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Marta Erlandson

Email

marta.erlandson@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Inventing Chronic Disease Management for Children with Congenital Heart Disease

  • Mending Little Hearts - Children’s Healthy-Heart Activity Monitoring Program in Saskatchewan (CHAMPS) (link)

Expertise

  • Child/Youth cardiac conditions and rehabilitation

  • Growth and development in children

  • Effects of physical activity and inactivity in children’s health

  • ActiGraph Accelerometers – physical activity measuring tool

  • DEXA Scans

  • Physical Literacy Theory

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Amanda Froehlich Chow

Email

a.fc@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Listening and Learning: Applying a Community-Based Participatory Approach to the Design of a Physical Literacy Model Aimed at Supporting Indigenous Older Adults to Age in Place

  • A Physical Literacy Focused Approach to Building Bonds Among Indigenous Children, their Families and Communities

  • Interdisciplinary Primary Health Care Approaches to Dementia and Chronic Conditions: A Case Study

Select Publications

  • Collaborative Approaches to Team-Based Primary Health Care for Individuals with Dementia in Rural and Remote Settings: A Scoping Review. (link)

  • Healthy Start–Départ Santé: A pilot study of a multilevel intervention to increase physical activity, fundamental movement skills and healthy eating in rural childcare centres. (link)

  • Promoting Physical Activity, Healthy Eating and Physical Literacy Among Preschoolers Attending Childcare Centres Healthy Start-Départ Santé Intervention Using the RE-AIM Framework. (link)

Expertise

  • Physical Activity

  • Physical Literacy

  • Population Health Research

  • Early Childhood Development

  • Program Planning

  • Program Evaluation

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Katherine Knox

Email

kak531@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Individualized behavior change strategies for physical activity in multiple sclerosis

  • Maintaining neuro-'connectivity': a virtual approach

  • Saskatchewan Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Research Program

Select Publications

  • Impact of comorbidity on hospitalizations in individuals newly diagnoses with multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal population-basedstudy. (link)

  • Adherence to physiotherapy-guided webbased exercise for persons living with moderate to severe multiple sclerosis: a randomized-controlled pilot study. International Journal of Multiple Sclerosis Care. (link)

  • Association between disease-modifying therapies formultiple sclerosis and healthcare utilisation on a population level: aretrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. (link)

Expertise

  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

  • Physical Activity

  • Rehabilitation

  • Quality of Life

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Saija Kontulainen

Email

saija.kontulainen@usask.ca

Research Project

  • Bone Strength Development Study: Assessing details of bone growth and related factors to optimize bone strength development in children with type 1 diabetes (link)

  • Nordic Walking Study: assessing safety and efficacy of Nordic walking intervention on posture, functional mobility and quality of life in individuals at risk of fracture (link)

Select Publication

  • Patient-driven COVID-19 accommodations in the Nordic walking intervention (link)

  • Nordic Walking study accommodations to COVID-19 pandemic (link)

Expertise

  • Musculoskeletal Health

  • Bone Health

  • Physical Activity

  • Diabetes

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