{"id":6141,"date":"2023-08-01T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/nieuws\/psychosocial-care-following-eye-removal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:04:06","slug":"psychosocial-care-following-eye-removal","status":"publish","type":"news_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/news\/psychosocial-care-following-eye-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychosocial Care Following Eye Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We can do much better!<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the National Contact Day in 2021, healthcare providers from UMC Utrecht discussed how they prepare patients at their hospital for eye removal surgery. Thorough information helps reduce patients\u2019 anxiety and enables them to resume their lives more smoothly after surgery. The OOG in OOG Association received indications that not every hospital has organized this psychosocial care as effectively as UMC Utrecht. That is why we recently distributed a questionnaire to our members to learn about their experiences in this regard. The conclusion of the survey: psychosocial care surrounding eye removal surgery could be significantly improved.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our August issue, you can read an article by researcher Huub Scholten about the results of the poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Psychosociale-ondersteuning-voor-en-na-een-oogverwijdering.docx-2.pdf\">Read the more detailed research report here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The removal of an eye is a life-changing event for people. It is therefore important to pay sufficient attention to the social and psychological consequences of such a procedure.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5714,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"class_list":["post-6141","news_pt","type-news_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_pt\/6141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}