Frans Feron
Biographic Data
| ID | 5803962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frans Feron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frans |
| FAMILY NAME | Feron |
| SIGNATURE | FERON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9633-7921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How to deal with sickness absence among primary school pupils? Adaptation of the “Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students” intervention
Background: Missing school impacts both education and health. The purpose of this study was to address sickness absence in primary schools by adjusting the 'Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students' intervention for secondary schools. This was necessary because of fundamental differences in relation to the children's age and in the schools' organizational structure. Methods: The intervention mapping approach steps 1 through 4 were used to adapt …
Stakeholder perspectives on primary school pupils and sickness absence - exploring opportunities and challenges
School absenteeism and its underlying causes can have negative effects on the cognitive, psychosocial and health development of a child. Research in primary education shows high rates of sickness absence. Many stakeholders are involved in addressing school absenteeism, including primary school professionals, child and youth healthcare physicians, school attendance officers and parents. This study explores these stakeholders' perspectives, their a…
Process Evaluation of the Child and Youth Healthcare Intervention ‘Medical Advice for Sick-Reported Students in Primary School’ (Mass-PS)
School attendance is crucial for the development of a child. Sickness absence is the most common type of absenteeism and can be a red flag for underlying problems. To address sickness absence, the intervention Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students for Primary School (MASS-PS) was recently developed. It targets children at risk and is a school-based child and youth health care intervention. The present study is a process evaluation of the inte…
Two-level multi-methodological evaluation of a new complex primary support programme for stroke care-givers in Germany
Family care-givers are the backbone of the long-term support system for care receivers at home. Care for stroke survivors after rehabilitation primarily rests on the shoulders of family members, often of older age themselves. We report the outcomes of a new complex support programme, the Care-givers’ Guide, on both individual and system levels. Psycho-social support and personalised information were the main ingredients of this intervention. A tw…
Preschool Communication
Background: Adverse communication development in preschool children is a risk factor influencing child health and well-being with a negative impact on social participation. Language and social skills develop and maintain human adaptability over the life course. However, the accuracy of detecting language problems in asymptomatic children in primary care needs to be improved. Therefore, it is important to identify concerns about language developme…
The prevalence of sickness absence among primary school pupils – reason to be worried
The prevalence of extensive sickness absence was high, and as this was associated with other types of absence, these pupils missed even more days of school. Public health research, policy and practice should address sickness absence among primary school pupils, to prevent adverse effects on children's development
‘We are the advocates for the babies’ - understanding interactions between patients and health care providers during the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa
Background: HIV/AIDS has had a significant impact on maternal and child health in South Africa. It is thus of vital importance to implement interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) as early as possible during pregnancy. Negative interactions between patients and health care providers (HCPs) can be an important barrier to antenatal care, PMTCT use and PMTCT adherence. Research about respectful maternity care has focused…
Guideline use among different healthcare professionals in diagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Dutch children; who cares
Despite low general use of guidelines, psychiatrists, psychologists and paediatricians use similar key elements of ADHD guidelines. This study provides opportunities to improve care through increasing familiarity with ADHD guidelines and the use of standardized interviews
Addressing medical absenteeism in pre-vocational secondary students
The study provides first indications for the intervention to be effective for Dutch pre-vocational secondary students with increased medical absence rates. The intervention, which consists of personalised management of medical absenteeism by systematic identification of students with extensive medical absenteeism and consistent referral to youth health care physicians, appears to reduce the absence rates more effectively than "medical absenteeism…
Co-production of ICT and children at risk
Low control beliefs in relation to school dropout and poor health
Independent of the socioeconomic background, low control beliefs are related to heightened odds of both poor health and school dropout. Individual differences in control beliefs might thus be as fundamental as socioeconomic conditions in generating life-course socioeconomic and health-related pathways. Although the findings should first be cross-validated in prospective studies, public health professionals working with youth might already start c…
The early identification of risk factors on the pathway to school dropout in the Siodo study
