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- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Joanna Szabo
- Date issued
- 2020
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- ABSTRACT Purpose: The experiences of parents caring for the complex care needs of children with rare neurodevelopmental disorders are not well understood. Parents struggle to meet their children’s medical, behavioural, and social needs within and across health, social, and family systems. The purpose of this study was to explore the parents’ experience of caring for medical and social care needs for children with rare neurodevelopmental disorders. Methods: Hermeneutic phenomenology was used for the data analysis. Fifteen parents participated in semi-structured interviews. Results: Interpretive analysis revealed four insights: (a) difference in children’s behaviours and disease...
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- article
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- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Tatiane Piucco; Julia Phillips; Jordan Finnie; Andrew Rados; Ricardo Dantas de Lucas
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- The aim of this study was to assess the physiological and neuromuscular responses at critical skating intensity on a slide board and to investigate the correlations between critical cadence (CC) and skating performances on ice. 13 well-trained speed skaters (19.8±4.2 years, 69.6±9.06 kg) performed a maximal skating incremental test (IT) on a slide board. CC was determined from 3 to 4 trials to exhaustion lasting from 3.1 ± 0.7 to 13.9 ± 3.1 min, using linear and hyperbolic mathematical fittings. A time to exhaustion test at CC (TTE-CC) was performed. CC values (55.3±5.0 ppm) were significantly higher than cadence at the respiratory compensation point (RCP) (53.5±4.0 ppm). Mean duration of...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Joanna Szabo
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- Background: Parent experiences of caring for children with neurodevelopmental disease have been silenced and constrained by social, political and health influences. There is a need to co‐construct new meanings and interpretations of parenting a child with complex disabilities by having an increased understanding of the struggles and barriers for parents. Methods: A hermeneutic phenomenology approach was applied in this inquiry. Fifteen parents of children with rare neurodevelopmental diseases participated in semi‐structured interviews. Results: Parents experienced silencing or being silenced within interactions with health‐care and social care systems and providers. Interpretive thematic...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Mohamed El Hussein; Vince Salyers; Joseph Osuji
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- Background: Patients’ health needs require detailed knowledge of diseases and the associated pathophysiology to understand and manage their complex care. Nurses rely on concepts from anatomy, physiology, microbiology, and pathophysiology to ground their practice. While knowledge of disease processes is a critical requirements for competent practice nursing, students often struggle with learning and applying pathophysiology concepts to clinical practice. Method: A novel teaching innovation known as “Visual Narrative Illustrations” (VNI) was piloted in a pathophysiology course. Students (n=75), participated in two phases of exploratory study that analyzed the impact of VNI on students’...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jill A. Parnell; Hailey Lafave; Kim Wagner-Jones; Robyn F. Madden; Kelly Anne Erdman
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- Background - Exercise induced gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms can plague athletes, especially runners. Sport nutrition recommendations are nutrient rather than foods focused and do not adequately address strategies to reduce GI symptoms. The objective was to develop a valid and reliable questionnaire to evaluate pre-training and pre-racing voluntary food restrictions/choices, reasons for avoiding foods, and gastrointestinal symptoms in endurance runners. Methods - Validity testing occurred through four Registered Dietitians, three of whom possess Master’s degrees, and a dietetic trainee who provided initial feedback. Additionally, one Registered Dietitian is a Board Certified Specialist in...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Sonya L. Jakubec; Marg Olfert; Liza L. S. Choi; Nicole Dawe; Dwayne Sheehan
- Date issued
- 2019
- Description
- While much has been explored about notions of both place and belonging in regard to community health of various populations , little is known of the phenomena specific to suburban dwelling seniors. More and more seniors are living in suburban neighborhoods, communities that do not tend well to the belonging needs of this population. This qualitative study sought the perspectives of suburban dwelling seniors about the role of belonging and community connection to their health and wellbeing. Informed by strengths-based approaches to community development and health, the study engaged people from three community groups of older adults in a Canadian suburb (a seniors' recreational/social...
