R Sanderman
Biographic Data
| ID | 330497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Sanderman |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanderman |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0823-1159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Relations between trajectories of weight loss and changes in psychological health over a period of 2 years following bariatric metabolic surgery
Patients following the most favourable weight loss trajectory may not manifest psychologically favourable outcomes (i.e., Worsening depression), and preoperative characteristics do not consistently describe post-surgical BMI trajectories. Clinicians should tend to patients' mental wellbeing besides weight loss post-BMS. The study findings emphasize the significance of incorporating psychological health as an essential component of surgical outcom…
Does willingness to care fluctuate over time? A weekly diary study among informal caregivers
OBJECTIVE: Informal caregivers are expected to be willing to care for relatives with care needs. Little is known about whether and how willingness to care changes over time. Using a weekly diary study, we examined changes in the willingness of 955 caregivers from nine countries. Caregivers provided information on their caregiving context, relationship type, and relationship satisfaction with the care recipient. METHODS AND MEASURES: For 24 consec…
The associations of dyadic coping strategies with caregivers' willingness to care and burden: A weekly diary study
This weekly diary study investigated associations of weekly dyadic coping strategies with caregivers' willingness to care and burden. Multilevel modelling was applied to assess between- and within-person associations for 24 consecutive weeks in 955 caregivers. Greater willingness to care was reported in weeks when caregivers used more collaborative ( b = 0.26, p < 0.001) and supportive ( b = 0.30, p < 0.001) strategies, whereas uninvolved coping …
Attachment style and post-bariatric surgery health behaviours: The mediating role of self-esteem and health self-efficacy
BARIA: Netherlands Trial Register: NL5837 (NTR5992) https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/5837 . Diabaria: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03330756
The interpersonal process model of intimacy, burden and communal motivation to care in a multinational group of informal caregivers
The interpersonal process model of intimacy suggests that intimacy within dyads develops when open communication from one dyad member is met with validating, understanding and caring responses from the other dyad member. Little is known about interpersonal processes between informal caregivers and care recipients in different illness contexts (i.e., coping with neurological, physical or other impairments/comorbidities) and relationship types (i.e…
Trajectories of fatigue in cancer patients during psychological care
OBJECTIVE: Psycho-oncological institutions offer specialized care for cancer patients. Little is known how this care might impact fatigue. This study aimed to identify fatigue trajectories during psychological care, examined factors distinguishing these trajectories and predicted fatigue severity after nine months of psychological care. DESIGN: Naturalistic, longitudinal study of 238 cancer patients receiving psycho-oncological care in the Nether…
Tailoring eHealth design to support the self-care needs of patients with cardiovascular diseases: A vignette survey experiment
Self-care support is a key cornerstone of treatment for patients with a cardiovascular disease. The success of any supportive intervention requires adaptation to the distinct needs of individuals. This requirement also applies to eHealth interventions. This study investigates how experts from multiple fields of science assess the potential success of different eHealth design strategies when matched to key self-care needs. An online vignette surve…
A Multinational Longitudinal Study Incorporating Intensive Methods to Examine Caregiver Experiences in the Context of Chronic Health Conditions: Protocol of the ENTWINE-iCohort
Informal caregivers are those who provide unpaid care to a relative or friend with a chronic illness, disability or other long-lasting health or care need. Providing informal care in the context of chronic health conditions presents a significant global challenge. Examination of the determinants of informal caregivers' behaviour, especially in terms of motivations and willingness to provide/receive care, is crucial to understanding the nature of …
Delivering mindfulness in the classroom via a technology-enabled approach: Feasibility and the potential impact on teachers' psychological well-being, self-efficacy, and mindfulness
Providing emergency remote teaching: What are teachers’ needs and what could have helped them to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
When schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, teachers suddenly had to teach remotely. To better understand the possible impact of these measures on teachers' work functioning and well-being, this study examined teachers' needs. Using a thematic analysis approach analyzing the 1,115 open-ended answers, three domains related to needs were identified: work-life balance and working from home , teaching and interaction with students…
Effects of home confinement on mental health and lifestyle behaviours during the Covid-19 outbreak: Insight from the ECLB-Covid19 multicenter study
Although recognised as effective measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, social distancing and self-isolation have been suggested to generate a burden throughout the population. To provide scientific data to help identify risk factors for the psychosocial strain during the COVID-19 outbreak, an international cross-disciplinary online survey was circulated in April 2020. This report outlines the mental, emotional and behavioural cons…
Compassion-based interventions for people with long-term physical conditions: A mixed methods systematic review
Psychosocial Effects and Use of Communication Technologies during Home Confinement in the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy and The Netherlands
(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic forced people from all around the globe to strongly modify their daily routines, putting a significant strain on the social aspects of daily lives. While the first wave of the pandemic was a very challenging time in all countries, it is still uncertain whether various lockdown intensities and infection rates differed regarding their psychosocial impact. This work therefore aimed to investigate (i) the psychos…