The SIODO study will use a life-course perspective, the ICF-CY model to group the determinants and a mixed-methods design. In this respect, the SIODO study is innovative because it both broadens and deepens the study of health-related determinants of school dropout. It examines how these determinants contribute to socioeconomic and gender differences in health and contributes to the development of a tool that can be used in public health practice…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic and Social Factors and School Achievement in Boys and Girls
Previous work has shown that school achievement is lower in children living in poor neighborhoods. In this study, the authors hypothesized a role of neighborhood social capital. Data on 11-year-olds were obtained from the baseline measurements of a family cohort study ( n = 328). The data had a cross-level structure: neighborhood level, school level, and individual level. After including individual-level confounders, neighborhood socioeconomic di…
Mood in Daily Contexts
Disturbances in affect have been linked to problem behavior in adolescence and future psychopathology, but little is known about how such disturbances manifest themselves in everyday contexts. This study investigated daily mood in Dutch 7th graders, aged 11–14. Cluster analysis of problem measures distinguished high‐risk ( n =25) and low‐risk ( n =106) subgroups. Participants completed experience‐sampling reports of mood, social context, and loca…
Mood reactivity to daily negative events in early adolescence
Emotional responses to negative daily experiences in young adolescents may provide important clues to the development of psychopathology, but research is lacking. This study assessed momentary mood reactivity to daily events as a function of risk profile in a school sample, ages 11-14. High-risk (HR, n=25) and low-risk (LR, n=106) subgroups completed frequent self-reports of mood and events for 5 days. HR adolescents reported more negative events…
Children's health-related quality of life, neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation and social capital. A contextual analysis
Children's health-related quality of life, neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation and social capital. A contextual analysis
Mood reactivity to daily negative events in early adolescence
Emotional responses to negative daily experiences in young adolescents may provide important clues to the development of psychopathology, but research is lacking. This study assessed momentary mood reactivity to daily events as a function of risk profile in a school sample, ages 11-14. High-risk (HR, n=25) and low-risk (LR, n=106) subgroups completed frequent self-reports of mood and events for 5 days. HR adolescents reported more negative events…
Co-production of ICT and children at risk
Mood in Daily Contexts
Disturbances in affect have been linked to problem behavior in adolescence and future psychopathology, but little is known about how such disturbances manifest themselves in everyday contexts. This study investigated daily mood in Dutch 7th graders, aged 11–14. Cluster analysis of problem measures distinguished high‐risk ( n =25) and low‐risk ( n =106) subgroups. Participants completed experience‐sampling reports of mood, social context, and loca…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic and Social Factors and School Achievement in Boys and Girls
Previous work has shown that school achievement is lower in children living in poor neighborhoods. In this study, the authors hypothesized a role of neighborhood social capital. Data on 11-year-olds were obtained from the baseline measurements of a family cohort study ( n = 328). The data had a cross-level structure: neighborhood level, school level, and individual level. After including individual-level confounders, neighborhood socioeconomic di…
Children's health-related quality of life, neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation and social capital. A contextual analysis
Mood reactivity to daily negative events in early adolescence
Emotional responses to negative daily experiences in young adolescents may provide important clues to the development of psychopathology, but research is lacking. This study assessed momentary mood reactivity to daily events as a function of risk profile in a school sample, ages 11-14. High-risk (HR, n=25) and low-risk (LR, n=106) subgroups completed frequent self-reports of mood and events for 5 days. HR adolescents reported more negative events…
Mood in Daily Contexts
Disturbances in affect have been linked to problem behavior in adolescence and future psychopathology, but little is known about how such disturbances manifest themselves in everyday contexts. This study investigated daily mood in Dutch 7th graders, aged 11–14. Cluster analysis of problem measures distinguished high‐risk ( n =25) and low‐risk ( n =106) subgroups. Participants completed experience‐sampling reports of mood, social context, and loca…
Neighborhood Socioeconomic and Social Factors and School Achievement in Boys and Girls
Previous work has shown that school achievement is lower in children living in poor neighborhoods. In this study, the authors hypothesized a role of neighborhood social capital. Data on 11-year-olds were obtained from the baseline measurements of a family cohort study ( n = 328). The data had a cross-level structure: neighborhood level, school level, and individual level. After including individual-level confounders, neighborhood socioeconomic di…
The early identification of risk factors on the pathway to school dropout in the Siodo study
