Chronicity
The mission of the Chronicity Areas of Excellence (AoE) is to advance and disseminate knowledge and to influence public policy related to living well with chronic health concerns.
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- 222Nursing, Faculty of
- 222Nursing, Faculty of/Chronicity
- 5Nursing, Faculty of/Health Equity
- 3Emergency Medicine, Department of
- 3Emergency Medicine, Department of/Reviews (Emergency Medicine)
- 2Nursing, Faculty of/Health Systems
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2009
A critical appraisal of the concept, quality of life, as used in nursing theories, is presented in a historically situated context. This approach to concept analysis was selected to illuminate the subjective, contextual, and fluid nature of the concept. Based on this review, quality of life is...
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2008
Low, G., Kalfoss, M., Molzahn, A. E.
In this study, Glick and Tripp-Reimer's (1996) Iowa model for gerontological nursing serves as a guiding framework for a descriptive exploratory study of quality of life (QOL) of older adults. Using secondary data, the authors explored whether the effects of health appraisal, morbidities, social...
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2013
O’Rourke, Hannah, Ceci, Christine
Textbooks and policy documents tend to present the boundary between normal and abnormal ageing as natural and clearly demarcated. In this study, we trouble the notion of natural and clearly demarcated boundaries between normal and abnormal ageing by considering how these boundaries have been...
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Reducing depression in older home care clients: Design of a prospective study of a nurse-led interprofessional mental health promotion intervention
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Gibson, M., Markle-Reid, M., Thabane, L., Pierce, T., Hoch, J., McAiney, C., Busing, B., Browne, G., Forbes, D.
Background: Very little research has been conducted in the area of depression among older home care clients using personal support services. These older adults are particularly vulnerable to depression because of decreased cognition, comorbid chronic conditions, functional limitations, lack of...
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2005
Stewart, N., Morgan, D. G., D’Arcy, C., Forbes, D., Andrews, M. E., Pitblado, J. R.
This paper describes the demographics of Registered Nurses (RNs) who work alone in rural and remote Canada, their workplaces, and the benefits and challenges of this unique nursing employment situation. Data presented are from a national survey, one of 4 principal approaches used in conducting...
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Reliability and validity of the attitudes to ageing questionnaire for Canadian and Norwegian older adults.
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Low, G., Kalfoss, M., Molzahn, A. E.
The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ), a new scale designed for cross-cultural comparisons of older adults. There are currently very few measures intended to measure the attitudes of older adults to their own ageing. The...
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2015
Molzahn, Anita, Davison, Sara N., Pelletier, Rick, Klarenbach, Scott W., Wiebe, Natasha, Thompson, Stephanie, Hemmelgarn, Brenda R., Manns, Braden J., Tonelli, Marcello, Pannu, Neesh, Gill, John S.
Background There has been little research exploring the experience of dialysis therapy for people living in remote communities. Remote residence location has previously been associated with excess mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients, suggesting that relocation to a referral center might...
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Risk factors for loss to follow-up among chidren and young adults with congenital heart disease
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Nicholas, D., Mackie, A.S., Rempel, G., Magill-Evans, J., Rankin, K.
Objective: To identify risk factors for loss to cardiology follow-up among children and young adults with congenital heart disease. Methods: We used a matched case-control design. Cases were born before January, 2001 with moderate or complex congenital heart disease and were previously followed...
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Risk-taking attitides and their association with process and outcomes of cardiac care: a cohort study
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Ghali, W.A., Knudtson, M.L., King, K.M., Norris, C.M.
Background: Prior research reveals that processes and outcomes of cardiac care differ across sociodemographic strata. One potential contributing factor to such differences is the personality traits of individuals within these strata. We examined the association between risk-taking attitudes and...