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Spring 2015

Chisholm, Tara M

Introduction: Rarely have the barriers and facilitators of PA for persons with a disability (PwD) living in a small city been the focus of researchers, despite the emergence of studies in the last two decades about the importance of PA for PwD. Numerous studies have investigated the barriers and...

Fall 2023

Elliott, Cassandra L.

Epidemiological monitoring over the past decade has identified a pattern of increasing rates of suicide, financial difficulty, and transition distress in Canadian Armed Forces veterans. Veterans who involuntarily release due to medical reasons experience more challenges than other groups of...

Fall 2016

Russell, William H

Purpose: Cross-education is a neural phenomenon where an untrained limb improves after unilateral training of the opposite homologous limb. It has been extensively studied in the healthy population and shows promise for post-stroke rehabilitation. Despite this promise, cross-education has not...

Fall 2021

Giri, Deena

Transgender people face unique multiple levels of barriers and challenges regarding sexual health and wellbeing. While there has been a significant number of studies exploring sexual health among the 2SLGBTQ+ population, there is a paucity of research that uses a participatory approach targeted...

Fall 2024

Ahmed, Omar E

Background: Acute respiratory infectious diseases such as strep throat, influenza, and COVID-19 pose significant public health challenges. Community pharmacists in Canada have a broad scope of practice. They have been involved in assessing and prescribing for minor ailments, ordering laboratory...

Fall 2014

Query, Brenda A

Background: Primary caregivers of children with disabilities are at risk for poor health; rural caregivers may be especially at risk. Engagement in health promoting behaviors can improve the health of these caregivers but few studies have described these behaviors or outlined the facilitators and...

Spring 2023

Suderman, Kirsten

The purpose of this dissertation was to explore, identify and address gaps in exercise oncology evidence-based care for individuals with cancer, with a specific focus on implementation of cancer-specific exercise programming. Further understanding is needed regarding the poor rates of reported...

Fall 2010

Tremblay, Marie Anne

Urbanization is viewed as a major threat to global biodiversity because of its role in the loss and fragmentation of low-lying, productive habitats associated with coastal plains and river valleys. My study examines the effects of urbanization on the movements and distribution of songbirds in...

Fall 2012

Del Carpio Ovando, Karla Berenice

Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, this research investigated the situation of the Tsotsil language spoken in Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico, by focusing on the implementation of a Spanish-Tsotsil bilingual elementary school. It was possible to discover that the Tsotsil language is still alive...