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Childhood Vaccination among Underserved Populations in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sequential Mixed Methods Approach Using Intersectionality Theory
DownloadFall 2024
Background. Low routine childhood vaccination coverage and increased incidence of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) have been identified within some ethnocultural groups in Canada (i.e., Racialized minorities, newcomers). Inequities have been attributed to systemic barriers to accessing...
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Clinical Nurse Specialists’ Role in Promoting Evidence Based Practice in Saskatchewan’s Health Care Settings
DownloadFall 2012
Background: Nursing is a practice discipline and patients expect nurses will use the best evidence available to improve outcomes. A major challenge to the implementation of best practice is the complexity of organizational and social environments in which nurses’ work. One method to keep nurses...
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Mining the communicative flow: Communication and social learning in the reclamation of the ‘Vista Coal Mine’ project in Alberta, Canada
DownloadSpring 2016
In the development and approval of new extractive resource industry projects in or close to communities, it is necessary to explore if and how communication and social networks surrounding these projects offer a platform for collaborative debate and knowledge formation. In doing so, we can better...
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Psychologists’ Practices, Training, and Experiences Conducting Suicide Risk Assessment in Canada: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study
DownloadFall 2023
Over the last 10 years, suicide prevention best practices have changed. We have learned that suicide cannot be reliably predicted, that hospitalizations for acute suicidality are harmful, and treating suicidal behaviours only has a small effect size. As a result, collaborative and humanistic...
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School-based outdoor learning in Alberta: Examining K-9 teachers’ success through mixed methods research
DownloadFall 2023
While Western Canada’s landscape is diverse in outdoor teaching environments (Henderson & Potter, 2001; Ho et al., 2017), there is a lack of data identifying school-based outdoor learning (OL) experiences (Fägerstam, 2012; Landy, 2018) in K-9 classrooms. This research examines factors that...
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Teachers’ Perspectives on Motivational Practices in Classrooms: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Design
DownloadFall 2017
Motivation theory suggests several different approaches to best motivating students, established through rigorous empirical research. However, a theory-practice divide persists: teachers report feeling underprepared to motivate their students and researchers fail to make their recommendations...