Lode Godderis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 313069 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lode Godderis |
| NOMBRES | Lode |
| APELLIDO | Godderis |
| FIRMA | GODDERIS L |
| AFILIACIONES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4764-8835 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Understanding burnout and engagement during medical residency
BACKGROUND: The residency period constitutes a critical phase of medical training, during which increasing clinical and professional responsibilities influence residents' well-being. Grounded in the Job Demands-Resources model, this study investigates how burnout and engagement evolve during this period and examines their associations with specific demands, resources, and personality traits. METHODS: Between 2021 and 2025, data were collected ann…
Understanding dropout intentions in medical education
A human sentinel surveillance framework for comprehensive exposure assessment in occupational and environmental health
Environmental and occupational exposures are increasingly recognized as major determinants of population health, contributing to the rising burden of chronic diseases and adverse health outcomes, yet traditional surveillance systems are often inadequate for capturing the complex and evolving nature of human exposures across diverse settings. In response, we propose the Human Sentinel Surveillance Platform (HSSP), a new digital infrastructure base…
Retaining Healing Hands
Healthcare organizations worldwide face challenges in retaining their healthcare workforce, with individual and organizational factors influencing their intentions to leave. This study conducted eight online co-creation workshops and four Delphi sessions to gain qualitative and in-depth insights into job retention interventions, involving healthcare workers, hospital managers, and policymakers. A thematic analysis was conducted, resulting in mult…
Relationship between Vitamin D Insufficiency, Lipid Profile and Atherogenic Indices in Healthy Women Aged 18–50 Years
Although vitamin D insufficiency has been correlated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), there are few data on the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and atherogenic indices predictive of CVD. This study investigated the relationship of vitamin D status with lipid profile and atherogenic indices in adult women in Morocco. Three hundred women aged 18 to 50 years from Meknes were included. Fasting 25(OH)D and lipi…
Toxicomethylomics revisited
Introduction: Epigenetic marks have been proposed as early changes, at the subcellular level, in disease development. To find more specific biomarkers of effect in occupational exposures to toxicants, DNA methylation studies in peripheral blood cells have been performed. The goal of this review is to summarize and contrast findings about DNA methylation in blood cells from workers exposed to toxicants. Methods: and in experimental animals, as wel…
Absenteeism at Two Occupational Health Services in Belgium from 2014 to 2021
Medical certification is often needed for absences of longer than one workday. The literature remains unclear as to whether this changes absenteeism. Earlier research found that the merging of two firms can augment or diminish short-term absenteeism. This study was conducted to examine whether prolonging self-certification or merging increases short-term absenteeism. Data from January 2014 to December 2021 were retrospectively collected from HR a…
How do Employees Experience Digital Monitoring and Coaching to Better Cope with Their Pain
Background: Pain complaints are an important problem for employees, employers, and society. Up to 60% of the working population suffers from pain and these complaints are responsible for a third of all absenteeism. Pain is a complex phenomenon influenced by physical and psychosocial factors. Digital technologies such as smartphone applications offer opportunities to empower employees and help them manage and cope with their pain. However, lack of…
Accessibility, Retention and Interactivity of Online Co-Creation Workshops
Introduction: Co-creation is becoming increasingly popular to develop interventions that can achieve results beyond scientific findings. Workshops are one of the main ways to collect data and generate ideas in co-creation, which traditionally have been conducted at a fixed, physical location. However, organising face-to-face workshops is considered challenging, due to the transportation time, low flexibility and high costs. This study aims to inv…
HBM4EU Diisocyanates Study—Research Protocol for a Collaborative European Human Biological Monitoring Study on Occupational Exposure
Diisocyanates have long been a leading cause of occupational asthma in Europe, and recently, they have been subjected to a restriction under the REACH regulations. As part of the European Human Biomonitoring project (HBM4EU), we present a study protocol designed to assess occupational exposure to diisocyanates in five European countries. The objectives of the study are to assess exposure in a number of sectors that have not been widely reported o…
HBM4EU Chromates Study