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- article
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- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Cynthia J. Gallop
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- The first year of social work practice can be very stressful for new practitioners. Practice develops in response to the meaning we place on what we do and on our professional goals. Having a better understanding of how new graduates navigate the transition from idealized work to real practice is important if the profession is going to improve the overall self-efficacy, happiness, and commitment of social workers. In this paper, I discuss some of the findings from research that utilized philosophical hermeneutics as an approach to understand how newly graduated social workers, educated in a critical tradition, experience their practice. Critical social workers described their practice as...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Joanna Szabo; Bev Mathison; Sonya L. Jakubec; Sonya Flessati; Genevieve Currie
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- A pilot research project turned ongoing program sought to explore the experience of participating in an inclusive Campus Community Garden. In the confines of institutional research the project undertook a specific focus on uncovering the perceived benefits and barriers to participating preschoolers, older adults, individuals with mixed abilities and their caregivers from residential and intermediate care facilities. This paper describes a parallel exploration as an occurrent act of art making; an evolving rhizomatic process of poetic reflection on images and privileged notes from the field. In this work, the authors uncover the shape, movement, and colour of the joy/sorrow of tilling the...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Charlotte A. Ross; Sonya L. Jakubec; Nicole S. Berry; Victoria Smye
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- We undertook an institutional ethnography utilizing the expert knowledge of nurses who have experienced substance-use problems to discover: (a) What are the discourses embedded in the talk among nurses in their everyday work worlds that socially organize their substance-use practices and (b) how do those discourses manage these activities? Data collection included interviews, researcher reflexivity, and texts that were critically analyzed with a focus on institutional features. Analysis revealed dominant moralistic and individuated discourses in nurses’ workplace talk that socially organized their substance-use practices, subordinated and silenced experiences of work stress, and erased...
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- article
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- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Aliyah Dosani; Shahirose S. Premji; Sandra M. Reilly; Abhay K. Lodha; Marilyn Young
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Background:Public health nurses (PHNs) care for and support late preterm infants (LPIs) and their families when they go home from the hospital. PHNs require evidence-informed guidelines to ensure appropriate and consistent care. The objective of this research study is to capture the lived experience of PHNs caring for LPIs in the community asa first step to improving the quality of care for LPIs and support for their parents. Methods: To meet our objectives we chose a descriptive phenomenology approach as a method of inquiry. We conducted semi-structured interviews with PHNs (n= 10) to understand PHN perceptions of caring for LPIs and challenges in meeting the needs of families within the...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Tatiane Piucco; Rogério Soares; Fernando Diefenthaeler; Guillaume Y. Millet; Juan M. Murias
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Purpose: this study aimed to compare the oxygen uptake (V̇O2) kinetics during skating on a treadmill and skating on a slide board and discuss potential mechanisms that might control the V̇O2 kinetics responses during skating. Methods: breath-by-breath pulmonary V̇O2 and near-infrared spectroscopy-derived muscle deoxygenation ([HHbMb]) were monitored continuously in 12 well-trained young long track speed skaters. On-transient V̇O2 and [HHbMb] responses to skating on a treadmill and skating on a slide board at 80% of the estimated gas exchange threshold were fitted as mono-exponential function. The signals were time aligned, and the individual [HHbMb]-to-V̇O2 ratio was calculated as the...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Pamela M. Nordstrom; Genevieve Currie; Shirley Meyer
- Date issued
- 2018
- Description
- Nursing education programs are designed to respond to the evolving requirements of nursing practice while supporting student transformation in becoming a nurse. Students in these programs often refer to them as academically challenging and stressful. The aim of this study was to understand the experience of nursing students compared to the general university student population and specifically, to explore if nursing students are perceiving more stress than students in other university programs. This study arises from an earlier study conducted annually for four years at a western Canadian university following the method referred to as the “Harvard Assessment Seminar” (Light, 2001). In the...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Genevieve Currie; Aliyah Dosani
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Late preterm infants often experience feeding difficulty post discharge from hospital. While breast milk is especially important for late preterm infants, they have lower exclusive breastfeeding rates than full term infants. This is because mothers of late preterm infants often do not receive sufficient amount of breastfeeding support in the postpartum period. Furthermore, in the Canadian context, guidelines do not exist for health care providers to use to assist them in providing breastfeeding support for mothers of late preterm infants in the community setting. We used a modified Delphi approach to begin to fill this gap. We present information relating to physiological development in...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Tatiane Piucco; Rodrigo Bini; Masanori Sakaguchi; Fernando Diefenthaeler; Darren Stefanyshyn
