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Metrology of Health-Related Quality of Life Measurements in Adults and Adolescents with Scoliosis
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Background: Scoliosis impacts Quality of Life (QOL). Stabilization exercises have been shown to be effective for improving patient reported outcomes (PROMS.); however, our literature review examining the effects of such exercises on QOL showed that such studies in adults with scoliosis are...
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Fall 2009
Children with autism can have a variety of feeding challenges and there is a paucity of research on the strategies that are effective in addressing these challenges. This study used constructivist grounded theory methodology to determine the process used by mothers to feed their children with...
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Mothers with Intellectual disability from Ethnocultural Communities in Canada: A Narrative Study
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The scientific study of parents and parenting with intellectual disability dates back almost one hundred years. Yet very little is known about the experiences of mothers with intellectual disability from ethnocultural communities, or the way in which culture shapes and constrains these women’s...
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Motivational Interviewing and Injured Workers: Facilitating Behaviour Change in Work Rehabilitation
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Background: Work disability research confirms the importance of psychosocial factors and the decision making process of injured workers as determinants of disability from work-related musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders. Development and implementation of intervention programs specifically addressing...
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Spring 2018
Background: Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability globally. In Canada, about 405,000 individuals are living with the effects of stroke and this number is projected to rise by over 60% in the next two decades. People with stroke are often physically inactive and sedentary which may...
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Fall 2017
Purpose: Emerging data indicate that processing of familiar and novel faces involves different neural mechanisms; familiar face perception is associated with more widespread neural activity in prefrontal and temporal regions compared with novel faces (Leveroni et al., 2000). Nevertheless,...
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Fall 2016
Background. Context use in sentence comprehension is fairly resistant to age-related cognitive decline; however, event-related potentials (ERPs) studies have shown age effects in neural activity associated with sentence comprehension, specifically when contextual information is manipulated. One...
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Fall 2015
Background: Older workers often require more recovery time than younger workers due to various considerations such as comorbidities, which may result in prolonged work disability. Work disability and its negative consequences may be reduced by identifying injured workers who are at increased risk...
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Spring 2022
Purpose: The enigma of poor oral health of residents in long-term care (LTC) homes remains unsolved despite many years of research and intervention. The purpose of this study was to explore why resident oral health in LTC homes remains poor despite many years of research on causes of the...
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Oral Language Predictors of Reading Comprehension among Elementary School Children: Does Developmental Language Impairment Make a Difference?
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Research comparing reading comprehension tests has consistently found that these tests, all designed to measure the construct of reading comprehension, tap various and frequently different component skills. A number of studies have examined the relationship of oral language skills to reading...