Sleep Quality and Physical Activity as Predictors of Mental Wellbeing Variance in Older Adults during Covid-19 Lockdown: ECLB Covid-19 International Online Survey
COVID-19 lockdown deleteriously affected physical activity and sleep patterns. Furthermore, change in the total PSQI score and total physical activity energy expenditure were significant predictors for the decrease in mental wellbeing
Perceptions of professionals regarding interventions involving family members responsible for justice-involved youth with substance use disorders in Santiago, Chile
The negative perceptions of professionals regarding the interventions as well as families and family contexts of justice-involved youth, and the lack of support from other programmes, induced feelings of hopelessness and pessimism amongst the professionals regarding the effectiveness of the Chilean National Drug Treatment Programme. It is essential to consider professionals' perspectives not only to benefit from their expertise, but also to asses…
Effects of Covid-19 Home Confinement on Eating Behaviour and Physical Activity: Results of the ECLB-Covid19 International Online Survey
Background: Public health recommendations and governmental measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in numerous restrictions on daily living including social distancing, isolation and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to abate the spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on health behaviours and lifestyles at home is undefined. Therefore, an international online survey was launched in April 2020, in s…
Psychological consequences of Covid-19 home confinement: The ECLB-Covid19 multicenter study
Background Public health recommendations and government measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have enforced restrictions on daily-living. While these measures are imperative to abate the spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on mental health and emotional wellbeing is undefined. Therefore, an international online survey (ECLB-COVID19) was launched on April 6, 2020 in seven languages to elucidate the impact of COVID-19 restrictio…
Covid-19 Home Confinement Negatively Impacts Social Participation and Life Satisfaction: A Worldwide Multicenter Study
These preliminary findings elucidate the risk of psychosocial strain during the early COVID-19 home confinement period in 2020. Therefore, in order to mitigate the negative psychosocial effects of home confinement, implementation of national strategies focused on promoting social inclusion through a technology-based solution is strongly suggested
Compassion for Others and Self-Compassion: Levels, Correlates, and Relationship with Psychological Well-being
Compassion for others and self-compassion are assumed to be closely related concepts. Yet, as they have been mostly studied separately, little is known about their relationship and to what extent they differ or resemble each other with respect to their correlates. This cross-sectional study aimed to gain knowledge on their mean levels, interrelationship, and relationships to psychological well-being and demographic factors. A community sample of …
Study protocol for a non-inferiority trial of a blended smoking cessation treatment versus face-to-face treatment (LiveSmokefree-Study)
Nederlands Trialregister NTR5113 . Registered 24 March 2015
Goal adjustment strategies operationalised and empirically examined in adolescents with cancer
Adolescents facing cancer may need to adjust their personal life goals. Theories identified several goal adjustment strategies, but their use has not been tested. Therefore, this study operationalises goal adjustment strategies and examines their use. Adolescent cancer patients listed their goals 3 and 12 months post-diagnosis. Goals received scores on five goal characteristics: life domain, level of abstraction, importance, attainability and eff…
A Reconsideration of the Self-Compassion Scale’s Total Score: Self-Compassion versus Self-Criticism
The Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) is currently the only self-report instrument to measure self-compassion. The SCS is widely used despite the limited evidence for the scale's psychometric properties, with validation studies commonly performed in college students. The current study examined the factor structure, reliability, and construct validity of the SCS in a large representative sample from the community. The study was conducted in 1,736 person…
Mutual reinforcement between neuroticism and life experiences: A five-wave, 16-year study to test reciprocal causation
High neuroticism predicts psychopathology and physical health problems. Nongenetic factors, including major life events and experiences, explain approximately half of the variance in neuroticism. Conversely, neuroticism also predicts these life experiences. In this study, we aimed to quantify the reciprocal causation between neuroticism and life experiences and to gauge the magnitude and persistence of these associations. This longitudinal cohort…
Ineffectiveness of Reverse Wording of Questionnaire Items: Let’s Learn from Cows in the Rain
OBJECTIVE: We examined the effectiveness of reverse worded items as a means of reducing or preventing response bias. We first distinguished between several types of response bias that are often confused in literature. We next developed arguments why reversing items is probably never a good way to address response bias. We proposed testing whether reverse wording affects response bias with item-level data from the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventor…
Cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depressive symptoms in patients with diabetes: Design of a randomized controlled trial
Clinical Trials NCT01630512
The measurement of social support in the 'European research on incapacitating diseases and social support: The development of the Social Support Questionnaire for Transactions (SSQT)
An international study on measuring social support: Interactions and satisfaction
Socioeconomic inequity in health care: A study of services utilization in Curaçao
Mutual reinforcement between neuroticism and life experiences: A five-wave, 16-year study to test reciprocal causation