Work-related exposures in industrial processing of chromate (chrome plating, surface treatment and welding) raise concern regarding the health risk of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)). In this study, performed under the HBM4EU project, we focused on better understanding the determinants of exposure and recognising how risk management measures (RMMs) contribute to a reduction in exposure. HBM and occupational hygiene data were collected from 399 worke…
The long-term effect of job mobility on workers’ mental health
Our study found that workers with external job mobility have a doubled risk of treatment with neuropsychological medication, compared to workers without job mobility
Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000–2016
BACKGROUND: World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO) systematic reviews reported sufficient evidence for higher risks of ischemic heart disease and stroke amongst people working long hours (≥55 hours/week), compared with people working standard hours (35-40 hours/week). This article presents WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of global, regional, and national exposure to long working hours, for 194 countries, and the attri…
The impact of Covid-19 on Belgian mental health care
The Covid-19 pandemic is primarily viewed as a threat to physical health, and therefore, biomedical sciences have become an integral part of the public discourse guiding policy decisions. Nonetheless, the pandemic and the measures implemented have an impact on the population’s psychosocial health. The impact of Covid-19 on the psychosocial care system should be thoroughly investigated to mitigate this effect. In this context, the present study wa…
Disclosure in Online vs. Face-to-Face Occupational Health Screenings
Replacing or supplementing face-to-face health screening by occupational physicians with online surveys can be attractive for various reasons. However, the (cost-)effectiveness of both depends on employees' willingness to disclose occupational health problems. This article investigates whether employees show a different willingness to disclose information in online surveys compared to face-to-face consultations with an occupational physician. Emp…
Comparison of Asbestos Victim Relief Available Outside of Conventional Occupational Compensation Schemes
The asbestos victim relief schemes were introduced to resolve the issue of victims of asbestos-related diseases not receiving compensation through conventional legal orders. This article seeks to derive the differences and commonalities of various asbestos victim relief schemes available outside of the conventional occupational compensation system along with a systematic understanding and to propose plans for improvement through a comparative stu…
Confirmed Covid-19 Cases per Economic Activity during Autumn Wave in Belgium
Some occupational sectors, such as human health and care, food service, cultural and sport activities, have been associated with a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection than other sectors. To curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, it is preferable to apply targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions on selected economic sectors, rather than a full lockdown. However, the effect of these general and sector-specific interventions on the virus circulation has on…
Marocovid
To assess whether knowledge, attitude, and perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic predicted changes in behaviors among the general Moroccan population, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted between 30 March and 20 April involving a total of 14,157 participants. The statistical analysis of the data included univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Our results suggest that less than ten days after the Moroccan government anno…
HBM4EU Occupational Biomonitoring Study on e-Waste—Study Protocol
Workers involved in the processing of electronic waste (e-waste) are potentially exposed to toxic chemicals. If exposure occurs, this may result in uptake and potential adverse health effects. Thus, exposure surveillance is an important requirement for health risk management and prevention of occupational disease. Human biomonitoring by measurement of specific biomarkers in body fluids is considered as an effective method of exposure surveillance…
The Impact of a Change in Employment on Three Work-Related Diseases
Change in employment and psychosocial load were found as two important risk factors for being on medication for cardiovascular (CVD). Dealing with loads, doing shift work and being daily exposed to the noise of 87 dB correlated with being on medication for musculoskeletal (MSD). Dealing with physical loads, doing night work and being exposed to the noise of 80 dB were risk factors for being on medication for neuropsychological (NPD). While doing …
Psychosocial determinants predicting long-term sickness absence
Background This study assessed the psychosocial determinants as explanatory variables for the length of the work disability period. The aim was to estimate the predictive value of a selected set of psychosocial determinants from the Quickscan questionnaire for the length of the sick leave period. A comparison was also made with the most common biomedical determinant: diagnosis. Methods In a cohort study of 4 981 insured Belgian patients, the leng…
