Mariska de Wit

Amsterdam University Medical Center | VUmc · Department of Public and Occupational Health - Coronel Institute of Occupational Health

Background Person-centered care is needed to effectively support workers with chronic health conditions. Person-centered care aims to provide care tailored to an individual person’s preferences, needs and values. To achieve this, a more active, supportive, and coaching role of occupational and insurance physicians is required. In previous research,...

Background Cognitions and perceptions of workers with chronic health problems, such as catastrophizing thoughts and fear-avoidance beliefs, can negatively influence work participation. The Progressive Goal Attainment Program (PGAP) is an intervention developed in Canada with the aim of decreasing limiting cognitions and perceptions and increasing w...

Purpose To evaluate the effects of a training program for occupational health professionals (OHPs) on their ability to identify the cognitions and perceptions of workers with a chronic disease that may hinder work participation, and on their ability to recommend evidence-based interventions aimed at the identified cognitions and perceptions. Metho...

Background In order to improve work participation of workers with a chronic disease, it is important for occupational health professionals (OHPs) to focus on those factors that can influence work participation. Cognitions and perceptions, such as recovery expectations and self-efficacy, are examples of these factors that can influence work particip...

The number of people in the working age with a chronic disease is rising. Occupational physicians and insurance physicians are occupational health professionals (OHPs) with a key role to increase work participation of people with a chronic disease by intervening on factors that can limit work participation. Important factors in this are cognitions...

Background Cognitions and perceptions, such as motivation and return to work (RTW) expectations, can influence work participation of employees with chronic health problems. This makes these cognitions and perceptions important factors for occupational health professionals to intervene upon in order to increase work participation. There is, however,...

Deze meta-analyse is geschreven in het kader van een bachelorthesis in het derde jaar van de studie Geneeskunde. Het lumbosacraal radiculair syndroom (LRS) is een neurologische aandoening van de onderrug en deze aandoening gaat veelvuldig gepaard met uitstralende pijn in één been of bil.1 De LRS-incidentie is het hoogst in de leeftijdsgroep van 30-...

The objective of this study is to assess how occupational physicians (OPs) and insurance physicians (IPs) can best obtain information concerning cognitions and perceptions from employees with a chronic disease. In total, 155 OPs and 56 IPs have completed a questionnaire about obtaining information concerning these factors. In addition, focus group...

Purpose: To examine current practices of occupational health professionals in assessing significant others’ cognitions and behavioral responses that may influence work outcomes of workers with a chronic disease. Methods: A survey study among occupational health professionals, focusing on the assessment of illness perceptions, work-related beliefs a...

Purpose The objective of this focus group study is to assess how occupational physicians (OPs) and insurance physicians (IPs) can best obtain information concerning person-related factors from employees. The research question was: what is the most effective way for OPs and IPs to obtain information concerning person-related factors, in the opinion...

Objective: Person-related factors influencing work participation of employees with health problems are important. However, the best method to obtain information about them according to occupational physicians (OPs) and insurance physicians (IPs), is unknown. Methods: Questionnaires in which OPs and IPs rated the importance of and described methods...

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a construct-based situational judgment test of the HEXACO personality dimensions. In four studies, among applicants, employees, and Amazon Mechanical Turk participants (Ns = 72–305), we showed that it is possible to assess the six personality dimensions with a situational judgment test and that...

Purpose: The objective of this systematic review was to explore and provide systematically assessed information about the association between person-related factors and work participation of people with health problems. The research question was: what is the association between selected person-related factors and work participation of workers with...

Introduction Sick leave or work disability, is a major health problem, with negative consequences for the employee, employer and society. In order to prevent or decrease the duration of sick leave, it is important to know which factors influence work participation. Research revealed that besides disease-related factors, person-related factors like...