Minne Fekkes

Summary

Affiliation: TNO Prevention and Health
Country: The Netherlands

Publications

  1. ncbi Health-related quality of life in relation to gender and age in couples planning IVF treatment
    M Fekkes
    TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, PO Box 2215, 2301 CE, The Netherlands
    Hum Reprod 18:1536-43. 2003
  2. ncbi Bullying: who does what, when and where? Involvement of children, teachers and parents in bullying behavior
    M Fekkes
    TNO Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research Prevention and Health, PO Box 2215, 2301 CE Leiden, The Netherlands
    Health Educ Res 20:81-91. 2005
  3. ncbi Development and psychometric evaluation of the TAPQOL: a health-related quality of life instrument for 1-5-year-old children
    M Fekkes
    Child Health Division, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Qual Life Res 9:961-72. 2000
  4. ncbi Bullying behavior and associations with psychosomatic complaints and depression in victims
    Minne Fekkes
    Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research Division Prevention and Health TNO PG, Leiden, and Municipal Health Service GGD, West Brabant, Breda, The Netherlands
    J Pediatr 144:17-22. 2004
  5. ncbi Do bullied children get ill, or do ill children get bullied? A prospective cohort study on the relationship between bullying and health-related symptoms
    Minne Fekkes
    Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research TNO, Quality of Life, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Pediatrics 117:1568-74. 2006
  6. ncbi Effects of antibullying school program on bullying and health complaints
    Minne Fekkes
    Youth Department, TNO Prevention and Health, 2301 CE Leiden, The Netherlands
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:638-44. 2006
  7. ncbi Unidimensionality and reliability under Mokken scaling of the Dutch language version of the SF-36
    P G M van der Heijden
    Department of Statistics, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Qual Life Res 12:189-98. 2003
  8. ncbi Are age references for waist circumference, hip circumference and waist-hip ratio in Dutch children useful in clinical practice?
    A Miranda Fredriks
    TNO Prevention and Health, 2215, 2301 CE, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Eur J Pediatr 164:216-22. 2005
  9. ncbi Development, problem behavior, and quality of life in a population based sample of eight-year-old children with Down syndrome
    Helma B M van Gameren-Oosterom
    Department Child Health, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands
    PLoS ONE 6:e21879. 2011

Detail Information

Publications9

  1. ncbi Health-related quality of life in relation to gender and age in couples planning IVF treatment
    M Fekkes
    TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, PO Box 2215, 2301 CE, The Netherlands
    Hum Reprod 18:1536-43. 2003
    ..Specific subgroups of people planning IVF might be at risk of having more psychological or health-related problems. Identification of subgroups at risk may better enable allocation of appropriate counselling...
  2. ncbi Bullying: who does what, when and where? Involvement of children, teachers and parents in bullying behavior
    M Fekkes
    TNO Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research Prevention and Health, PO Box 2215, 2301 CE Leiden, The Netherlands
    Health Educ Res 20:81-91. 2005
    ..In addition, teachers need to learn effective ways to deal with bullying incidents. Schools need to adopt a whole-school approach with their anti-bullying interventions...
  3. ncbi Development and psychometric evaluation of the TAPQOL: a health-related quality of life instrument for 1-5-year-old children
    M Fekkes
    Child Health Division, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Qual Life Res 9:961-72. 2000
    ..This study shows that the TAPQOL is a reliable and valid parent's perception of HRQoL in preschool children. More research is needed to evaluate the psychometric performance of the TAPQOL in different clinical populations...
  4. ncbi Bullying behavior and associations with psychosomatic complaints and depression in victims
    Minne Fekkes
    Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research Division Prevention and Health TNO PG, Leiden, and Municipal Health Service GGD, West Brabant, Breda, The Netherlands
    J Pediatr 144:17-22. 2004
    ..Subsequently, risks for psychosomatic symptoms and depression were calculated by means of odds ratios...
  5. ncbi Do bullied children get ill, or do ill children get bullied? A prospective cohort study on the relationship between bullying and health-related symptoms
    Minne Fekkes
    Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research TNO, Quality of Life, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Pediatrics 117:1568-74. 2006
    ..In our present study, we investigated whether victimization precedes psychosomatic and psychosocial symptoms or whether these symptoms precede victimization...
  6. ncbi Effects of antibullying school program on bullying and health complaints
    Minne Fekkes
    Youth Department, TNO Prevention and Health, 2301 CE Leiden, The Netherlands
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:638-44. 2006
    ..To evaluate the effects of an antibullying school intervention in elementary schools...
  7. ncbi Unidimensionality and reliability under Mokken scaling of the Dutch language version of the SF-36
    P G M van der Heijden
    Department of Statistics, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Qual Life Res 12:189-98. 2003
    ..70), but that only physical functioning can be used for clinical applications of quality of life (alpha > 0.90). The relative merits of our approach are discussed...
  8. ncbi Are age references for waist circumference, hip circumference and waist-hip ratio in Dutch children useful in clinical practice?
    A Miranda Fredriks
    TNO Prevention and Health, 2215, 2301 CE, Leiden, The Netherlands
    Eur J Pediatr 164:216-22. 2005
    ..35, P <0.01). CONCLUSION: Waist circumferences can be used to screen for increased abdominal fat mass in children, whereby a cut-off point of 1.3 standard deviation score seems most suitable...
  9. ncbi Development, problem behavior, and quality of life in a population based sample of eight-year-old children with Down syndrome
    Helma B M van Gameren-Oosterom
    Department Child Health, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands
    PLoS ONE 6:e21879. 2011
    ..Developmental outcomes were compared with normative data of eight-year-old children from the general population...