Methodological Challenges in the Economic Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Programmes
An emerging issue in occupational health and safety (OHS) is that interventions increasingly have to demonstrate that they offer sufficient value for money. To this end, the last decennia have seen more and more economic evaluation methods being employed in this field. However, several recent publications have indicated that many of the published studies suffer from important shortcomings. This paper aims to highlight difficulties in assessing th…
Potential Health Risk of Endocrine Disruptors in Construction Sector and Plastics Industry
Endocrine disruptors (EDs) belong to large and diverse groups of agents that may cause multiple biological effects associated with, for example, hormone imbalance and infertility, chronic diseases such as diabetes, genome damage and cancer. The health risks related with the exposure to EDs are typically underestimated, less well characterized, and not regulated to the same extent as, for example, carcinogens. The increased production and utilizat…
Increased Risk of Burnout for Physicians and Nurses Involved in a Patient Safety Incident
BACKGROUND: Human errors occur everywhere, including in health care. Not only the patient, but also the involved health professional is affected (ie, the "second victim"). OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of health care professionals being personally involved in a patient safety incident (PSI), as well as the relationship of involvement and degree of harm with problematic medication use, excessive alcohol consumption, risk of burnout, wo…
Reproducibility and validity of an FFQ to assess usual intake of methyl-group donors
Objective To develop and validate a novel FFQ to assess the daily intake of four methyl-group donors (methionine, choline, betaine and folate). Design The relative validity of the FFQ was assessed by comparison with 7 d estimated diet records ( n 80) and its reproducibility was evaluated by repeated administrations 6 weeks apart ( n 92). Paired Student t tests were used to compare group means and de-attenuated intra-class correlations to investig…
Accessibility, Retention and Interactivity of Online Co-Creation Workshops
Introduction: Co-creation is becoming increasingly popular to develop interventions that can achieve results beyond scientific findings. Workshops are one of the main ways to collect data and generate ideas in co-creation, which traditionally have been conducted at a fixed, physical location. However, organising face-to-face workshops is considered challenging, due to the transportation time, low flexibility and high costs. This study aims to inv…
Determinants and nutritional implications associated with low-fat food consumption
Reproducibility and validity of an FFQ to assess usual intake of methyl-group donors
Objective To develop and validate a novel FFQ to assess the daily intake of four methyl-group donors (methionine, choline, betaine and folate). Design The relative validity of the FFQ was assessed by comparison with 7 d estimated diet records ( n 80) and its reproducibility was evaluated by repeated administrations 6 weeks apart ( n 92). Paired Student t tests were used to compare group means and de-attenuated intra-class correlations to investig…
Increased Risk of Burnout for Physicians and Nurses Involved in a Patient Safety Incident
BACKGROUND: Human errors occur everywhere, including in health care. Not only the patient, but also the involved health professional is affected (ie, the "second victim"). OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of health care professionals being personally involved in a patient safety incident (PSI), as well as the relationship of involvement and degree of harm with problematic medication use, excessive alcohol consumption, risk of burnout, wo…
Methodological Challenges in the Economic Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Programmes
An emerging issue in occupational health and safety (OHS) is that interventions increasingly have to demonstrate that they offer sufficient value for money. To this end, the last decennia have seen more and more economic evaluation methods being employed in this field. However, several recent publications have indicated that many of the published studies suffer from important shortcomings. This paper aims to highlight difficulties in assessing th…
Potential Health Risk of Endocrine Disruptors in Construction Sector and Plastics Industry
Endocrine disruptors (EDs) belong to large and diverse groups of agents that may cause multiple biological effects associated with, for example, hormone imbalance and infertility, chronic diseases such as diabetes, genome damage and cancer. The health risks related with the exposure to EDs are typically underestimated, less well characterized, and not regulated to the same extent as, for example, carcinogens. The increased production and utilizat…
The Impact of a Change in Employment on Three Work-Related Diseases
