Zoekresultaten

… Mean age was 72 years (range 63– 78), four lived alone, three smoked and three had oxygen treatment. Four main themes emerged: *having a life despite of COPD,*pre- dictability and confidence in getting help,*the struggling balance between insight and compli- ance to treatment and *barriers and facilita- tors of the system. The women were no longer able to do household chores due to breathless- ness, they lacked energy to socialize and were concerned about altered appearance due to COPD treatment. They used different strate- gies of coping and adaptation in their daily life that enabled them to have a good life despite of COPD. To feel safe at home, the women wanted a contact person at the hospital who know their story that could be telephoned for questions regarding COPD or visited at the hospital for an assessment of whether hospital- isation was required. The women experienced a struggle between knowing they should stop smoking, need to eat and drink sufficiently and increase their …

… “Given the amount of time they spend together and the nature of their contact, also taking into account their interdependence, the relationship between a PhD candidate and his or her supervisor is pivotal for their achievements. (…) Trying to improve the quality of supervision by improving the relationship between PhD candidate and his or her supervisor requires learning about their needs, wants and expectations.” H. van der Boom, G. Klabbers, K. … by their PhD candidates. The anonymity of individual PhD candidates is safeguarded, as only average, anonymous ratings will be shown when four or more different PhD candidates have provided feedback in PhD TRACK. The Board, Institutes and Faculty PhD Committee (FPC) of FHML consider it important that feedback is gathered on a structural basis from PhD candidates on how they experience their PhD trajectory in broad sense. For this purpose, PhD candidates are requested to fill out a questionnaire in …