Teachers, loosen up! How teachers can trigger interpersonally cooperative behavior in students at risk of academic failure

Education and Child Studie

When closeness is effortful: teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions

Education and Child Studie

NEOnatal Central-venous Line Observational study on Thrombosis (NEOCLOT): evaluation of a national guideline on management of neonatal catheter-related thrombosis

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NEOnatal Central-venous Line Observational study on Thrombosis (NEOCLOT): Evaluation of a national guideline on management of neonatal catheter-related thrombosis

Background: In critically ill (preterm) neonates, central venous catheters (CVCs) are increasingly used for administration of medication or parenteral nutrition. A serious complication, however, is the development of catheter-related thrombosis (CVC-thrombosis), which may resolve by itself or cause severe complications. Due to lack of evidence, management of neonatal CVC-thrombosis varies among neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). In the Netherlands an expert-based national management guideline has been developed which is implemented in all 10 NICUs in 2014. Methods: The NEOCLOT study is a multicentre prospective observational cohort study, including 150 preterm and term infants (0-6 months) admitted to one of the 10 NICUs, developing CVC-thrombosis. Patient characteristics, thrombosis characteristics, risk factors, treatment strategies and outcome measures will be collected in a web-based database. Management of CVC-thrombosis will be performed as recommended in the protocol. Violations of the protocol will be noted. Primary outcome measures are a composite efficacy outcome consisting of death due to CVC-thrombosis and recurrent thrombosis, and a safety outcome consisting of the incidence of major bleedings during therapy. Secondary outcomes include individual components of primary efficacy outcome, clinically relevant non-major and minor bleedings and the frequency of risk factors, protocol variations, residual thrombosis and post thrombotic syndrome. Discussion: The NEOCLOT study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of the new, national, neonatal CVC-thrombosis guideline. Furthermore, risk factors as well as long-term consequences of CVC-thrombosis will be analysed

Is desire to eat in response to positive emotions an 'obese' eating style: Is Kummerspeck for some people a misnomer?

Contains fulltext : 157510.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)Is desire to eat in response to positive emotions an 'obese' eating style: a style more prevalent in people with obesity? In other words: Is Kummerspeck (German: sorrow-fat) for some people a misnomer? This question was addressed in three studies on women. Study 1 (n = 188) tested the moderator effect of subjective well-being on the association of BMI with the scale on desire to eat in response to negative emotions (DEBQ-E). Study 2 tested in women (n = 832) whether items on desire to eat in response to positive emotions loaded on the same factor as those in response to negative emotions and body mass. Study 3 assessed in the total sample (n = 203) and an overweight subsample (n = 40) a) whether self-reported desire to eat in response to positive emotions predicted actual food intake and b) whether this also held true over and above self-reported desire to eat in response to negative emotions. Study 1 showed only for women with low positive affect a significant positive association of BMI with DEBQ-E. In Study 2, only items on desire to eat in response to negative emotions loaded on the same factor as BMI. Study 3: In the total sample, the significant effect on food intake of the scale on desire to eat in response to positive emotions disappeared when a scale on desire to eat in response to negative emotions was added to the model. In the overweight-subsample there was only an effect on food intake for desire to eat in response to negative emotions. It is concluded that only desire to eat in response to negative emotions is an 'obese' eating style, suggesting that Kummerspeck is not a misnomer.11 p

A Quantitative Exploration of Two Teachers with Contrasting Emotions: Intra-Individual Process Analysesof Physiologyand Interpersonal Behavior

Although the association between teacher-student relations,teacher emotions,and burnout has been proven on a general level, we do not know the exact processes underlying these associations. Recently there has beena call for intra-individual process measures that assess what happensfrom moment-to-momentin classin order to better understand inter-individual differences in emotions and burnout between teachers. This paper exploredthe use of processmeasuresof teachers’ heart rate and their interpersonal behavior during teaching. Our aimwas to illustrate different ways of analyzing and combining physiological and observational time-series dataand to explore their potential for understanding between-teacher differences. In this illustration,we focusedon two teachers who representedcontrasting cases in terms of their self-reported teaching-related emotions (i.e., anxiety and relaxation) and burnout. We discuss both univariate process analyses (i.e., trend, autocorrelation, stability) as well as state-of-the-art multivariateprocessanalyses (i.e., cross-correlations, dynamic structural equation modeling). Resultsillustrate how the two teachers differed in the natureoftheir physiological responses, theirinterpersonal behavior,and the association between these two process measuresover time. Along implications and suggestions for further research, it is discussed howthe process-based, dynamic assessment of physiology and interpersonal behavior mayultimately help to understand differences inmore general teaching-relatedemotions and burnout