Change in employment and psychosocial load were found as two important risk factors for being on medication for cardiovascular (CVD). Dealing with loads, doing shift work and being daily exposed to the noise of 87 dB correlated with being on medication for musculoskeletal (MSD). Dealing with physical loads, doing night work and being exposed to the noise of 80 dB were risk factors for being on medication for neuropsychological (NPD). While doing …
Psychosocial determinants predicting long-term sickness absence
Background This study assessed the psychosocial determinants as explanatory variables for the length of the work disability period. The aim was to estimate the predictive value of a selected set of psychosocial determinants from the Quickscan questionnaire for the length of the sick leave period. A comparison was also made with the most common biomedical determinant: diagnosis. Methods In a cohort study of 4 981 insured Belgian patients, the leng…
Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000–2016
BACKGROUND: World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labour Organization (ILO) systematic reviews reported sufficient evidence for higher risks of ischemic heart disease and stroke amongst people working long hours (≥55 hours/week), compared with people working standard hours (35-40 hours/week). This article presents WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of global, regional, and national exposure to long working hours, for 194 countries, and the attri…
The impact of Covid-19 on Belgian mental health care
The Covid-19 pandemic is primarily viewed as a threat to physical health, and therefore, biomedical sciences have become an integral part of the public discourse guiding policy decisions. Nonetheless, the pandemic and the measures implemented have an impact on the population’s psychosocial health. The impact of Covid-19 on the psychosocial care system should be thoroughly investigated to mitigate this effect. In this context, the present study wa…
Disclosure in Online vs. Face-to-Face Occupational Health Screenings
Replacing or supplementing face-to-face health screening by occupational physicians with online surveys can be attractive for various reasons. However, the (cost-)effectiveness of both depends on employees' willingness to disclose occupational health problems. This article investigates whether employees show a different willingness to disclose information in online surveys compared to face-to-face consultations with an occupational physician. Emp…
Comparison of Asbestos Victim Relief Available Outside of Conventional Occupational Compensation Schemes
The asbestos victim relief schemes were introduced to resolve the issue of victims of asbestos-related diseases not receiving compensation through conventional legal orders. This article seeks to derive the differences and commonalities of various asbestos victim relief schemes available outside of the conventional occupational compensation system along with a systematic understanding and to propose plans for improvement through a comparative stu…
Confirmed Covid-19 Cases per Economic Activity during Autumn Wave in Belgium
Some occupational sectors, such as human health and care, food service, cultural and sport activities, have been associated with a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection than other sectors. To curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2, it is preferable to apply targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions on selected economic sectors, rather than a full lockdown. However, the effect of these general and sector-specific interventions on the virus circulation has on…
Marocovid
To assess whether knowledge, attitude, and perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic predicted changes in behaviors among the general Moroccan population, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted between 30 March and 20 April involving a total of 14,157 participants. The statistical analysis of the data included univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Our results suggest that less than ten days after the Moroccan government anno…
HBM4EU Occupational Biomonitoring Study on e-Waste—Study Protocol
Workers involved in the processing of electronic waste (e-waste) are potentially exposed to toxic chemicals. If exposure occurs, this may result in uptake and potential adverse health effects. Thus, exposure surveillance is an important requirement for health risk management and prevention of occupational disease. Human biomonitoring by measurement of specific biomarkers in body fluids is considered as an effective method of exposure surveillance…
HBM4EU Diisocyanates Study—Research Protocol for a Collaborative European Human Biological Monitoring Study on Occupational Exposure
Diisocyanates have long been a leading cause of occupational asthma in Europe, and recently, they have been subjected to a restriction under the REACH regulations. As part of the European Human Biomonitoring project (HBM4EU), we present a study protocol designed to assess occupational exposure to diisocyanates in five European countries. The objectives of the study are to assess exposure in a number of sectors that have not been widely reported o…
