Martijn Huisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martijn Huisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Huisman |
| SIGNATURE | HUISMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amsterdam University Medical Centers |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9285-6759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 362 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A Taxonomy of Data Synthesis
As efforts to improve the credibility of psychological and other social sciences continue, researchers aim to conduct multi-study or multi-sample research and synthesize findings using different parameterizations of individual participant meta-analysis. No overarching organizational framework exists, and only a few simulation-based or empirical examples comparing these parameterizations. This article has two goals. First, we provide an overview o…
Affective Aspects of Religiousness and 6-Year Course of Depressive Symptoms in Aged Dutch Citizens
In prospective studies on religiousness and depressive symptoms, it remains unclear whether religiousness is a predictor or parallels the fluctuating course of depressive symptoms. The current study focuses on several affective aspects of religiousness in their associations over time with late life depressive symptoms. As part of the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, a subsample of 222 respondents (mean age 76.3 years) complete…
Two decades of end-of-life conditions of older adults: Older and more protracted
In non-cancer decedents, but not in cancer decedents, the dying process was more protracted in 2018 than in 2008. Level and increase in symptom severity did not improve over time for both cancer and non-cancer decedents, suggesting that improvement of palliative care is warranted for both groups
A coordinated analysis of bidirectional associations between life satisfaction and cognitive function
Life satisfaction is an important component of well-being to consider in relation to cognitive function due to its modifiability, potential utility in public health policy, and associations with cognitive health outcomes. However, little is known about the directionality of the association between life satisfaction and cognitive function, and past longitudinal work has yielded mixed findings. Using a coordinated data analytic approach, the curren…
Associations of personality trait level and change with mortality risk in 11 longitudinal studies
People who are higher in conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness and lower in neuroticism tend to live longer. The present research tested the hypothesis that personality trait change in middle and older adulthood would also be associated with mortality risk, above and beyond personality trait level. Personality trait change may causally influence mortality risk through corresponding changes in health behaviors, social processes, and s…
Finding a balance: Resilience in Older Adults After Depression in Later Life
Older adults who have had a major depressive disorder (MDD) have a high risk of relapse. Although risk factors for depression have been researched extensively, less is known about protective factors, and what experiences might strengthen subsequent resilience and help to prevent relapse. Therefore, this qualitative study explored factors of resilience in older adults who recovered from MDD and did not relapse across at least six years. Twenty-fiv…
The BigMove Intervention for People With Physical and Mental Health Conditions: A First Evaluation of Self-Perceived Health, Quality of Life, Coping and Mental and Social Functioning
This pilot study provides preliminary evidence that the intervention has positive effects on SPH, QoL, active coping behaviour, and mental and social functioning
Self-Reported Changes in Personal Development and Meaning in Life among Older Adults during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Results from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
Objectives. The aim of this study was to explore self-reported changes in personal development and meaning in life of older adults in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic and characteristics of the groups that reported these changes. Methods. Older adults from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam completed a questionnaire on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were asked to rate changes in personal development and meaning …
Personality traits and health care use: A coordinated analysis of 15 international samples
358,803). According to the synthesized results, people higher in conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and openness, and lower in neuroticism were more likely to visit the dentist; people higher in neuroticism were more likely to visit general medical practitioners; and people lower in conscientiousness and agreeableness and higher in neuroticism were more likely to be hospitalized. Associations tended to be small with odds ratios aroun…
Social and physical neighbourhood characteristics and 10-year incidence of depression and anxiety in older adults: Results from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
Sex and gender differences in depressive symptoms in older workers: The role of working conditions
Older female workers and older feminine workers have more depressive symptoms than their male/masculine counterparts. Autonomy and task variation appeared to be important in - partially - explaining gender differences in depressive symptoms rather than sex differences. By improving these conditions, gender inequality in mental health among older workers can be reduced, so that both genders have similar chances to reach the retirement age in good …
BigMove: A Group Intervention for People with Physical and Mental Health Conditions
For people with physical and mental health conditions, the intervention BigMove provides an innovative integrated care approach that addresses aspirations people have regarding their functioning and focuses on individual goal setting and behaviour change
The Disability Paradox? Trajectories of Well-Being in Older Adults With Functional Decline