High neuroticism predicts psychopathology and physical health problems. Nongenetic factors, including major life events and experiences, explain approximately half of the variance in neuroticism. Conversely, neuroticism also predicts these life experiences. In this study, we aimed to quantify the reciprocal causation between neuroticism and life experiences and to gauge the magnitude and persistence of these associations. This longitudinal cohort…
The role of social support and self-esteem in the presence and course of depressive symptoms: A Comparison of Cancer Patients and Individuals From the General Population
Measuring both negative and positive reactions to giving care to cancer patients: Psychometric qualities of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA)
The adaptive role of perceived control before and after cancer diagnosis: A prospective study
Low control beliefs, classical coronary risk factors, and socio-economic differences in heart disease in older persons
Providing emergency remote teaching: What are teachers’ needs and what could have helped them to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
When schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, teachers suddenly had to teach remotely. To better understand the possible impact of these measures on teachers' work functioning and well-being, this study examined teachers' needs. Using a thematic analysis approach analyzing the 1,115 open-ended answers, three domains related to needs were identified: work-life balance and working from home , teaching and interaction with students…
Adjustment to cancer in the 8 years following diagnosis: A longitudinal study comparing cancer survivors with healthy individuals
The Mediating Role of Perceived Control on the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Functional Changes in Older Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
Using a prospective design, this study examines the mediating effect of perceived control in explaining the predictive role of socioeconomic status (SES) in long-term changes in functional status as a consequence of the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD). We followed 221 older CHD patients by using a community-based survey. We collected data on patients' functional status before the onset of disease and 1 year after the diagnosis. Multipl…
The Role of Perceived Control in the Process of Older Peoples' Recovery of Physical Functions After Fall-Related Injuries: A Prospective Study
This study examined the predictive role of perceived control in recovery of physical functions after fall-related injuries in a cohort of 165 older people who had completed preinjury baseline assessments including physical functioning and perceived control. Follow-up assessments of functioning were made at 8 weeks, 5 months, and 12 months. Indicators for perceived control were mastery and self-efficacy expectations. Physical functioning referred …
The interpersonal process model of intimacy, burden and communal motivation to care in a multinational group of informal caregivers
The interpersonal process model of intimacy suggests that intimacy within dyads develops when open communication from one dyad member is met with validating, understanding and caring responses from the other dyad member. Little is known about interpersonal processes between informal caregivers and care recipients in different illness contexts (i.e., coping with neurological, physical or other impairments/comorbidities) and relationship types (i.e…
The role of premorbid psychological attributes in short- and long-term adjustment after cardiac disease. A prospective study in the elderly in The Netherlands
The Groningen Activity Restriction Scale for measuring disability: Its utility in international comparisons
OBJECTIVES. The Groningen Activity Restriction Scale (GARS) is a non-disease-specific instrument to measure disability in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). It was developed in studies of Dutch samples consisting of elderly or chronically ill people. The psychometric properties of the GARS demonstrated in these studies were highly satisfactory. This paper addresses the psychometric properties of t…
Risk and Protective Factors of Different Functional Trajectories in Older Persons: Are These the Same
We examined whether risk and protective factors of different functional trajectories were the same in 1,765 Dutch older persons. We assessed disability in 1993 and reassessed it in 2001. For 2001 as compared with 1993, we distinguished three trajectory groups: substantially poorer, somewhat poorer, and no change or better functioning. We assessed sociodemographic, health, and psychosocial potential risk or protective factors in 1993. When we anal…
Consequences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure: The relationship between objective and subjective health
Distressed or relieved? Psychological side effects of breast cancer screening in The Netherlands
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To assess the psychological impact of mammographic screening on women with non-malignant outcomes after attending the Netherlands' National Breast Cancer Screening Programme. DESIGN: During one year all women with false positive test results (95) in a screening area were invited for the study. Each false positive was matched with two women with normal mammograms with respect to age and municipality. A random reference group of 4…
Causal Attributions, Real Life-Events and Personality Characteristics: A Preliminary Study
The learned-helplessness model has been given much attention recently. In this article some issues are briefly reviewed, the main purpose of this study was, however, to determine the relationship between causal attributions and personality characteristics, symptoms and feelings of well-being. Although causal attribution style is considered a trait-like concept, this can not be substantiated by the results of the current study. It is concluded tha…
Long-Term Stability of the Rational Behavior Inventory and the General Health Questionnaire
For scores of a community sample of 230 adults (120 men, 110 women) rs over 17 mo. were .40 and .78 for the General Health Questionnaire and Rational Behavior Inventory, respectively
Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Personality: The Netherlands and England