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- This study investigated how the combination of workload and fatigue affected the frequency components of muscle activation and possible recruitment priority of motor units during skating to exhaustion. Ten male competitive speed skaters performed an incremental maximal test on a slide board. Activation of six muscles from the right leg was recorded throughout the test. A time-frequency analysis was performed to compute overall, high, and low frequency bands from the whole signal at 10, 40, 70, and 90% of total test time. Overall activation increased for all muscles throughout the test (p 0.80). There was an increase in low frequency (90% vs 10%, p = 0.035, ES = 1.06) and a decrease in...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Tatiane Piucco; Fernando Diefenthaeler; Rogério Soares; Juan M. Murias; Guillaume Y. Millet
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Purpose: the aim of this study was to investigate the criterion validity of a maximal incremental skating test performed on a slide board (SB). Methods: Twelve sub-elite speed skaters performed a maximal skating test on a treadmill and on a SB. Gas exchange threshold (GET), respiratory compensation point (RCP) and maximal variables were determined. Results: oxygen uptake (V̇O2) (31.0 ± 3.2 and 31.4 ± 4.1 mL∙min-1∙kg-1), percentage of maximal oxygen uptake (V̇O2max) (66.3 ± 4 and 67.7 ± 7.1%), HR (153 ± 14 and 150 ± 12 bpm), and ventilation (59.8 ± 11.8 and 57.0 ± 10.7 L∙min-1) at GET, and V̇O2 (42.5 ± 4.4 and 42.9 ± 4.8 mL∙min-1∙kg-1), percentage of V̇O2max (91.1 ± 3.3 and 92.4 ± 2.1%),...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Aliyah Dosani; Jena Hemraj; Shahirose S. Premji; Genevieve Currie; Sandra M. Reilly; Abhay K. Lodha; Marilyn Young; Marc Hall
- Date issued
- 2017
- Description
- Background: The promotion and maintenance of breastfeeding with late preterm infants (LPIs) remain under examined topics of study. This dearth of research knowledge, especially for this population at-risk for various health complications, requires scientific investigation. In this study, we explore the experiences of mothers and the perceptions of public health nurses (PHNs) about breastfeeding late preterm infants in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Methods: We used an exploratory mixed methods design with a convenience sample of 122 mothers to gather quantitative data about breastfeeding. We collected qualitative data by means of individual face-to-face interviews with 11 mothers and 10 public...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Jill A. Parnell; Kristin P. Wiens; Kelly Anne Erdman
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- Young athletes experience numerous dietary challenges including growth, training/competition, unhealthy food environments, and travel. The objective was to determine nutrient intakes and supplement use in pre-adolescent and adolescent Canadian athletes. Athletes (n = 187) aged 11–18 years completed an on-line 24-h food recall and dietary supplement questionnaire. Median energy intake (interquartile range) varied from 2159 kcal/day (1717–2437) in 11–13 years old females to 2905 kcal/day (2291–3483) in 14–18 years old males. Carbohydrate and protein intakes were 8.1 (6.1–10.5); 2.4 (1.6–3.4) in males 11–13 years, 5.7 (4.5–7.9); 2.0 (1.4–2.6) in females 11–13 years, 5.3 (4.3–7.4); 2.0 (1.5–2...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Tatiane Piucco; Jessica O'Connell; Darren Stefanyshyn; Ricardo Dantas de Lucas
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of stage duration (Long-stage–LS: 3-min, Short-stage–SS: 1-min) on maximal and submaximal aerobic physiological variables during a simulated skating test performed on a slide board. Ten well-trained male speed skaters performed two maximal incremental tests on slide board until voluntary exhaustion. The second ventilatory threshold (VT2) was determined by the ventilatory equivalent method. All participants reached the criteria for maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) attainment in both protocols. Maximal cadence (CADmax), VO2 at VT2 and cadence at VT2 (CADVT2) were significantly higher during SS protocol, but maximal heart rate was...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Sonya L. Jakubec
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- The roles of place & belonging on wellbeing are increasingly understood. Seniors are increasingly living in suburbs – though little is known about the strengths, strategies and struggles! The views of seniors were the place for Vivo to begin to understand how to work together. This study asked: What does belonging mean to seniors in Calgary’s NE/Central suburbs? What are the facilitators & barriers? What could belonging look like for seniors in the suburbs?
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education
- Contributor(s)
- Dwayne Sheehan; Nadine Van Wyk; Emily Johnson; Aimee Blanch
- Date issued
- 2016
- Description
- The recreation sector is perfectly suited to specifically address issues surrounding the desire to be physically active. This is because of recreation's connection to the community, the broad spectrum of its consumers and its ability to address the positive health outcomes of an active lifestyle as it relates to the physical, social, emotional and cognitive domains of wellbeing. To do so appropriately, a guiding framework is necessary; however, one does not currently exist for the recreation sector. As such, we are creating a multi-layered functional physical literacy (FPL) framework to suit the needs of recreation programmers, instructors and parents, to ensure the delivery of high...
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- article
- Appears in collection(s)
- Health, Community and Education