Objectives: The 'disability paradox' (DP) suggests that most older adults maintain subjective well-being (SWB) despite functional decline. However, this may depend the SWB component: positive affect (PA), negative/depressed affect (NA/DA) or life satisfaction (LS). We assessed trajectories of these components in older adults with substantial functional decline. Methods: Data originated from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ( N = 2545) obser…
Long-Term Impact of Hurricane Sandy Exposure on Positive and Negative Affect: The Role of Perceived Social Support
Findings suggest that psychological effects may persist years after natural disasters and that more effective interventions may be needed during and after a disaster. While social support is critical to positive and negative affect in general, its buffering effects when disaster strikes may be limited
Social position of older immigrants in the Netherlands: Where do immigrants perceive themselves on the societal ladder
Older Turkish and Moroccan immigrants are often ascribed a low social position based on their relatively unfavourable educational level, occupational status and income. Yet immigrants emigrated to improve their social position and came from contexts where determinants of social position might be based on different socio-cultural circumstances than those used in the country of settlement. In order to understand immigrants’ own perception of their …
Worry about debt is related to social loneliness in older adults in the Netherlands
The amount of financial debt held by older adults has grown substantially over the past two decades in Europe. This study examines the association of objective and subjective debt burden with social and emotional loneliness among 1,606 older adults in the Netherlands. Objective debt burden is based on financial terms, such as debt-to-income ratio; whereas subjective debt burden measures the psychological distress caused by financial debt. Data ar…
The Alzheimer case: Perceptions, knowledge and the acquisition of information about Alzheimer's disease by middle-aged and older adults in Flanders
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major health concern as the world population ages. Yet, few studies have examined what the public over the age of 50 knows about AD. This qualitative study, based on 40 in-depth interviews, examines the knowledge of AD by Flemish people between 50 and 80 years old and their cross-source engagement with information sources. Building on AD media representations and theories on media complementarity and health informati…
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
Health on Wikipedia: A qualitative study of the attitudes, perceptions, and use of Wikipedia as a source of health information by middle-aged and older adults
Wikipedia is one of the most popular online sources of information on a wide range of topics, including health and medical affairs. While a large body of research examines Wikipedia’s factual accuracy, few studies look at user perceptions and the actual use of the online encyclopaedia. Previous work has mostly explored students’ use of Wikipedia, but little is known about the attitudes of older generations of Internet users towards the online enc…
Inequalities in Frailty Among Older Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants and Native Dutch: Data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
Very few studies have investigated frailty among older immigrants in Europe. The aim of the current study was to investigate inequalities in frailty in young-olds related to gender, educational level and country of origin, as well as intersections between these characteristics. Cross-sectional data were used from older Turkish and Moroccan immigrants (n = 466) and native Dutch (n = 1,020), all aged 55-65 years and participating in the Longitudina…
Changes in the role of explanatory factors for socioeconomic inequalities in physical performance: A comparative study of three birth cohorts
Inequalities in smoking, binge alcohol use, emotional support and mastery may have become more important for explaining SIH in recent cohorts of middle-aged adults. Policies that aim to reduce socioeconomic inequalities may need to adapt their targets of intervention to changing mechanisms in order to reduce SIH
Socioeconomic pathways to inequalities in mental and functional health: A comparative study of three birth cohorts
The role of education in determining inequalities in health appears to have changed across cohorts. While education became a less important determinant of income, it became a more important determinant of occupational level. This changing role of education in producing health inequalities should be considered in research and policy
Steeling or Sensitizing? A Longitudinal Examination of How Ongoing Accumulation of Negative Life Events Affects Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
As a population, older adults appear to become more resilient against new stressors as they accumulate experience in dealing with negative life events. Findings on mastery tentatively suggest that accepting limits to one's own control over life circumstances may foster a steeling effect
Social and physical neighbourhood characteristics and loneliness among older adults: Results from the MINDMAP project
Background Loneliness is associated with several adverse mental and physical health outcomes in older adults. Previous studies have shown that a variety of individual-level and perceived area-level characteristics are associated with loneliness. This study examined the associations of objectively measured social and physical neighbourhood characteristics with loneliness. Methods We used cross-sectional data from 1959 older adults (63–98 years) wh…
Aircraft noise control policy and mental health: A natural experiment based on the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (Lasa)
Background This study examines the impact of environmental noise policy on depressive symptoms by exploiting the national experiment afforded by the New Deal aircraft noise control policy introduced in Schiphol (Amsterdam) in 2008. Methods Data came from older adults (ages 57–102) participating in three waves (2005/2006, 2008/2009 and 2011/2012) of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) (N=1746). Aircraft noise data from the Netherlands En…
Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity among the elderly; a European overview
Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: A comparison of 23 European countries
The object of this study was to determine whether the magnitude of educational health inequalities varies between European countries with different welfare regimes. The data source is based on the first and second wave of the European Social Survey. The first health indicator describes people's mental and physical health in general, while the second reports cases of any limiting longstanding illness. Educational inequalities in health were measur…
Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among elderly people in 11 European populations
Study objective: To describe mortality inequalities related to education and housing tenure in 11 European populations and to describe the age pattern of relative and absolute socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in the elderly European population. Design and Methods: Data from mortality registries linked with population census data of 11 countries and regions of Europe were acquired for the beginning of the 1990s. Indicators of socioeconomic …
A European comparative study of marital status and socio-economic inequalities in suicide
The Contribution of Specific Diseases to Educational Disparities in Disability-Free Life Expectancy
Objectives. We examined the contribution that specific diseases, as causes of both death and disability, make to educational disparities in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE). Methods. We used disability data from the Belgian Health Interview Survey (1997) and mortality data from the National Mortality Follow-Up Study (1991–1996) to assess education-related disparities in DFLE and to partition these differences into additive contributions of …
Why do poor people perceive poor neighbourhoods? The role of objective neighbourhood features and psychosocial factors
Cognitive functioning among Dutch older adults: Do neighborhood socioeconomic status and urbanity matter
Misperception of self-reported adherence to the fruit, vegetable and fish guidelines in older Dutch adults
Somatic Multimorbidity and Self-rated Health in the Older Population
Our findings help to improve understanding of the impact multimorbidity has on SRH: Having a single disease increases the chance of poor health more than each co-occurring disease, indicating some overlap between diseases or adaptation to declining health
The contribution of job characteristics to socioeconomic inequalities in incidence of myocardial infarction
Household and food shopping environments: Do they play a role in socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable consumption? A multilevel study among Dutch adults
BACKGROUND: Fruit and vegetables are protective of a number of chronic diseases; however, their intakes have been shown to vary by socioeconomic position (SEP). Household and food shopping environmental factors are thought to contribute to these differences. To determine whether household and food shopping environmental factors are associated with fruit and vegetable (FV) intakes, and contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in FV consumption. ME…
Longitudinal Examination of Emotional Functioning in Older Adults After Spousal Bereavement
An increase in emotional loneliness was the most commonly observed change after spousal bereavement. This highlights the central role of emotional loneliness in depression after bereavement
Income inequality, social capital and self-inflicted injury and violence-related mortality
BACKGROUND: The objective of the study was to investigate the relation of income inequality and indicators of social capital to self-inflicted injury mortality (suicide) and violence-related mortality, and to the share of total mortality that is due to these two causes of death in 35 developed countries. METHODS: An ecological study including 30 European countries, including former communist countries, and five developed countries from other part…
Parental psychopathology and socioeconomic position predict adolescent offspring's mental health independently and do not interact: The TRAILS study
BACKGROUND: Familial risk factors have been implicated in the development of mental health problems in adolescents. Whether the associations between parental loading, as assessed by lifetime psychopathology, and offspring internalising and externalising problems were moderated by family socioeconomic position (SEP) was investigated. Two hypotheses of moderation were tested: (1) the "social push" hypothesis in which parental loading effects are st…
Social and physical neighbourhood characteristics and 10-year incidence of depression and anxiety in older adults: Results from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
Searching for Health: Doctor Google and the Shifting Dynamics of the Middle-Aged and Older Adult Patient–Physician Relationship and Interaction
Objectives: While online health information (OHI) has become ubiquitous, little is known about its use by middle-aged and older adults. This contribution examines the role of OHI and its influence on the patient-physician relationship. Method: This qualitative study reports the thematic analysis of 40 semistructured, in-depth interviews with Flemish middle-aged and older adults between the ages of 50 and 80 years. Results: Middle-aged and older a…
Associations of neighbourhood sociodemographic characteristics with depressive and anxiety symptoms in older age: Results from a 5-wave study over 15 years
We examined the long-term association between objective neighbourhood sociodemographic characteristics (index of socioeconomic position (SEP), average income, percent low-income earners, average house price, percent immigrants and urban density) with depressive and anxiety symptoms, covering five 3-year waves of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (n = 3,772). Multi-level regression models assessed each neighbourhood-level characteristic separ…
The Linkage Between Aging, Migration, and Resilience: Resilience in the Life of Older Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants
The study illustrates a link between conditions across life stages, migration, and resilience. Resilient immigrants are better able to accumulate financial and social and other resources across life stages, whereas less resilient immigrants lose access to resources in different life stages
Year Trends in Life Expectancy in Good and Poor Physical and Cognitive Health at Age 65 Years in the Netherlands, 1993–2016
Objectives. To examine 23-year trends in both physically and cognitively healthy life expectancy from age 65 years in the Netherlands. Methods. We used 8 waves between 1993 and 2016 from the nationally representative Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (12 948 observations). We calculated physically and cognitively healthy life expectancies by using the Sullivan life table method and tested prevalence trends over time by using generalized estimati…
The Effects of Life Events and Socioeconomic Position in Childhood and Adulthood on Successful Aging
SEP and particular stressful life events are largely, but not entirely independent predictors of SA. We found that high and low SEP may increase exposure to particular events that negatively affect SA. Findings suggest that low (childhood) SEP and stressful life events are interrelated factors that may limit individual opportunities to age successfully
Is Self-Rated Health Still Sensitive for Changes in Disease and Functioning Among Nonagenarians
SRH among nonagenarians was sensitive to changes in the number of chronic conditions and functioning although more pronounced on the longer than on the shorter term
The Disability Paradox? Trajectories of Well-Being in Older Adults With Functional Decline
Objectives: The 'disability paradox' (DP) suggests that most older adults maintain subjective well-being (SWB) despite functional decline. However, this may depend the SWB component: positive affect (PA), negative/depressed affect (NA/DA) or life satisfaction (LS). We assessed trajectories of these components in older adults with substantial functional decline. Methods: Data originated from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ( N = 2545) obser…
Steeling or Sensitizing? A Longitudinal Examination of How Ongoing Accumulation of Negative Life Events Affects Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
As a population, older adults appear to become more resilient against new stressors as they accumulate experience in dealing with negative life events. Findings on mastery tentatively suggest that accepting limits to one's own control over life circumstances may foster a steeling effect
Green spaces, subjective health and depressed affect in middle-aged and older adults: A cross-country comparison of four European cohorts
BACKGROUND: Studies on associations between urban green space and mental health have yielded mixed results. This study examines associations of green space exposures with subjective health and depressed affect of middle-aged and older adults in four European cohorts. METHODS: Data came from four Western-European and Central-European ageing cohorts harmonised as part of the Mindmap project, comprising 16 189 adults with an average age of 50-71 yea…
Regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods and indicators of functioning in older adults: A quasi-experimental evaluation of the Dutch District Approach
Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity among the elderly; a European overview
Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among elderly people in 11 European populations
Study objective: To describe mortality inequalities related to education and housing tenure in 11 European populations and to describe the age pattern of relative and absolute socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in the elderly European population. Design and Methods: Data from mortality registries linked with population census data of 11 countries and regions of Europe were acquired for the beginning of the 1990s. Indicators of socioeconomic …
Inequalities in the prevalence of smoking in the European Union: Comparing education and income
Socio-economic inequalities in suicide: A European comparative study
BACKGROUND: Social factors have been shown to be predictors of suicide. It is not known whether these factors vary between countries. AIMS: To present a first European overview of socio-economic inequalities in suicide mortality among men and women. METHOD: We used a prospective follow-up of censuses matched with vital statistics in ten European populations. Directly standardised rates of suicide were computed for each country. RESULTS: In men, a…
Educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in middle-aged and older men and women in eight western European populations
Educational inequalities in smoking among men and women aged 16 years and older in 11 European countries
Preventing and reducing smoking among lower educated subgroups should be a priority of policies aiming to reduce inequalities in health in Europe. If steps are not taken to control tobacco use among the lower educated groups specifically, inequalities in lung cancer and other smoking related diseases should be anticipated in all populations of the European Union, and both sexes
The Contribution of Specific Diseases to Educational Disparities in Disability-Free Life Expectancy
Objectives. We examined the contribution that specific diseases, as causes of both death and disability, make to educational disparities in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE). Methods. We used disability data from the Belgian Health Interview Survey (1997) and mortality data from the National Mortality Follow-Up Study (1991–1996) to assess education-related disparities in DFLE and to partition these differences into additive contributions of …
A European comparative study of marital status and socio-economic inequalities in suicide
Using relative and absolute measures for monitoring health inequalities: Experiences from cross-national analyses on maternal and child health
Our study shows that both absolute and relative inequality measures can be meaningful for monitoring inequalities, provided that the overall level of the outcome is taken into account. Suggestions are given on how to do this. In addition, our paper presents data that can be used for benchmarking of inequalities in the field of maternal and child health in low and middle-income countries
