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Latino Immigrant Parents in Canada: Experiences and Adjustment to raising Children in the Absence of the Extended Family
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The Latino population in Canada has been increasing during the past decade accounting for 11% of newcomers in 2011. One of the core values in Latino culture is familism, the family is the main source of support and has an important role in childrearing. This qualitative study focuses on the...
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Managing chronic kidney disease in a nurse-run, physician-monitored clinic: The CanPREVENT experience.
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Hibbert, M. P., Gaudet, D., Barrett, B., Morgan, J., Starzomski, R., Molzahn, A. E.
The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of the care provided to people with chronic kidney disease within a larger study of nurse-run, physicianmonitored clinics, as well as how patients, nurses, and nephrologists described their experience with the clinics. Interviews were conducted...
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Spring 2021
Digital libraries are online environments for organizing, sharing, and providing access to resources in digital form. Ideally, their content, functionality, organization, and metadata should reflect the needs, interests, and contexts of the communities they are meant to serve. Indigenous...
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Spring 2017
The social production of bodies as mixed race provides insights into the particular operation of the external racial gaze within the context of multiculturalism in Canada. This project explores those insights by applying a combination of critical race and life course perspectives to the life...
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Mobile Phones and Health Communication for Young Adults: An Exploratory Case Study about Incorporating Text messaging in Pregnancy Care Support in Edmonton
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Research shows that reproductive health initiatives for youth, using SMS (texting), are successful worldwide. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore and describe how introducing SMS in an agency supporting people facing unplanned pregnancies in Edmonton could enhance...
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Navigating the Jungle: An Investigation of Older Adults’ Quests for Governmental Information
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Government information interactions are inevitable at many points in our lives; life events and milestones often intersect with the need for governmental programs and services information that will help or facilitate the resulting life transitions. This qualitative research study takes a...
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Nurturing empathy for social cohesion: Participatory, community-based communication design research with gay youth living with HIV in Lebanon
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The marginalization of gay youth living with HIV (GYLWH) in Lebanese society is well documented. The topic of gay youth living with HIV in a deeply conservative and homophobic society has not been studied in any great depth. The story of gay youth in Lebanon is one of the stigmatization...
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2015
Sopcak, Nicolette, Williamson, Deanna L., Letourneau, Nicole, Stewart, Miriam, Kushner, Kaysi, E., Pitre, Nicole Y., Breitkreuz, Rhonda, Rempel, Gwen
We examined first-time fathers’ and mothers’ perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve...
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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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Participatory knowledge exchange to support palliative care in Chile: Lessons learned through global health research.
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deMoissac, D., Cameron, B. L., Santos Salas, A.
The authors designed a participatory qualitative research study to develop a collaborative partnership between palliative care practitioners in Canada and in Chile. The research goal was to support the provision of palliative care in vulnerable settings through a participatory knowledge exchange...