Onno C P Van Schayck

Biographic Data

ID328291
NAMEOnno C P Van Schayck
GIVEN NAMESOnno C P
FAMILY NAMEVan Schayck
SIGNATUREVAN SCHAYCK O C P
AFFILIATIONSMaastricht University
ORCID0000-0002-3016-1476
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR43
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The impact of greening interventions in school grounds on social behavior and cognitive performance among primary school children

    Open AccessLore Verheyen, Bo H W van Engelen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Green spaces have been identified as beneficial for children's mental health, as well as cognitive performance, however, less is known about the role of biodiversity within these environments. Here, we study the impact of greening schoolyards, especially with regard to biodiversity enrichment, on children's behavior, emotion recognition, cognitive performance and mental effort, and attentional bias, compared to observations in control…

  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Biodiverse Green Schoolyards on Child BMI z-Score and Physical Metrics

    Open AccessBo H W van Engelen, Lore Verheyen et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    Background: Childhood obesity is a significant public health issue linked to poor diet, low physical activity, and limited access to supportive environments. Green schoolyards may promote physical activity and improve health outcomes. This study evaluated the impact of the Green Healthy Primary School of the Future (GHPSF) intervention-greening schoolyards-on children's BMI z-scores, waist circumference, and hip circumference over 18 months, and …

  • Greening Schoolyards to Improve Child Health

    Open AccessBo H W van Engelen, Lore Verheyen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    This study is designed to provide evidence on the health impacts of greener schoolyards and contribute to strategies for promoting child development through environmental interventions

  • Personalised incentives for supporting tobacco cessation (Persist) among healthcare employees

    Open AccessNienke W Boderie, Frank J Van Lenthe et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2025

    The effectiveness of financial incentives for smoking cessation can be further enhanced by personalising incentives. We aimed to investigate the effect of personalised incentives on abstinence among health care employees who participated in a group-based smoking cessation training, but prematurely terminated the trial due to recruitment issues. All participants (n = 31; 14% of n = 220 required) underwent group-based smoking cessation training. Ba…

  • A realist evaluation of the implementation of a national tobacco control programme and policy in India

    Open AccessPragati Hebbar, Vivek Dsouza et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    There is a growing interest in studying and unpacking the implementation of policies and programmes as it provides an opportunity to reduce the policy translation time lag taken for research findings to translate into policies and be implemented and to understand why policies may fail. Realist evaluation is a theory-driven approach that embraces complexity and helps to identify the mechanisms generating the observed policy outcomes in a given con…

  • Relationship between physical activity during pregnancy and maternal health outcomes

    Open AccessYamuna Ana, Floor A van den Brand et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2025References: 1

    Background Sedentary behavior is one of the major modifiable behavioral risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Physical activity (PA) is crucial during pregnancy but pregnant women may become sedentary, leading to adverse health outcomes. Our study aimed to explore the association between social support and PA levels during pregnancy and the relationship between sedentary behavior and adverse pregnancy health outcomes including delivery. Met…

  • Economic burden of infectious diseases and its equity implications in Indian households

    Open AccessHabib Hasan Farooqui, Anup Karan et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2024

    Infectious diseases remain one of the major causes of health and economic burden for Indian households. Furthermore, the magnitude of economic losses on account of infectious disease episodes varies widely across rich and poor households. The primary objective of this research is to estimate the equity impact of infectious disease episodes on out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) and wage losses among Indian households. We analysed the Social Consumpt…

  • Undesirable Levels of Practice Behaviours and Associated Knowledge amongst Community Health Workers in Rural South India Responsible for Type 2 Diabetes Screening and Management

    Open AccessAnirudh Gaurang Gudlavalleti, Giridhara R Babu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    This study highlights widespread deficiencies (97% CHWs) in diabetes management practices and knowledge (95% CHWs). To overcome these deficiencies, a thorough needs assessments is vital for effective CHW training. Training of CHWs should not only identify prior knowledge and/or behaviour but also their interrelationship to help create a robust and flexible set of practice behaviours

  • Challenges in evaluating implementation and effectiveness in real-world settings

    Open AccessMarla T H Hahnraths, Maartje Willeboordse et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2023

    There are various research designs and approaches to investigate how health-promoting activities are implemented in complex, real-world systems, and to identify potential health effects that might occur following implementation. Although literature describes guidelines to perform and report about implementation research and effect evaluations, no specific guidelines exist on analysing and reporting about the combination of effectiveness data and …

  • Implementing health-promoting activities in diverse primary school contexts in the Netherlands

    Open AccessMarla T H Hahnraths, Maartje Willeboordse et al.ARTICLEHealth Education2023

    Purpose To gain insight into factors enhancing or obstructing implementation in various school-settings, which is vital for widespread dissemination and sustainable integration of school-based health-promoting interventions. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods multisite comparative case study to investigate (factors influencing) the implementation of health-promoting activities in twelve Dutch primary schools. Data were collected during t…

  • Shifting the gaze on implementation

    Open AccessPragati Hebbar, Upendra Bhojani et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    We find significant association between the implementation of tobacco control laws/programs and tobacco use in India. Our findings highlight the potential that policy implementation holds in reducing population-level tobacco use thus drawing attention towards the implementation phase of policies. The findings have implications on prioritising enforcement of specific tobacco control measures such as smokefree laws, modifying COTPA signages to enco…