HBM4EU Chromates Study
Work-related exposures in industrial processing of chromate (chrome plating, surface treatment and welding) raise concern regarding the health risk of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)). In this study, performed under the HBM4EU project, we focused on better understanding the determinants of exposure and recognising how risk management measures (RMMs) contribute to a reduction in exposure. HBM and occupational hygiene data were collected from 399 worke…
The long-term effect of job mobility on workers’ mental health
Our study found that workers with external job mobility have a doubled risk of treatment with neuropsychological medication, compared to workers without job mobility
Toxicomethylomics revisited
Introduction: Epigenetic marks have been proposed as early changes, at the subcellular level, in disease development. To find more specific biomarkers of effect in occupational exposures to toxicants, DNA methylation studies in peripheral blood cells have been performed. The goal of this review is to summarize and contrast findings about DNA methylation in blood cells from workers exposed to toxicants. Methods: and in experimental animals, as wel…
Absenteeism at Two Occupational Health Services in Belgium from 2014 to 2021
Medical certification is often needed for absences of longer than one workday. The literature remains unclear as to whether this changes absenteeism. Earlier research found that the merging of two firms can augment or diminish short-term absenteeism. This study was conducted to examine whether prolonging self-certification or merging increases short-term absenteeism. Data from January 2014 to December 2021 were retrospectively collected from HR a…
How do Employees Experience Digital Monitoring and Coaching to Better Cope with Their Pain
Background: Pain complaints are an important problem for employees, employers, and society. Up to 60% of the working population suffers from pain and these complaints are responsible for a third of all absenteeism. Pain is a complex phenomenon influenced by physical and psychosocial factors. Digital technologies such as smartphone applications offer opportunities to empower employees and help them manage and cope with their pain. However, lack of…
Accessibility, Retention and Interactivity of Online Co-Creation Workshops
Introduction: Co-creation is becoming increasingly popular to develop interventions that can achieve results beyond scientific findings. Workshops are one of the main ways to collect data and generate ideas in co-creation, which traditionally have been conducted at a fixed, physical location. However, organising face-to-face workshops is considered challenging, due to the transportation time, low flexibility and high costs. This study aims to inv…
Retaining Healing Hands
Healthcare organizations worldwide face challenges in retaining their healthcare workforce, with individual and organizational factors influencing their intentions to leave. This study conducted eight online co-creation workshops and four Delphi sessions to gain qualitative and in-depth insights into job retention interventions, involving healthcare workers, hospital managers, and policymakers. A thematic analysis was conducted, resulting in mult…
Relationship between Vitamin D Insufficiency, Lipid Profile and Atherogenic Indices in Healthy Women Aged 18–50 Years
Although vitamin D insufficiency has been correlated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), there are few data on the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and atherogenic indices predictive of CVD. This study investigated the relationship of vitamin D status with lipid profile and atherogenic indices in adult women in Morocco. Three hundred women aged 18 to 50 years from Meknes were included. Fasting 25(OH)D and lipi…
A human sentinel surveillance framework for comprehensive exposure assessment in occupational and environmental health
Environmental and occupational exposures are increasingly recognized as major determinants of population health, contributing to the rising burden of chronic diseases and adverse health outcomes, yet traditional surveillance systems are often inadequate for capturing the complex and evolving nature of human exposures across diverse settings. In response, we propose the Human Sentinel Surveillance Platform (HSSP), a new digital infrastructure base…
Understanding burnout and engagement during medical residency
BACKGROUND: The residency period constitutes a critical phase of medical training, during which increasing clinical and professional responsibilities influence residents' well-being. Grounded in the Job Demands-Resources model, this study investigates how burnout and engagement evolve during this period and examines their associations with specific demands, resources, and personality traits. METHODS: Between 2021 and 2025, data were collected ann…
Medicine (23 obras) · Environmental health (12 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Nursing (8 obras) · Population (7 obras) · Psychological intervention (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Internal Medicine (6 obras) · Chemistry (5 obras)