six former Belgian breast cancer patients participated in a questionnaire study which included the 'Fear of Recurrence Questionnaire' (Northouse, 1981), the 'Somatosensory Amplification Scale' (Barsky et al., 1988) and the 'State-Trait Anxiety Inventory' (Spielberger et al., 1983). Results indicated that the majority experienced fear of cancer recurrence.

Nationaal onderzoek naar de psychosociale noden van kankerpatiënten, hoe de ondersteuning nu georganiseerd is en aanbevelingen voor de toekomst.

Volume 1 - Studie over de psychosociale behoeften van patiënten met kanker en hun naasten 
Volume 2 - Studie over de psychosociale moeilijkheden van kinderen met kanker en hun naasten
Volume 3 - Organisatie van de begeleiding van psychosociale behoeften van de patiënten met kanker 

Objective. To describe role and involvement of Life End Information Forum (LEIF) physicians in end-of-life care decisions and euthanasia in Flanders.

Study Design. All 132 LEIF physicians in Belgium received a questionnaire inquiring about their activities in the past year, and their end-of-life care training and experience.