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"I Will Not Drink With You Today": A Topic-Guided Thematic Analysis of Addiction Recovery on Reddit
(ACM, 2022-04)Recovery from addiction is a journey that requires a lifetime of support from a strong network of peers. Many people seek out this support through online communities, like those on Reddit. However, as these communities ... -
"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 ... -
"I'm not alone in that battle": Designing Immersive Visualizations for Community Awareness and Connectedness
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Community connectedness is a concept used by health practitioners and researchers to understand perceptions of: support from the community, belonging and issues, and as a protective measure for many individual health ... -
Identification of Re-assessment Intervals to Support a Measurement Based Care (MBC) approach with the interRAI Community Mental Health (CMH) Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-09)Background: Mental health is a fundamental aspect of people’s health and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Ineffectively treated mental health problems could result in a shorter life expectancy as a result of ... -
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 ... -
Immigrant women’s perceptions of cervical cancer prevention strategies in Ontario, Canada: A framework-informed qualitative analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)Background: In Ontario, it is recommended that people with a cervix who are sexually active and over the age of 21 have a Papanicolaou (Pap) test every three years and that students in grade seven receive the human ... -
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 assistive devices on community-dwelling older adults and their informal caregivers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-12)Background Canadians are aging and living longer with chronic conditions, multimorbidity, and disabilities, which can have negative impacts on the health and quality of life of both older adults and their informal ... -
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 ... -
Implementing new nutrition care practices in healthcare: learning from the experience of health professionals in hospitals and Family Health Teams.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-06)Background: When converting evidence into practice to improve patient care, application of implementation, behaviour change and change management theory can help make the changes more effective and sustained. With a third ... -
Improving Spaces for Women First Responders: Investigating women’s occupational experiences using a comparative grounded theory
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-10)Background: First response work has historically been designed for and performed by men; yet more women than ever are conducting this work. Research suggests women first responders face unequal access to resources and ... -
In Danger? An Exploration of Canadian Truck Drivers’ Health through the Canadian Community Health Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Background: There exists substantive evidence showing that the health status of truck drivers from the United States (US) is much poorer than the general US population. Comparatively there is much less research on Canadian ... -
Incidence, Distribution, and Risk Factors of Five Major Enteric Diseases Commonly Transmitted by Food in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Enteric diseases are a major public health concern in both developing and developed countries, including Canada. Studies examining enteric disease distributions in different parts of Canada show temporal, regional, and ... -
Infection Prevention and Control Through Hospital-Based Oral Care: Barriers and Facilitators to Providing and Documenting Oral Care in Acute Care Units
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-11)Oral care, key component of nursing care, has a significant effect on the prevalence of hospital-acquired pneumonias. Despite the connection between oral care and hospital-acquired pneumonias, oral care nursing practices ... -
Influence of front-of-package nutrition labels on beverage healthiness perceptions: Results from a randomized experiment
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)The current study explored the influence of three summary indicator front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labels on consumer perceptions of the healthiness of different beverage products. In 2016, a total of 675 respondents in ...