King Saul, work-related stress and depression
The story of King Saul in the Bible provides a good example of a man suffering from depression, and I believe that the story fits well with current scientific understanding of the role of work-related stress as a determinant of depression.1 2 According to Karasek’s job stress model, a combination of high demands and low control at work will lead to psychological stress,3 which can eventually lead to chronic disease, including psychopathology. Sev…
Health inequalities according to educational level in different welfare regimes: A comparison of 23 European countries
The object of this study was to determine whether the magnitude of educational health inequalities varies between European countries with different welfare regimes. The data source is based on the first and second wave of the European Social Survey. The first health indicator describes people's mental and physical health in general, while the second reports cases of any limiting longstanding illness. Educational inequalities in health were measur…
The contribution of job characteristics to socioeconomic inequalities in incidence of myocardial infarction
Household and food shopping environments: Do they play a role in socioeconomic inequalities in fruit and vegetable consumption? A multilevel study among Dutch adults
BACKGROUND: Fruit and vegetables are protective of a number of chronic diseases; however, their intakes have been shown to vary by socioeconomic position (SEP). Household and food shopping environmental factors are thought to contribute to these differences. To determine whether household and food shopping environmental factors are associated with fruit and vegetable (FV) intakes, and contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in FV consumption. ME…
Income inequality, social capital and self-inflicted injury and violence-related mortality
BACKGROUND: The objective of the study was to investigate the relation of income inequality and indicators of social capital to self-inflicted injury mortality (suicide) and violence-related mortality, and to the share of total mortality that is due to these two causes of death in 35 developed countries. METHODS: An ecological study including 30 European countries, including former communist countries, and five developed countries from other part…
Intelligence is negatively associated with the number of functional somatic symptoms
BACKGROUND: Functional somatic symptoms (FSS), that is, symptoms that cannot be conclusively explained by organic pathology, have a poorly understood aetiology. Intelligence was studied as a risk factor for FSS. It was hypothesised that intelligence is negatively associated with the number of FSS. To investigate the specific role of intelligence in FSS as opposed to medically explained symptoms (MES), the association of intelligence with FSS was …
A commentary on Marja Jylhä's “What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model”(69: (3, 2009, 307–316)
Why do poor people perceive poor neighbourhoods? The role of objective neighbourhood features and psychosocial factors
Cohort Profile: The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) was initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Welfare, Health and Culture (currently Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports). By the end of the 1980s, ministry officials recognized that ageing would be a major demographic driving force, shaping the need for health care in the Dutch population in the near future. Therefore, they became increasingly interested in the process of ageing and ageing-related determ…
Somatic Multimorbidity and Self-rated Health in the Older Population
Our findings help to improve understanding of the impact multimorbidity has on SRH: Having a single disease increases the chance of poor health more than each co-occurring disease, indicating some overlap between diseases or adaptation to declining health
Do Positive Psychological Characteristics Modify the Associations of Physical Performance With Functional Decline and Institutionalization? Findings From the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
Positive psychological characteristics, related to sense of control, play a role in the transition between stages in the disablement process. Specific psychological characteristics may be associated with different stages of the disablement process and may in turn be affected by disablement
Parental psychopathology and socioeconomic position predict adolescent offspring's mental health independently and do not interact: The TRAILS study
BACKGROUND: Familial risk factors have been implicated in the development of mental health problems in adolescents. Whether the associations between parental loading, as assessed by lifetime psychopathology, and offspring internalising and externalising problems were moderated by family socioeconomic position (SEP) was investigated. Two hypotheses of moderation were tested: (1) the "social push" hypothesis in which parental loading effects are st…
A comparison of Dutch frail older adults in 1998 and 2008: Prevalences and determinants
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Wie is de Ander? De representatie van Japan in het Nederlandse televisieprogramma Wie is de Mol? (2010)
Lost in representation? A discourse analysis of Japan and the Japanese in the Dutch television show ‘Wie is de Mol?’ Lost in representation? A discourse analysis of Japan and the Japanese in the Dutch television show ‘Wie is de Mol?’ In 2010 the popular Dutch reality television show ‘Wie is de Mol?’ took ten Dutch celebrities to Japan. Applying discourse analysis, this article explores the representation of Japan and its culture as portrayed in t…
Is Self-Rated Health Still Sensitive for Changes in Disease and Functioning Among Nonagenarians
SRH among nonagenarians was sensitive to changes in the number of chronic conditions and functioning although more pronounced on the longer than on the shorter term
Perceived control in health care: A conceptual model based on experiences of frail older adults
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