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How Do Health Behaviours Acquired at School Translate into the Home? The Exploration of a Photovoice Project Among Students in APPLE Schools
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The prevalence of sedentary behaviours, physical inactivity, and poor diets is a major public health concern in Canada and worldwide. School and home environments play a significant role in influencing such behaviours, and are ideal settings for health promotion interventions. Educational...
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Identifying Major Depressive Symptoms and Major Depressive Episodes in Adolescents with Cancer
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Cancer is the leading cause of death from disease among adolescents in Canada. Although cancer is a well-researched disease process in the medical and nursing literature, adolescence is relatively understudied, with minimal evidence on strategies to promote healthy emotional adjustment...
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Impact of an employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India
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In this dissertation, I examine the impact of the world's largest employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India. The program, popularly known as National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) was introduced in India in 2005. I utilize two...
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Fall 2016
Lipidomics is a research field that attempts to achieve the comprehensive analysis of the entire lipidome in a biological system. The emergence and rapid expansion of lipidomic studies is driven by the great advances in chromatographic separation and mass spectrometry. For this dissertation, I...
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Fall 2016
INTRODUCTION: Peer-based housing support for people with severe mental illness who are at risk of homelessness is a promising, though understudied, intervention approach. OBJECTIVES: To examine how well an Edmonton pilot project implementing peer-based housing supports addressed factors...
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Mental health and addiction problems among vulnerable populations and the impact of a supportive text message intervention in one vulnerable group
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Background Mental health and addiction problems are prevalent among some groups such as the military, firefighters, the elderly, and residents who have experienced multiple disasters. Identifying the prevalence and predictors of mental health and addiction conditions is important for primary...
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Mobile technology interventions for improving medication adherence in patients with mental health disorders
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ABSTRACT Poor medication adherence in the mental health population leads to compromised treatment outcomes and increased health care costs. Traditional interventions for medication adherence, while effective if addressing multiple determinants of medication-taking behavior, are expensive and...
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Fall 2019
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men in the world (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers). According to the statistics from the Canadian Cancer Society, it is the third leading cause of death from cancer in men in Canada. In general, prostate cancer is treatable with 5-year...
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Patient and treatment characteristics of children and youth who visit the emergency department for a behavioural disorder
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More and more parents are seeking care for their children in emergency departments (EDs) to stabilize acute emergencies related to mental health problems, request guidance for at-home child management, and gain access to health care resources. This retrospective cohort study explored patient and...
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Spring 2023
Meaningful development and evaluation of mental health care services requires the involvement of individuals who use the services. However, the lived experiences of children and adolescents with mental health concerns as well as their parents/caregivers are seldom considered in studies seeking to...