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Who is Using Non-Invasive Ventilation? A Descriptive Study Examining the Population Enrolled in a Pediatric Non-Invasive Ventilation Program
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The use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in infants and children is increasing. This thesis examined the population of infants and children enrolled in a quaternary pediatric hospital’s NIV program with the goal of describing the clinical characteristics of that population over a one-year...
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Developing and Testing a Theoretical Model to Determine Children’s Adherence to Oral Health Behaviours
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Background: Adherence to health care advice is a complex health concern especially when it involves children. Dental caries has been identified as the most common chronic childhood disease that occurs in a continuum. At the same time, it can be prevented by adherence to proper oral health...
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Body Composition Assessment in Pediatric Obesity: Reliability, Validity, and Clinical Applications
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Adipose tissue and skeletal muscle have unique metabolic roles. Despite body mass index for age and sex (BMI z-score) being historically widely used to evaluate and monitor health status in children with obesity, it does not depict adiposity and muscularity (or their changes) during growth or...
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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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Everyone's just like, they're fine, and when in reality, are we? Stories about recess from children experiencing disability
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Recess can be a valuable and significant experience in children’s lives that provides opportunities for outdoor free play and engagement with peers; however children experiencing disability often withdraw or are excluded during recess. The recess context has received little attention from an...
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Profiling the Bacterial and Fungal Gut Microbiome of Children with and without Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS)
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Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease that has a large array of direct (e.g. altered metabolic and inflammatory profile) and indirect (e.g. mental health concerns etc.) consequences on health and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is the most...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. There is an increase of Canadians speaking a language at home other than French or English, resulting in an increase of linguistic and cultural diversity in schools. Unfortunately, many mainstream elementary teachers lack knowledge to effectively teach these emerging...
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2020-07-29
Montakhab, Maryam, Salinas-Marchant, Carolina, Multilingual Families Laboratory*, MacLeod, Andrea A.N.
The Multilingual Family Laboratory conducted a brief survey on Children's Communication during COVID-19, in which 201 Francophone, Anglophone and Hispanophone families participated. In this infographic, we will try to respond to one of the parents' requests.
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2020-09-30
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: In the proposed four-year project, we will conduct a longitudinal study that follows three groups of children from kindergarten to grade two: 100 children with a family history of dyslexia, which is highly heritable, 100 with a preschool diagnosis of developmental language...
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Fall 2019
Indigenous communities in Canada (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) face significant social and environmental barriers to healthy eating. Due in large part to these barriers, Indigenous children are disproportionally affected by nutrition-related chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes....