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How to Deal with Uninformed and Poorly Informed Opinions of Citizens? A Critical Approach to Online Public Engagement
instructive, provided that one searches for the implicit message participants try to convey related to their values, fears, or needs. Since there will always be less informed or uninformed citizens, that would ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
levels (low, medium or high depending on number of correct answers) and scores for perceptions, self-efficacy, cues to action and preventive measures. Results We included 776 participants (62% females), of ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
inorganic arsenic) in a sample of 281 adolescents (aged 12-19y) for the BMH- WAL survey (2019-2020) using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The participants completed self-administered ...
Linking health survey data with health insurance data: methodology, challenges, opportunities and recommendations for public health research. An experience from the HISlink project in Belgium
longitudinal study (e.g. identifying predictors of nursing home admission among older BHIS participants). The linkage of both data sources combines their strengths but does not overcome all weaknesses.The ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
status (SES). Methods Data from the Belgian Health Interview Survey (HIS), a representative cross-sectional household survey conducted in 1997, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2013 and 2018, was used. Study participants ...
Association between SARS-CoV-2 variants and post COVID-19 condition: findings from a longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population
as well as PCC symptoms categories was assessed using multivariable logistic regression. RESULTS: The proportion of PCC among participants infected during the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron-dominant periods ...
Comparing frailty prevalence between countries: validation of the Global Burden of Disease study Frailty Index (GBD-FI) in the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe
Area under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) were fitted to examine diagnostic accuracy for frailty and predictive validity for 2-year mortality. RESULTS: In total, 31,624 participants aged ...
Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 hospitalisation in adults (≥ 20 years) during Omicron-dominant circulation: I-MOVE-COVID-19 and VEBIS SARI VE networks, Europe, 2021 to 2022.
effectiveness (VE) in participating European countries since early 2021.AimWe aimed to measure VE against PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 in patients ≥ 20 years hospitalised with severe acute respiratory infection ...
Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 hospitalisation in adults (≥ 20 years) during Alpha- and Delta-dominant circulation: I-MOVE-COVID-19 and VEBIS SARI VE networks, Europe, 2021.
2021.MethodsForty-six participating hospitals across 14 countries follow a similar generic protocol using the test-negative case-control design. We defined complete primary series vaccination (PSV) as two doses of ...
The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults
adults (mean age 76 years ±7.4, 35% male). Thirty-nine participants experienced at least one fall in the 8 month follow up. Lusardi’s approach has a higher sensitivity score (89.7% compared to 10.3%) and ...