  • The Adem2 project

    Open AccessSophie Kienhorst, Moniek H D van Aarle et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Netherlands Trial Register, NL7336, Date registered 11-10-2018

  • Health needs assessment for the double burden of malnutrition

    Open AccessVictoria von Salmuth, Lieke Buijs et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: The aim of this study is to explore nutrition-related health needs, the perceptions and beliefs regarding the double burden of malnutrition, as well as barriers and facilitators in accessing nutritious food among the local population in rural Tanzania. Design: A qualitative study design using semi-structured individual interviews and focus-group discussions (FGD) was used. Basic socio-demographic information was obtained from all parti…

  • How do tobacco control policies work in low-income and middle-income countries? A realist synthesis

    Open AccessPragati Hebbar, Vivek Dsouza et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: The burden of tobacco use is disproportionately high in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is scarce theorisation on what works with respect to implementation of tobacco control policies in these settings. Given the complex nature of tobacco control policy implementation, diversity in outcomes of widely implemented policies and the defining role of the context, we conducted a realist synthesis to examine tobacco control p…

  • Children’s Health Literacy in Relation to Their BMI z-Score, Food Intake, and Physical Activity

    Open AccessJany Rademakers, Marla T H Hahnraths et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Overweight and obesity in children are an increasing public health problem. Health literacy (HL) is a determinant of obesity and body mass index (BMI) rates in adults, but few studies have addressed the impact of children's own HL on their weight and lifestyle. In this study, we aim to assess the impact of Dutch children's HL on (1) their BMI z-score, (2) dietary behaviour, and (3) the amount of physical activity (PA) they engage in. A sample of …

  • The Short-Term Value of the “Healthy Primary School of the Future” Initiative

    Open AccessMarije Oosterhoff, Onno C P Van Schayck et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    Background: This study examines the social return on investment (SROI) of the ‘Healthy Primary School of the Future’ initiative after 2 years. Methods: Healthy Primary Schools of the Future (HPSF) provide a healthy lunch and daily structured physical activity sessions, whereas Physical Activity Schools (PAS) focus on physical activity only. We evaluated the 2-year investments and effects (N=1676 children) of both school environments (4 schools) c…

  • Invisible work, actors, and knowledge

    Open AccessAnna Wolters, Guido De Wert et al.ARTICLEBioSocieties2020

  • Lifetime cost-effectiveness and equity impacts of the Healthy Primary School of the Future initiative

    Open AccessMarije Oosterhoff, Eelco A B Over et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Clinicaltrials.gov ( NCT02800616 ). Registered 15 June 2016 - Retrospectively registered

  • Understanding self-construction of health among the slum dwellers of India

    Open AccessMoumita Das, F Angeli et al.ARTICLESociology of Health & Illness2020Cited by: 4References: 21

    Disembarking from a traditional approach of narrow hazardous environmental and structural conditions in understanding urban slums' health problems and moving towards a new notion of what constitutes health for slum dwellers will open a new avenue to recognise whether and how health is being prioritised in disadvantaged settings. Drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews with a total of 67 men and 68 women from Kolkata slums and 62 men and 48…

  • The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

    Open AccessPhilip J Landrigan, Richard Fuller et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Open AccessEsther A Boudewijns, Giridhara R Babu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2018

  • Dark clouds in co-creation, and their silver linings

    Open AccessPreeti Sushama, Cristian Ghergu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2018

    BACKGROUND: While any type of field-based research is challenging, building action-oriented, participatory research in resource-constrained settings can be even more so. OBJECTIVE: In this article, we aim to examine and provide insights into some of the practical challenges that were faced during the course of a participatory project based in two non-notified slums in Bangalore, India, aiming to build solutions to indoor air pollution from cookin…

  • Patterns of illness disclosure among Indian slum dwellers

    Open AccessMoumita Das, F Angeli et al.ARTICLEBMC International Health and…2018

    BACKGROUND: Slum dwellers display specific traits when it comes to disclosing their illnesses to professionals. The resulting actions lead to poor health-seeking behaviour and underutilisation of existing formal health facilities. The ways that slum people use to communicate their feelings about illness, the type of confidants that they choose, and the supportive and unsupportive social and cultural interactions to which they are exposed have not…

  • The gendered experience with respect to health-seeking behaviour in an urban slum of Kolkata, India

    Open AccessMoumita Das, F Angeli et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2018

    Our results suggest that both men and women utilise formal and informal care, but with different motives and expectations, leading to contrasting health-seeking outcomes. These gender-induced contrasts relate to a preference for socio-cultural (women) versus technological (men) therapies and long (women) versus fast (men) treatment, and are linked to their different societal and familial roles. The role of women in following and maintaining socio…

  • Does free or lower cost smoking cessation medication stimulate quitting? Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands and UK Surveys

    Floor A van den Brand, Gera E Nagelhout et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2018

    Free/lower cost smoking cessation medication may increase the use of cessation medication and stimulate quit attempts among smokers with low, moderate and high education and income