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The Use of Shear Wave Elastography to Estimate the Mechanical Properties of the Soft Tissues Surrounding the Proximal Femur
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Introduction: Falls are the leading cause of injury, morbidity, and mortality amongst older adults nationally and worldwide, with 95% resulting in hip fractures. Previous studies have found that the soft tissues (subcutaneous ... -
Use of Smart Technology Tools for Supporting Public Health Surveillance: From Development of a Mobile Health Platform to Application in Stress Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-10)BACKGROUND Traditional public health data collection methods are typically based on self-reported data and may be subject to limitations such as biases, delays between collection and reporting, costs, and logistics. These ... -
Use of the interRAI CHESS Scale to Predict Mortality among Persons with Neurological Conditions in Three Care Settings
(Public LIbrary of Science, 2014-06-10)Background: Persons with certain neurological conditions have higher mortality rates than the population without neurological conditions, but the risk factors for increased mortality within diagnostic groups are less well ... -
Using a collaborative research approach to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of mobile health interventions for older adults.
(JMIR Mhealth Uhealth., 2015-02-10)Background: Seniors with chronic diseases are often called on to self-manage their conditions. Mobile health (mHealth) tools may be a useful strategy to help seniors access health information at the point of decision-making, ... -
Using an interactive website to disseminate participatory ergonomics research findings: an exploratory study
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)Introduction: Researchers traditionally present the results of their research in academic journals and through conference presentations. Typically, individuals working outside of academia do not have access to traditional ... -
Using Decision Trees to Examine the Influence of the School Environment on Youth Mental Health
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Youth mental health is a current public health priority in Canada, with nearly one in four young people living with a mental illness. The contextual school environment can be particularly influential given the considerable ... -
Using Long Term Risk Factors from the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS) dataset to predict suicide admission and suicide severity among acute psychiatric inpatients in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between multidimensional long term suicide risk factors (LTRF) and short-term suicide related outcomes known as early warning signs (EWS) among a cross-section ... -
Using pattern recognition to detect differences in movement strategy between high and low relative biomechanical exposure lifts and lifters: Application to backboard lifting
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-13)Introduction: Backboard lifting is a demanding aspect of paramedic work that results in higher low back moments and sagittal trunk angles compared to other paramedic tasks. Movement strategy in a backboard lift affects ... -
Using Qualitative Methodologies to Explore the Lived Experience of Chronic Pain and Chronic Pain in the Workplace
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-23)Introduction: Chronic pain is a significant and challenging issue, impacting an increasingly large number of Canadians. The impacts from chronic pain are individually felt on a biological, psychological and sociological ... -
Utilizing Construction Safety Leading and Lagging Indicators to Measure Project Safety Performance: a case study
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-10)Background Construction accounts for 22% of all workplace fatalities in Ontario (Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada, 2015), although construction only accounts for 7% of Ontario’s workforce (Statistics ... -
Vaccinating pregnant women: Exploring midwive’s perspectives regarding vaccination in pregnancy in the Waterloo-Wellington Region.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-25)Background: Within the Canadian context midwives play a crucial role in providing prenatal care for pregnant women and this encompasses vaccine recommendations. Although administration of vaccines is outside midwives’ scope ... -
Validating a Global Measure of Severity in Children with Chronic Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-25)Background: Approximately 20% of children live with a chronic physical condition, such as asthma, epilepsy, or diabetes. These conditions place considerable burden on children, their families, clinicians, and the health ... -
Validity and Reliability of a Short Diet Questionnaire to Estimate Dietary Intake in Older Adults in a Subsample of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
(MDPI, 2018-10-17)This study assessed test-retest reliability and relative validity of the Short Diet Questionnaire (SDQ) and usability of an online 24 h recall among 232 participants (62 years ± 9.1; 49.6% female) from the Canadian ... -
The Value of Admission Clinical Data for Diagnosing Heart Failure in Long-term Care
(Canadian Geriatrics Society, 2013-12-03)Background Heart failure (HF) is common in long-term care (LTC). Diagnostic uncertainty is important barrier to optimal HF management, stemming from inadequate health information transfer upon LTC admission. We determine ... -
Variation of Force Amplitude and its Effects on Muscle Fatigue
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-20)Current trends in industry are leaning towards specialized production systems and sedentary computer work tasks that are associated with low and less varying mechanical exposures. It has been suggested that physical ... -
Vascular Aging: Influences on cerebral blood flow and executive function
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)An age-related decline in cerebral blood flow (CBF) is widely acknowledged. However, uncertainty exists as to whether this reduction is the result of a reduced metabolic demand (cerebral atrophy) or an impaired delivery ... -
A visitor experience scale: historic sites and museums
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-04)Since Pine and Gilmore (1999) proclaimed the arrival of the experience economy era, research on tourists’ experiences has become an area of growing interest among scholars and practitioners. Gaining knowledge of the ... -
Visitor Satisfaction at a Local Festival: An Importance-Performance Analysis of Oktoberfest
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-31)The aim of this research was to provide a practical method for assessing visitor satisfaction at a local festival. It is crucial for festival management to monitor and evaluate visitor satisfaction in order to understand ... -
Visual determinants of postural control and perception during physical and visual motion
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-30)The control of balance and posture is a critical task of daily life to limit the risk of falls and potential injury. In order to be successful in the control of balance the central nervous system utilizes sensory feedback ... -
Visual Inputs and Motor Outputs as Indivduals Walk Through Dynamically Changing Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-01)Walking around in dynamically changing environments require the integration of three of our sensory systems: visual, vestibular, and kinesethic. Vision is the only modality of these three sensory systems that provides ...