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Acceptability of the interRAI Check-Up Self-Report Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) Tool: Evaluating Check-Up Acceptability in Assessing Care Needs of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Kampala District of Uganda
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-02)Background: The Ugandan healthcare system is ill-equipped to manage the emerging medical and social needs of its aging population. With the high burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), food insecurity, and the erosion ... -
Acceptance and Usage of Smart Wearable Devices in Canadian Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)Background: As the Canadian older adult population grows rapidly, emerging solutions and technologies that have the potential to enable aging-in-place are garnering more attention from developers, public policy makers and ... -
Accessing Indigenous Foods in Urban Northwestern Ontario: Women’s Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Resistance to Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-28)Indigenous populations living in urban northern Ontario have been repeatedly ignored in research regarding Indigenous Peoples food insecurity and food systems, despite the large proportion of Indigenous Peoples living in ... -
Accuracy of Parental Reporting of Preschoolers’ Dietary Intake Using an Online Self-Administered 24-h Recall
(MDPI, 2018-07-29)Parents are typically relied upon to report young children’s dietary intake. However, there has been limited research assessing the accuracy of such reports captured using novel dietary assessment tools. The purpose of the ... -
Activated Motivation: An Opportunity for HCI Research?
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-24)Self-Determination Theory [7, 13, 14] is a decades-old, widely-validated macro-theory that describes human motivation. Generally, it defines motivation on a spectrum ranging from amotivation, or a lack of motivation, to ... -
Addressing Health Care Needs For Frail Seniors In Canada: The Role of InterRAI Instruments
(Canadian Geriatrics Society, 2013-12-30)Fiscal pressure on the Canadian health care system results from rising numbers of frail seniors with multiple concurrent medical co-morbidities and geriatric syndromes. Improving outcomes in such seniors is contingent on ... -
Adolescent Maternal Nutrition and Health in Uganda: Voices from the Community
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)INTRODUCTION: Over one quarter of adolescent girls in rural Uganda and more than one fifth of them in the Busoga region of Eastern Uganda experience pregnancy and childbirth. These young mothers have disproportionately ... -
Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Cognitive Flexibility, and Depression
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-23)Depression is a serious and complex mental health disorder that is becoming increasingly prevalent, and is among the leading causes of global disease burden. Although depression is thought to be primarily an affective ... -
Advancing the evidence to improve the nutrition of populations: a refreshed vision and scope for Nutrition Journal
(Springer, 2017-07)This editorial introduces a revised and refreshed scope for Nutrition Journal, one of BioMed Central’s open access journals. Diet is among the leading risk factors for morbidity and mortality globally [1]. This signals the ... -
Adverse events among Ontario home care clients associated with emergency room visit or hospitalization: a retrospective cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2013-06-22)Background: Home care (HC) is a critical component of the ongoing restructuring of healthcare in Canada. It impacts three dimensions of healthcare delivery: primary healthcare, chronic disease management, and aging at home ... -
Adverse Events Associated with Hospitalization or Detected through the RAI-HC Assessment among Canadian Home Care Clients
(Longwoods Publishing, 2013-08-19)Background: The occurrence of adverse events (AEs) in care settings is a patient safety concern that has significant consequences across healthcare systems. Patient safety problems have been well documented in acute care ... -
Aging-related technologies: A multiple case study of innovation processes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)Introduction: As part of a Canadian research network focused on aging and technology – Aging Gracefully across Environments using technology to support Wellness, Engagement, and Long Life (AGE-WELL) – this thesis explored ... -
Alcohol and Select Medications as Fall Risk Factors in Community Dwelling Older Adults in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-04)Abstract Introduction: Falls are the leading cause of accidental injury in community dwelling older adults, often resulting in emergency room visits, hospitalization and early admission to long-term care. Studies have ... -
Alcohol use among Older Adults in Inpatient Psychiatry in Ontario: Individual and Community Factors Related to Problematic Use
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-18)Background: Alcohol use among older adults is usually not identifiable and could be mistaken for other medical or psychiatric conditions. As sometimes an underlying cause, problematic alcohol use (PAU) continues to impact ... -
Antecedents and Consequences Associated with Health Literacy or Health Numeracy in Adult Immigrants and Refugees: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)Background: Health literacy and health numeracy refer to skills that are fundamental and essential to fulfill health activities. Limited health literacy and numeracy levels have been associated with various poor health ... -
Application of interRAI Assessments in Disaster Management: Identifying Vulnerable Persons in the Community
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)Background: Several studies have shown the increased vulnerability and disproportionate mortality rate among frail community dwelling older adults as a result of disasters. Parallel to an escalating number of disasters, ... -
Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to Health Care for Women & Children in the Flood Plains of Western Zambia
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-16)At least half of the world’s population are reportedly unable to obtain essential health services with significant gaps being noted in sub–Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. Access to health services incorporates physical ... -
Applying systematic review search methods to the grey literature: a case study examining guidelines for school-based breakfast programs in Canada
(BioMedCentral, 2015-10-15)Grey literature is an important source of information for large-scale review syntheses. However, there are many characteristics of grey literature that make it difficult to search systematically. Further, there is no ... -
Applying the Allostatic Load Model to Investigate the Biological Embedding of Psychosocial Stress in Firefighters
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Overview Psychosocial factors are recognised as a significant source of stress in the workplace, and long-term exposure to such stressors may increase chronic disease risk through physiological wear and tear quantified ... -
Approaches to understanding and measuring women’s empowerment and its relationship with women’s and children’s dietary diversity in sub-Saharan Africa.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-02)Background Women’s empowerment has been identified as a key component of development policies since in many cases, there are existing and widening gender gaps in wellbeing including in access to improved nutrition ...