Projects
The following projects were carried out by, or in cooperation with, the School of Health Sciences at the ZHAW.
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Building a global bridge in health professions
Motivation/Rational Given the rapid change in the health care capacity and demand land-scape globally, looking at international collaboration for health professional education is key to success to meet future challenges nurses and midwives will be confronted with. The School of Health Sciences ZHAW has engaged in ...
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Development and evaluation of a blended patient education and self-management program for patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease.
Background Self-management programs aim to improve patients’ abilities to cope with their chronic disease. However, validated and established programs for patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease (fILD) are missing. Goal We aim to develop a modern blended patient education and self-management program for ...
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Creating Inclusive Education: from the Perspectives of Children, Parents, Teachers and Others
Inclusive schools teach children skills to engage with each other and do things together in classrooms, playgrounds, and other places, disregarding differences in abilities, gender, race, class, and language. Education is contextualised within local systems, varying across socio-historical and cultural settings. ...
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National Nutrition Survey for children and adolescents
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SUPER-B: Supervised preoperative rehabilitation in patients scheduled for lumbar spinal surgery – A scoping review
Background: Prehabilitation before lumbar spine surgery may pose a valuable contribution to patients' perioperative pathways by improving physical capacity and reducing pain to withstand both, physical and mental stress caused by surgery. Reduced complication rates, faster recovery and sustainable patient-relevant ...
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The Course and Neuroplasticity in Neck Pain-Associated Disorders and Whiplash-Associated Disorders in the General Population
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Development and evaluation of a training app for people with mild cognitive impairment
Physical activity and training that comply with national and international physical activity recommendations have an undisputed positive effect on health, well-being, and quality of life, regardless of age and possible pre-existing conditions, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, behavioral change in ...
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Development and piloting of a memory notebook for people with mild cognitive impairment
This project aims to develop and pilot a memory notebook for people with mild cognitive impairment. The Memory Notebook is designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment to better structure their daily lives. The notebook is structured like an agenda and contains three sections per day. One section for ...
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ADHS-Digital: Testing of a «Roundtable-Boardgame»
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Family Outcome of Early Intervention
Background Family-centred practice, an approach in which intervention is directed at the whole family, is now considered "state of the art" in paediatric early intervention. Studies have shown that children develop best in a supportive family where the needs of all family members are addressed. The goal of ...