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Fall 2021

O'Brien, Daniel

Background: Evidenced-informed strategies are urgently needed to support families who are struggling with a youth’s substance use disorder. One strategy used in several Canadian provinces is involuntary stabilization programs, which involve the apprehension and confinement of youth whose...

Spring 2011

Thurston, Amy J

A total of 1,018 charts of people who died from August 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009 were reviewed to describe and examine current end-of-life care needs and care practices provided in two acute care hospitals. The mean age of those who died was 72.5, the majority of decedents were elderly...

Fall 2023

Teodorescu, Daniela

Language is inherently social -- it is influenced by our lived experiences and environments, and impacts the way in which we communicate with each other. Therefore, it is not a surprise that our health impacts our language. The patterns with which emotion changes over time -- emotion dynamics --...

Spring 2015

Krameddine, Yasmeen I

Interactions between police and individuals suffering from mental illness are very frequent. Police forces are regularly first responders to those with mental illness. Unfortunately, on occasion interactions are violent and sometimes fatal. Despite this, training police how to best interact with...

Fall 2020

Brown, Jasmine M.

This dissertation explores the questions “What technology-based interventions are of most benefit in supporting the health and/or rehabilitation of individuals with substance use disorders? Where and how can they be most effectively embedded in the health system?” Chapter 1 begins with an...

Spring 2022

Marusiak, Michelle J

Abstract Background: Seniors who are dependent on others to brush their teeth, communicate their dental needs, and provide them access to professional oral health care define dentally dependent nursing home residents in the context of this dissertation. Oral problems in Canadian nursing home...

Spring 2013

Choi, Jaeyoung

Immigrant women have many emotional, psychological, and/or cultural stressors that may influence their health. For some women, these stressors may only be present during the acculturation process, but for others they may continue throughout the remainder of their lives. Focused ethnography, as...

Spring 2024

Gharaat, Mohamad Ali

The primary wellspring of information, the Internet, abounds with misinfor- mation, particularly in the domains of mental health and psychology. This also affects the reliability and truth of responses of chatbots counting on unverified data. To address this concern, the MIRA project started to...

Fall 2018

Hamayeli Mehrabani, Maral

Development of Public Participation Geographic Information System (PPGIS) was an attempt to bring technology to communities for their decision-making. To overcome the limitations of the traditional public participation and with the huge progress in the web-based technologies, community planners...

Spring 2016

Kees, Jennifer G.

While research has demonstrated no differences in effectiveness between the different types of addictions treatments, differences have been found for effectiveness between counsellors. Research has shown that some counsellors who treat addictions, consistently achieve better results than others,...