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- 1Aubin, Diane L.
- 1Chachula, Kathryn M
- 1Forcier, Eric
- 1Genuis, Shelagh K.
- 1Hoosein, Sophia A
- 7Faculty of Nursing
- 6School of Library and Information Studies
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- 1Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
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- 1Cameron, Brenda (Faculty of Nursing)
- 1Dr. Ali Shiri (School of Library and Information Studies)
- 1Dr. Beverly Williams - Faculty of Nursing
- 1Dr. Susan Brown (Humanities Computing)
- 1Eastlick Kushner, Kaysi (Faculty of Nursing)
- 1Farmer, Anna (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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Spring 2015
The purpose of this study was to identify critical elements in a conceptual model for a community-engaged data curation in the digital humanities, to propose a set of evaluation criteria that would act as guiding principles in pursuing such work in the future, and to explore ways in which...
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Dealing with a latent danger: parents communicating with their school-age preadolescent children about smoking - a grounded theory study
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Smoking in youth continues to be an important public health issue. Because adolescence is the key period for smoking initiation, prevention efforts need to take place before the adolescent years. Little is known about parental smoking prevention interventions. The purpose of this study,...
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Dietitian’s perceptions, knowledge and attitudes regarding their role in the assessment of food insecurity in Alberta
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During 2012, four million Canadians struggled to bring healthy foods to their tables. Dietitians play a key role in assessing food insecurity and in supporting individuals, families, and communities experiencing this problem. Yet, the detection of food insecurity is often missed during the...
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Evolving Professional Identity: Exploring How Pharmacists Make Sense of their Prescribing Role
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Dramatic changes in the pharmacy profession have occurred in the past century. Many of these occurred as the primary focus of the pharmacist transitioned from drug products to providing patient care services. Prescribing by pharmacists gained momentum when it was implemented in the United Kingdom...
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Fall 2014
The objective of this study was to explore information and its function in fiction reading for leisure through the perceptions and experiences of adult readers. I used a phenomenographic approach to look for qualitative differences in experiences and understandings in order describe the...
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Information hippies, Google-fu masters, and other volunteer tourists in Thailand: information behaviour in the liminoid
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Using social positioning theory and the concept of the liminoid, the objectives of this qualitative research project were three-fold: 1) investigate how social positioning affects the information behaviour of volunteer tourists; 2) determine what effects cultural confusion (aka “culture shock”),...
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Spring 2011
The current research was designed to add to the youth sport coping literature by examining adolescent athletes’ stressor appraisals and coping and to understand the way in which athletes learn to cope. Two studies were conducted. Study one was a metastudy (Paterson, Thorne, Canam, & Jillings,...
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Letting go: How newly-graduated Registered Nurses in western Canada decide to exit the nursing profession
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The Canadian Nurses Association predicts the nursing shortage will rise to an estimated 60,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) by the year 2022. Further compounding this issue is the approximate 14-61% of nursing graduates who will change nursing roles or exit the profession within two years of...
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Spring 2011
While evidence-based practice and knowledge translation (or transfer) has garnered much attention, research has not focused on health information as provisional and emergent, and on knowledge translation (KT) as a process of social construction. The challenge of evolving information is magnified...
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Motivation and the information behaviours of online learning students: the case of a professionally-oriented, graduate program
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Online learning is a wonderful opportunity for students who cannot attend classes at conventional times and places to further their education. However, to some extent, accessing and sharing information is often quite different and potentially more difficult for this particular group (e.g., they...