401 men and 475 women completed the Dutch version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Factor comparisons all exceeded 0.97 so that the factors of Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Social Desirability are deemed to be identical in the two countries, England and The Netherlands. Sex differences conform with those in most other cross-cultural studies, namely, men score higher than women on Psychoticism and Extraversion, but lower on…
The Groningen Activity Restriction Scale for measuring disability: Its utility in international comparisons
OBJECTIVES. The Groningen Activity Restriction Scale (GARS) is a non-disease-specific instrument to measure disability in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). It was developed in studies of Dutch samples consisting of elderly or chronically ill people. The psychometric properties of the GARS demonstrated in these studies were highly satisfactory. This paper addresses the psychometric properties of t…
The measurement of social support in the 'European research on incapacitating diseases and social support: The development of the Social Support Questionnaire for Transactions (SSQT)
A comparison of two multidimensional measures of health status: The Nottingham Health Profile and the Rand 36-Item Health Survey 1.0
An international study on measuring social support: Interactions and satisfaction
Measuring health status with the Dartmouth Coop charts in low-functioning elderly. Do the illustrations affect the outcomes
Gender roles in relation to assertiveness and eysenckian personality dimensions: Replication with a spanish population sample
Distressed or relieved? Psychological side effects of breast cancer screening in The Netherlands
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To assess the psychological impact of mammographic screening on women with non-malignant outcomes after attending the Netherlands' National Breast Cancer Screening Programme. DESIGN: During one year all women with false positive test results (95) in a screening area were invited for the study. Each false positive was matched with two women with normal mammograms with respect to age and municipality. A random reference group of 4…
Socioeconomic inequity in health care: A study of services utilization in Curaçao
Translation, Validation, and Norming of the Dutch Language Version of the SF-36 Health Survey in Community and Chronic Disease Populations
Neuroticism and Reactions to Social Comparison Information Among Cancer Patients
In an experimental study neuroticism was examined as a moderator of breast cancer patients’ affective reactions to social comparison information about a fellow patient. Fifty‐seven women with breast cancer completed Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire and received social comparison information about a fellow patient who was either doing better (upward condition) or worse (downward condition) than themselves. As expected, patients showed more posi…
Measuring both negative and positive reactions to giving care to cancer patients: Psychometric qualities of the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA)
The evaluation of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale: Depressed and Positive Affect in cancer patients and healthy reference subjects
Functional decline after congestive heart failure and acute myocardial infarction and the impact of psychological attributes. A prospective study
Social Predictors of Recovery in Late Middle-Aged and Older Persons After Injury to the Extremities: A Prospective Study
Patients recovering from fall-related injuries who had reported high levels of social support before their injury had recovered better at 5 and 12 months. Encouragement and special attention given by health professionals to maintain social support may be beneficial for rehabilitation after fall-related injuries in older persons
Pre-morbid predictors of psychological adjustment to cancer
An English Language Version of the Social Support List: Preliminary Reliability
The 34-item Social Support List developed in The Netherlands combines measures of support satisfaction and support interactions in six subscales plus a total score. The present study was designed to assess the applicability of the list in a different cultural context. Data from 421 American undergraduates were consistent with Dutch findings and support the efficacy of the English language version
The Role of Perceived Control in the Process of Older Peoples' Recovery of Physical Functions After Fall-Related Injuries: A Prospective Study
This study examined the predictive role of perceived control in recovery of physical functions after fall-related injuries in a cohort of 165 older people who had completed preinjury baseline assessments including physical functioning and perceived control. Follow-up assessments of functioning were made at 8 weeks, 5 months, and 12 months. Indicators for perceived control were mastery and self-efficacy expectations. Physical functioning referred …
Structure and Reliability of Ware’s Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire III: Patients’ Satisfaction With Oncological Care in the Netherlands
BACKGROUND: The present study examined the structure and reliability of the Dutch version of the Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire III (PSQ III). The PSQ III was designed to measure technical competence, interpersonal manner, communication, time spent with doctor, financial aspects, and access to care. In the Dutch version, the financial items were left aside because these are not appropriate for the Dutch socialized system. OBJECTIVES: The main…
The role of social support and self-esteem in the presence and course of depressive symptoms: A Comparison of Cancer Patients and Individuals From the General Population
Functional Ability, Social Support, and Depression in Rheumatoid Arthritis
The Relative Contribution of Domains of Quality of Life to Overall Quality of Life for Different Chronic Diseases
The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Self-Reported Physical Functioning in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Chronic Heart Failure
In this study, the authors investigated whether self-reported physical functioning of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic systolic heart failure (CHF) was primarily explained by illness-specific differences related to diagnosis or whether more generic factors also contributed to their physical functioning. Consecutive patients with COPD (n = 56; mean age = 67.8, SD = 8.5) and CHF (n = 65; mean age = 60.0, SD = 1…
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