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Gender Differences in Chronic Disease Risk Behaviours and their Association with Body Mass Index: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Multilevel Analyses Among a Large Sample of Youth.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-20)Obesity has become a worldwide concern due to the escalating number of individuals who have overweight or obesity. The prevalence of overweight/obesity among youth aged 12-17 years old was 37% in 2012-2013, as reported in ... -
A gender-stratified, multilevel latent class assessment of chronic disease risk behaviours' association with Body Mass Index among youth in the COMPASS study
(Elsevier, 2019-09)This paper sought to examine chronic disease risk behaviour latent classes and their association with Body Mass Index (BMI), assessing for gender differences. Participants were youth (n = 116,086; grades 9–12) enrolled in ... -
Geriatric Medicine Leadership of Health Care Transformation: To Be or Not To Be?
(Canadian Geriatrics Society, 2013-12-03)Geriatric Medicine is well-suited to inform and lead healthcare system redesign to address the needs of seniors with complex conditions. We posit that geriatricians must urgently consider how to “brand” Geriatric Medicine ... -
Group vs Individual: Impact of TOUCH and TILT Cross-Device Interactions on Mixed-Focus Collaboration
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-04-28)Cross-device environments (XDEs) have been devel-oped to support a multitude of collaborative activities. Yet, little is known about how different cross-device in-teraction techniques impact group collaboration; in-cluding ... -
Hair cortisol concentration as a predictor of quality of life among children with mental disorder
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-08)Children living with mental disorder are at risk for lower health-related quality of life (HRQoL) than their healthy peers. Although hair cortisol concentration (HCC) is found to be elevated among individuals subjected to ... -
Health warnings, cannabis marketing and perceptions among youth and young adults in Canada.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)Background An increasing number of jurisdictions are legalizing nonmedical cannabis, including Canada in October 2018. One of the primary goals under the Cannabis Act is to adequately inform Canadians about nonmedical ... -
Health, Health Service Use and Informal Caregiver Distress among Older Korean Home Care Clients in Canada and Korea
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)Background: Immigration results in many different changes to life: diet, culture, lifestyle, and language (Hynie et al., 2011; Kim, 2006; Lee Kim, 2001). Immigration later in life is a stressful process for older adults ... -
Heart Failure in Older Persons: Considerations For The Primary Care Physician
(Canadian Geriatrics Society, 2012-04-18)Heart failure (HF) affects over 500,000 Canadians, with 50,000 new patients diagnosed each year. While mortality from cardiovascular diseases has progressively declined in Canada, the burden of HF is expected to continue ... -
High-Risk Medication Use, Frailty and Hospitalization among Older Assisted Living Residents
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-11)Background: With substantial comorbidity, high levels of medication use and age-related physiological changes, older adults are at an increased risk of drug-related errors and adverse events. Of particular concern are (i) ... -
Home, work and health in the Airbnb system
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-30)Background and Objectives: With Airbnb accommodation-sharing, a new form of entrepreneurial work is emerging and is disrupting traditional business practices. As a self-employed worker, the host lacks the protections under ... -
How do Syrian refugee women seek and find work? A feminist grounded analysis of work integration experiences in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-05)Close to 58,000 Syrian refugees have resettled in Canada since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. Half of these are women. When guaranteed income supports cease (provided for up to one year by governments and ... -
"I Would Just Want to Know What It's Being Used for and Who's Using It": Barriers to the Adoption of SmartSurveys
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-09)Objective: Smartphones stand to transform the manner healthcare services gather patient experience information. However, there is still limited guidance on the context and circumstances which are appropriate for patients ... -
Identifying Feasible Physical Activity Programs for Long-Term Care Homes in the Ontario Context
(Canadian Geriatrics Society, 2015-06-30)Background Structured exercise programs for frail institutionalized seniors have shown improvement in physical, functional, and psychological health of this population. However, the ‘feasibility’ of implementation of such ... -
Identifying patterns of alcohol use among secondary school students in Canada: A multilevel latent class analysis
(Elsevier, 2020-01)Harm from alcohol use depend not only on the volume of consumption but also on drinking patterns. This study identifies patterns of alcohol consumption in youth and investigates how these patterns vary across schools and ... -
The ignored consequences of obesity and nutrition policies: How a focus on weight influences psychosocial wellbeing
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)Background: Eating- and weight-related disorders, including eating disorders, disordered eating, and overweight and obesity, share many risk factors across all levels of the socioecological model. However, public health ... -
An Impact Evaluation of Clinical Pathways Management for Cerebral Infarction in a Rural Area in China
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)INTRODUCTION Given the challenge of addressing a growing non-communicable disease burden with limited health resources in developing countries, clinical pathways (CP) have been proposed as a strategy to optimize resource ... -
The Impact of Family Functioning on Child Mental Health Service Use and Access
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-31)In Canada, the prevalence of mental illness is high among young people with 13% of Canadian youth aged 15-24 years affected. This striking mental health burden warranted further investigation of the contextual (i.e., ... -
Impact of Occupational Hassles and Supervisory Style on Perceived Occupational Stress
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)The study of occupational stress and its effect on health has been the subject of increasing research and public awareness in the last twenty years. Research has identified a number of significant factors related to a ... -
The impact of price and nutrition labelling on sugary drink purchases: Results from an experimental marketplace study
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)To examine the effect of front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labelling and sugary drink taxation on consumer beverage purchases. A total of 675 respondents aged 16 years and older participated in an experimental marketplace ... -
Implementation of Ontario’s School Food and Beverage Policy (P/PM 150) in Peel Region: A Qualitative Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-18)INTRODUCTION: With obesity rates rising in Canada, schools have been identified as an ideal setting for health promotion interventions. Across the world, school nutrition policies have been implemented to try and improve ...