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2004

Letendre, A., Caine, V.

During the summer of 2002, we worked on a project exploring issues surrounding ethics and research with Aboriginal people. As we reviewed a number of articles published in this area, our library and Internet searches were accompanied by multiple conversations. Within these conversations we often...

2005

Chavez, K., Pillon, S., O'Brien, B.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate drug use and risk behaviors among students of the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador. To evaluate this issue, we used the questionnaire “Youth Risk Behavior Survey” (YRBS). The study sample consisted of 751 undergraduate students: 328 (44%) male and 423...

2005

Beiser, M., Armstrong, R., Ogilvie, L., Rummens, A., Oxman-Martinez, J.

One in every five children living in Canada was either born somewhere else or born into immigrant and refugee families, and Canada expects a lot from them. The literature about immigrant and refugee children is riddled with paradoxes, inconsistent results and unanswered questions. Longitudinal...

2005

Pillon, S., Chavez, K., O'Brien, B.

The aim was to describe relationships between gender and drug use as well as risk behaviors that may be associated with drug use among first-year students at the University of São Paulo-Ribeirão Preto. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is an anonymous survey that was used for this descriptive...

2005

Galera, S.A., Roldan, M.C., O'Brien, B.

The number of women involved with drugs is increasing, and the same is true for violence against them. Many of these women are mothers. This study aimed to investigate how mothers of children between one month and six years old who are living in a context of drugs and violence and are receiving...

2005

Richter, S., Mlambo, G.T.

It is important to seek an understanding of teenagers’ perceptions regarding teenage pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of teenagers in Bushbuckridge district in the Limpopo Province, South Africa, towards teenage pregnancy. An explorative qualitative...

2005

Roldan, M.C., Galera, S.A., O'Brien, B.

Although the drug problem is more present among men, women are an increasing group and a vulnerable subgroup, since many of them are involved in motherhood. In this paper, the partial results of an ethnographic study on maternal role-related perceptions, beliefs and attitudes are presented, as...

2006

Mfolo, V., Richter, S.

Most of the South African public health facilities fail to provide adolescent-friendly health services. A quantitative, descriptive research study was conducted at Stinkwater, a rural area in Hammanskraal, South Africa. The objective of the study was to describe the adolescent’s preferences...

2006

Milne, C., Cafiero, M., Rowen, L., Camden, S.G., Conroy, S., Sujeta, N., Alexander, J.W., Tyler, R.D., Whitehead, N.L.

2007

Brindley, P. G., Suen, G. I., Drummond, J.

This manuscript is part-two of a threepart series on Medical Simulation. Part-one addressed the “why” of Simulation, namely, why Medical Simulation offers novel opportunities to improve education, continuing-competency, and patient safety. Part-two focuses on the “how” of simulation, namely, how...