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Fall 2012
There is limited information on families’ decisions regarding their (dis)continuation of weight management care. This thesis includes two complementary studies that examined this issue. First, an integrative review was performed to characterize predictors of and reasons for attrition in pediatric...
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Leadership as Life Skills in Relation to Health Behaviours and Bodyweight in Grade 5 Students
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Childhood obesity has risen dramatically over recent decades in Canada, attributed largely to increasingly obesogenic environments. Our understanding of obesity now recognizes its complex ecological etiology, yet life skills – critical to how children engage with their surroundings – have been...
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Sarcopenia is associated with clinical outcomes and physical function in children with end-stage liver disease pre-and-post liver transplantation
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Background & Aims: Sarcopenia is defined as reduced skeletal muscle mass (myopenia), muscle strength and physical performance. In adults with end stage liver disease (ESLD), sarcopenia is highly prevalent and associated with adverse outcomes. Emerging data have shown that sarcopenia is prevalent...
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Gestational weight gain, physical activity, and nutrition counselling practices of prenatal health care providers: What influences practice?
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Appropriate gestational weight gain is important for maternal and child health. Data from a recent Alberta cohort showed 49% of pregnant women gained weight in excess of Health Canada guidelines. Regional studies have shown low rates of gestational weight gain counselling by health care...
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Spring 2015
Canadian research on the phenomenon of waterpipe (WP) use has been slow to develop. Significant knowledge gaps have hampered tobacco control efforts in this area. This thesis presents results from three multidisciplinary studies that were designed to provide fundamental knowledge about WP use. ...
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Fall 2018
Mental health disorders are an issue of epidemic proportions, affecting children and adolescents worldwide. Recent studies have suggested a link between lifestyle behaviours of diet, physical activity, screen time, and sleep with mental health in adolescence. However, a combined lifestyle...
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Fall 2018
There has been a decline in children’s free-play participation, despite the importance of this experience for their health and development (Gleave, 2009). Parents can facilitate a range of free-play experiences (Sleddens et al., 2012) through their pivotal role in children’s lives (Hertzman &...
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A population-based comparison of injuries among farm children to non-farm children in Alberta, 1999-2010
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Objectives - To systematically review literature on rural-urban differences in pediatric injury incidence and to examine incidence of all-cause injury, agricultural injury, and injury-related health care utilization for farm children compared to several groups of non-farm children under 18 years...
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Spring 2011
The current research was designed to add to the youth sport coping literature by examining adolescent athletes’ stressor appraisals and coping and to understand the way in which athletes learn to cope. Two studies were conducted. Study one was a metastudy (Paterson, Thorne, Canam, & Jillings,...
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Pairing Reading Treatment with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Adults with Aphasia
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Background. Damage to language areas of the brain often leads to a language disorder called aphasia, which impairs speech, writing, and understanding. Sixty-eight per cent of people with aphasia (PWA) also present with alexia, a reading impairment. There is an urgent need for efficacious...