The SIODO study will use a life-course perspective, the ICF-CY model to group the determinants and a mixed-methods design. In this respect, the SIODO study is innovative because it both broadens and deepens the study of health-related determinants of school dropout. It examines how these determinants contribute to socioeconomic and gender differences in health and contributes to the development of a tool that can be used in public health practice…
Low control beliefs in relation to school dropout and poor health
Independent of the socioeconomic background, low control beliefs are related to heightened odds of both poor health and school dropout. Individual differences in control beliefs might thus be as fundamental as socioeconomic conditions in generating life-course socioeconomic and health-related pathways. Although the findings should first be cross-validated in prospective studies, public health professionals working with youth might already start c…
Co-production of ICT and children at risk
Addressing medical absenteeism in pre-vocational secondary students
The study provides first indications for the intervention to be effective for Dutch pre-vocational secondary students with increased medical absence rates. The intervention, which consists of personalised management of medical absenteeism by systematic identification of students with extensive medical absenteeism and consistent referral to youth health care physicians, appears to reduce the absence rates more effectively than "medical absenteeism…
‘We are the advocates for the babies’ - understanding interactions between patients and health care providers during the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa
Background: HIV/AIDS has had a significant impact on maternal and child health in South Africa. It is thus of vital importance to implement interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) as early as possible during pregnancy. Negative interactions between patients and health care providers (HCPs) can be an important barrier to antenatal care, PMTCT use and PMTCT adherence. Research about respectful maternity care has focused…
Guideline use among different healthcare professionals in diagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Dutch children; who cares
Despite low general use of guidelines, psychiatrists, psychologists and paediatricians use similar key elements of ADHD guidelines. This study provides opportunities to improve care through increasing familiarity with ADHD guidelines and the use of standardized interviews
Preschool Communication
Background: Adverse communication development in preschool children is a risk factor influencing child health and well-being with a negative impact on social participation. Language and social skills develop and maintain human adaptability over the life course. However, the accuracy of detecting language problems in asymptomatic children in primary care needs to be improved. Therefore, it is important to identify concerns about language developme…
The prevalence of sickness absence among primary school pupils – reason to be worried
The prevalence of extensive sickness absence was high, and as this was associated with other types of absence, these pupils missed even more days of school. Public health research, policy and practice should address sickness absence among primary school pupils, to prevent adverse effects on children's development
Process Evaluation of the Child and Youth Healthcare Intervention ‘Medical Advice for Sick-Reported Students in Primary School’ (Mass-PS)
School attendance is crucial for the development of a child. Sickness absence is the most common type of absenteeism and can be a red flag for underlying problems. To address sickness absence, the intervention Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students for Primary School (MASS-PS) was recently developed. It targets children at risk and is a school-based child and youth health care intervention. The present study is a process evaluation of the inte…
Two-level multi-methodological evaluation of a new complex primary support programme for stroke care-givers in Germany
Family care-givers are the backbone of the long-term support system for care receivers at home. Care for stroke survivors after rehabilitation primarily rests on the shoulders of family members, often of older age themselves. We report the outcomes of a new complex support programme, the Care-givers’ Guide, on both individual and system levels. Psycho-social support and personalised information were the main ingredients of this intervention. A tw…
How to deal with sickness absence among primary school pupils? Adaptation of the “Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students” intervention
Background: Missing school impacts both education and health. The purpose of this study was to address sickness absence in primary schools by adjusting the 'Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students' intervention for secondary schools. This was necessary because of fundamental differences in relation to the children's age and in the schools' organizational structure. Methods: The intervention mapping approach steps 1 through 4 were used to adapt …
Stakeholder perspectives on primary school pupils and sickness absence - exploring opportunities and challenges
School absenteeism and its underlying causes can have negative effects on the cognitive, psychosocial and health development of a child. Research in primary education shows high rates of sickness absence. Many stakeholders are involved in addressing school absenteeism, including primary school professionals, child and youth healthcare physicians, school attendance officers and parents. This study explores these stakeholders' perspectives, their a…
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Family medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)