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Kim, June (author)Anxiety is a natural “fight-or-flight” response that everybody experiences to perceived stress or threat. Even though it is a natural response, some individuals struggle with managing their anxiety levels in a healthy manner. Prolonged exposure to high anxiety states can lead to clinical anxiety disorders that negatively impact the quality of...master thesis 2023
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Janssen, Britt (author)Quantile regression is a useful method to analyse data such that the estimates are more robust to outliers and the conditional distributions are more reliable for asymmetric distributions with respect to the commonly used ordinary least squares regression. Besides this, the quantile regression analysis might also include extra information on the...bachelor thesis 2023
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Poot, Charlotte C. (author), Meijer, Eline (author), Bruil, Annet (author), Venema, Melanie (author), Vegt, N.J.H. (author), Donkel, Nicole (author), van Noort, Veronique (author), Chavannes, Niels H. (author), Roest, Arno A.W. (author)Background: Medical procedures can cause considerable stress and anxiety among children. Current interventions mainly diminish stress and anxiety during procedures, while stress and anxiety often build up at home. Moreover, interventions often focus on either distraction or preparation. eHealth can combine multiple strategies and provide a...journal article 2023
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Xing, Yuxin (author)Nowadays, mental illnesses are universal around the globe. However, compared with developed countries, the health budget assigned to mental health is much lower in low-income or developing countries (Mnookin et al., 2016). Even in China, a country with a large population, the epidemiological data on mental health (anxiety and depression) are too...master thesis 2022
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Yuan, Rui (author)Mental disorders are now becoming prevalent illnesses. More than 1 billion people globally were affected by mental and addictive disorders in 2016, which caused 7% of all global burden of disease (Rehm & Shield, 2019). Among those mental disorders, anxiety disorders and depression rank at the top. GAD is the most common...master thesis 2022
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Li, Wenhao (author)In healthcare, the doctor-patient interaction is most commonly held in the Consultation Room, which hasn't changed much over the last few decades. However, new technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, speech-to-speech translation, and so on are available now. These developments provide new opportunities to support all...master thesis 2022
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van den Bosch, Dominique (author)This study examines which factors in the behaviour of math teachers in their contact with high school students contribute to the developing, worsening or alleviating of math anxiety during mathematics activities. <br/>The study was conducted in the form of a survey involving $888$ high school students during their math lesson. The survey...master thesis 2022
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Rook, L. (author), Mazza, M.C. (author), Lefter, I. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)<b>Background</b>: Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) refers to extreme, uncontrollable, and persistent worry and anxiety. The disorder is known to affect the social functioning and well-being of millions of people, but despite its prevalence and burden to society, it has proven difficult to identify unique behavioral markers. Interestingly, the...journal article 2022
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Hafsteinsdóttir, Gudrun Birta (author)Covid-19 has had a major impact on mobility and especially on public transportation. In the Netherlands, the impact on public transport usage reduced up to 90% per day during the Covid-19 crisis compared to 2019. In June 2021, when travelling by public transport was allowed again, the usage was only half compared to a similar weekday in 2019. To...student report 2021
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Jansen, S.J.T. (author), Boumeester, H.J.F.M. (author), Rooij, R.M. (author)Research courses are part of many higher education curricula. However, students’ attitudes towards statistics and research courses tend to be negative. One way to measure students’ attitude is with the Revised-Attitudes Towards Research scale (R-ATR). The current study examined: (1) the internal reliability of the R-ATR, (2) the attitude of...journal article 2021
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Fragkaki, Iro (author), Maciejewski, Dominique F. (author), Weijman, Esther L. (author), Feltes, J. (author), Cima, Maaike (author)During the Covid-19 pandemic, the governments are trying to contain the spread with non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as social distancing rules, restrictions, and lockdowns. In an effort to identify factors that may influence population adherence to NPIs, we examined the role of optimism bias, anxiety, and perceived severity of...journal article 2021
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Mazza, Maria Chiara (author)Anxiety is one of the most widespread and dangerous mental health disorders in developed and underdeveoped countries, affecting a wide number of college students all over the world. If not correctly treated in time, it might procure irreparable damages in people’s life, leading to drastic consequenses such as depression and suicidal intentions....master thesis 2020
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Cucinella, Salvatore Luca (author)In the Intensive Care Units (ICU) patients are exposed to many, continuous and highly stressors, such as medical alarms, which contribute to the development of psychological issues, such as delirium, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). These psychological issues have a negative influence on the patients’ healing process...master thesis 2020
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Mashhoodi, B. (author), van der Blij, N.H. (author)Due to the sharp growth in the adaptation of electric vehicles (EV) in the Netherlands and the objectives of the Dutch Climate Accord is to encourage electric mobility, in the coming decades a substantial number of new EV charging facilities needs to be provided. Efficient planning of EV charging infrastructure is coupled with the notion of...journal article 2020
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Hartanto, D. (author)Social anxiety disorder (SAD), commonly referred to social phobia, is one of the most an immense and unreasonable fear of social interaction. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is the most thoroughly studied nonpharmacologic approach to the treatment of SAD patients. In CBT, patients are gradually, in <i>vivo</i>, exposed to anxiety-provoking...doctoral thesis 2019
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Koorneef, Lisa L. (author), Bogaards, Marit (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author), Meijer, Onno C. (author), Mahfouz, A.M.E.T.A. (author)Metabolic status impacts on the emotional brain to induce behavior that maintains energy balance. While hunger suppresses the fear circuitry to promote explorative food-seeking behavior, satiety or obesity may increase fear to prevent unnecessary risk-taking. Here we aimed to unravel which metabolic factors, that transfer information about...journal article 2018
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Patsey, Nina (author)This graduation project focuses on separation anxiety in dogs, a condition which causes distress for both the dog and its owner and can lead to a decision for relinquishing or euthanizing the dog. From the existing literature it was found that one of possible reasons dogs have this problem is excessive dependence on the owner. Therefore the goal...master thesis 2017
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Qu, C. (author), Ling, Y. (author), Heynderickx, I. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author)Bystanders in a real world's social setting have the ability to influence people’s beliefs and behavior. This study examines whether this effect can be recreated in a virtual environment, by exposing people to virtual bystanders in a classroom setting. Participants (n = 26) first witnessed virtual students answering questions from an English...journal article 2015
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Morina, N. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author), Hartanto, D. (author), Emmelkamp, P.M.G. (author)Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) has been shown to be effective in treatment of anxiety disorders. Yet, there is lack of research on the extent to which interaction between the individual and virtual humans can be successfully implanted to increase levels of anxiety for therapeutic purposes. This proof-of-concept pilot study aimed at...journal article 2014
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Hoekstra, A.R.D. (author)Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is an effective method to treat anxiety disorders and comes with many advantages over exposure in vivo, the latter being exposure in real-life. VRET is done by exposing patients gradually with their fear by using immersive virtual environments (VEs). Most attention in VRET research goes to visuals and less...master thesis 2013