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Privacy and Trust in Healthcare IoT Data Sharing: A Snapshot of the Users’ Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)Background: Healthcare services in Canada are slowly shifting from in-hospital care to more patient-centred, home-care services. Collecting and sharing personal data from individuals via Internet of Things (IoT) devices ... -
Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Canadian Working Population: A Qualitative Review of Not Myself Today
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-01)As concerns about mental health (MH) escalate worldwide, large-scale efforts to decrease the known risks negatively impacting MH are becoming more common. Likewise, the workplace environment is becoming an important setting ... -
Psychological Distress and Mental Illness in Emerging Adults with Learning Disabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)Background: Individuals with learning disabilities (LDs) have an increased risk for mental illness. The association between LDs and mental illness varies across sex, age, and among those with co-morbidities. While LDs and ... -
Psychometric Properties and Informant Agreement of the WHODAS 2.0 in Youth with Mental Disorder and their Parents
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)Background: Mental disorders affect one in five youth and the impact of these disorders extend across the life course. Functional impairment moderates many of the negative effects of mental disorders; however, its assessment ... -
Public Health Monitoring of Behavioural Risk Factors and Mobility in Canada: An IoT-based Big Data Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-06)Background: Despite the presence of robust global public health surveillance mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the world and exposed the weakness of the public healthcare systems. Public health surveillance has ... -
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CONSUMER GRADE WEARABLE DEVICES IN HEALTH CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)Background: The proliferation of wearable and mobile devices in recent years has led to the generation of unprecedented amounts of health-related data. Together with the growing population of older adults in Canada, the ... -
A qualitative examination of the impact of social restrictions during COVID-19 pandemic on social relations and social interactions of adolescents aged 12-18 years in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-24)Background: The novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020 (WHO, 2020). The government of Ontario declared a stay-at-home order where schools ... -
Quality of Dementia Care in the Community: Identifying Key Quality Assurance Components
(Canadian Geriatrics Society, 2016-12-01)Background: Primary care-based memory clinics (PCMCs) have been established in several jurisdictions to improve the care for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. We sought to identify key quality indicators ... -
A quasi-experimental examination of how changes in school-level intramurals are associated with physical activity among a sample of Canadian secondary school students from the COMPASS study
(Elsevier, 2021-06)Introduction Intramurals in schools may encourage physical activity among youth. Schools are continuously making changes to these intramurals, yet it is not well understood how these changes impact youth physical activity. ... -
A quasi-experimental study of a mandatory calorie-labelling policy in restaurants: Impact on use of nutrition information among youth and young adults in Canada
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)In 2017, Ontario became the first Canadian province to require calorie amounts on menus/menu boards of chain restaurants. The province of British Columbia (BC) implemented a voluntary nutrition information initiative in ... -
Readability and Coherence of Canadian Provincial Department/Ministry of Health HPV Information Intended for the Lay Population
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)Background: Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a prime factor in the development of many cancers and genital warts in Canada. A majority of sexually active Canadians are likely to have a HPV infection during their lifetime. ... -
A Recipe for Food Literacy: Designing and Evaluating Technologies for Informed Food Choices
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-19)Technology increasingly mediates our everyday interactions with food, ranging from purchasing and handling to preparation and eating. And now — more than ever — technology influences the food we buy and ultimately consume. ... -
Reflections on Our Human-Centred Qualitative Data Science Journey
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-28)We are HCI researchers from the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health Sciences. Many of our colleagues are social science researchers, and are tackling important issues like vaccine hesitancy, mental health, and ... -
The REFRESH Study Recreation Environment and Food Research: Experiences from Hockey
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-03)Introduction Unhealthy dietary behaviours are prevalent among adolescents who participate in organized sports. This may be putting them at risk of obesity and chronic disease, since adolescent eating behaviours have been ... -
Rehabilitation, Recovery, and Adverse Events Following Discharge from Ontario Complex Continuing Care Hospitals
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation was to characterize rehabilitative care in Ontario Complex Continuing Care hospitals and to examine the association of patient, structure, and process factors on functional outcomes ... -
Reimagining health services and policy research: Embedding environmental sustainability into our research priorities and practice
(Elsevier, 2021-05)The health impacts of the climate crisis demand that health systems adapt their practices and mitigate their carbon emissions. Health services and policy research (HSPR) is crucial for the transformation of these systems. ... -
Reinvestigating Access to Healthcare Services and Unmet Healthcare Needs Among Immigrants in Canada: Results from the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)Objective: To compare the differences in the reported experience of unmet healthcare needs of recent immigrants (i.e. immigrants living in Canada for five years or less) and Canadian-born adults and to determine if the ... -
The relationship between adolescent physical activity, brain health, and academic achievement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)Background: In addition to the numerous physical and mental health benefits attributable to regular physical activity, physical activity has more recently been hypothesized to improve academic performance via its beneficial ... -
Relationship between Mercury Concentrations in Hair and Blood in Dene/Métis Communities of the Northwest Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)Background: Mercury (Hg) is a global environmental pollutant as well as a growing concern to public health. Indigenous populations in the Northwest Territories (NWT) may experience elevated Hg exposures due to higher ... -
Right Ventricular Function, Peripheral Edema, and Acute Kidney Injury in Critical Illness
(Elsevier, 2017-11-01)The cardiorenal syndrome generally focuses on left ventricular function, and the importance of the right ventricle as a determinant of renal function is described less frequently. In a cohort of critically ill patients ...