Marta Erlandson
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
Charity Evans
Research Projects
Multi-province study to establish the long-term safety and effectiveness of the disease-modifying therapies for MS
Establishing the incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Saskatchewan
Individualized Behaviour Change Strategies for Physical Activity in Multiple Sclerosis
Select Publications
The impact of Pilates exercises in multiple sclerosis: a randomized controlled trial. (link)
Establishing the incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Saskatchewan. (link)
Expertise
Multiple Sclerosis
Pharmacoepidemiology
Clinical Trials
Pamela Farthing
Research Projects
Care and Ongoing Support Requirements of Young Adults with Diabetes
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Supports among Young Adult Mothers with Diabetes
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Expertise
Health Informatics
Diabetes
Leah Ferguson
Research Projects
Journeying Together to Co-Create a Foundation for Indigenous Sport Research
Sport History of the Indigenous Games
Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program in Saskatchewan
Select Publications
“It’s a big adjustment coming from the reserve to living in a totally different society”: Exploring the well-being of First Nations athletes playing sports in an urban mainstream context. (link)
“It’s more than just performing well in your sport. It’s also about being healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually”: Indigenous women athletes’ meanings and experiences of flourishing in sport. (link)
“I would love to blast some pow music and just dance”: First Nations students’ experiences of physical activity on campus. (link)
Narratives of adolescent women athletes’ body self-compassion, performance and emotional well-being. (link)
Enhancing capacity: Integrating self-compassion in sport. (link)
The agony of defeat: How Olympians can deal with failure. (link)
Expertise
Sports Psychology
Indigenous Health
Indigenous Wellness
Indigenous Sport
Heather Foulds
Research Projects
Social and Cultural Impacts on Cardiovascular Health Determinants for Indigenous Women
Jigging our Health
Journeying Together to Co-create a Foundation for Indigenous Sport Research
Bridging the Generations: Cultural Mentorship to Promote Aging Indigenous Women's Health
Engaging Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Enhance Health and Wellness
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Expertise
Indigenous Health
Cardiovascular Health
Exercise
Women’s Health
Amanda Froehlich Chow
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
Gary Groot
Research Projects
The Indigenous Health Collective: Advancing Indigenous Health Knowledge in Saskatchewan.
Sâkipakâwin - Assessing the Support Needs for Saskatchewan Indigenous Cancer Patients and their Families: a Multi-method Study
Shared Decision Making in Early Stage Breast Cancer: The Development of a Culturally Competent Conceptual Framework Applicable for Aboriginal Patients.
Scaling up shared decision making for patient-centred care
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Expertise
Realist Review
Realist Research
Quality Improvement
Implementation Science
Indigenous Health
Heather Hadjistavropoulos
Research Projects
Optimizing Transdiagnostic Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Depression and Anxiety in Clinical Practice (e.g., personalizing amount of therapist support, homework records, duration of treatment, motivational interviewing, booster session).
Understanding and Improving Therapist Support during Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Increasing Uptake and Integration of Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Routine Care.
Tailoring and Evaluating Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Specialized Populations (e.g., public safety personnel, university students, alcohol misuse, insomnia, spinal cord injury, chronic health conditions).
Matching Patient Needs to Level and Duration of Therapist Support during Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Select Publications
Audit and feedback of therapist-assisted Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy with routine care: A quality improvement case study. Internet Interventions, 20. (link)
Development of the Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy undesirable therapist behaviours scale (ICBT-UTBS). Internet Interventions, 18, 1-9. (link)
Preference trial of Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy comparing standard weekly versus optional weekly therapist support. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 63, 51-60. (link)
Development and evaluation of a scale assessing therapist fidelity to guidelines for delivering therapist-assisted Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 6, 447-461. (link)
Randomized controlled trial of Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy comparing standard weekly versus optional weekly therapist support. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 52, 15-24. (link)
The University of Regina, Online Therapy Unit - video (link)
Research Expertise
Mental Health and Addictions
Digital mental health
Cognitive behaviour therapy
Chronic illness
Pain
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Research Projects
Research and Community Alliance for Quality of Life in Long Term Care (QOL Team).
Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an Automated Pain Detection System for Older Adults with Dementia.
Knowledge Mobilization Using Social Media.
Select Publications
Fundamentals of health psychology (2nd edition). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Behavioral Pain Assessment Implementation in Long-Term Care Using a Tablet App: Case Series and Quasi-Experimental Design. (link)
Pain assessment in elderly adults with dementia. (link)
Pain in severe dementia: A comparison of a fine-grained assessment approach to an observational checklist designed for clinical settings. (link)
Research Expertise
Health Psychology
Pain
Aging
Knowledge Mobilization
Shela Hirani
Research Projects
Breastfeeding Practices of Immigrant Mothers in Canada: A Critical Review
Project entitled “Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography
Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography
Select Publications
Maternal and Child Health During Forced Displacement (link)
Breastfeeding in Disaster Relief Camps: An Integrative Review of Literature (link)
Concept Analysis of Maternal Autonomy in the Context of Breastfeeding (link)
Perceived Breastfeeding Support Assessment Tool(PBSAT): Development and testing of Psychometric Properties with Pakistani Urban Working Mothers (link)
Expertise
Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Methods
Concept Analysis
Instrument Development
Natasha Hubbard Murdoch
hubbardmurdochn@saskpolytech.ca
Research Projects
Interprofessional Caregiver Research
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Expertise
Interprofessional Care
Interprofessional Education
Mixed Methods
Qualitative Methods
Michelle Johnson-Jennings
Research Projects
The “Food Wisdom” Repository: Information Resources for Native Nutritional Health (SEEDS Repository Prototype)
Yappalli: Choctaw Road to health
Global Indigenous Health: Creating Relationships for Indigenous Land-based Healing
Tangata Whenua Tangata Ora: Investigating health gain through whenua initiatives
Select Publications
Developing a Tribal Health Sovereignty Framework for Obesity Prevention (link)
Growing from Our Roots: Strategies for Developing Culturally Grounded Prevention Programs in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities (link)
Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Action: The Food Wisdom Repository (forthcoming)
Expertise
Indigenous Health Psychology
Land Based Health Psychology
Community Based Research
Indigenous Health
Sandy Kassir
Email:
Sandy.Kassir@saskhealthauthority.ca
Research Projects
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Exploring Mitochondrial System Properties of Neurodegenerative Diseases through Interactome Mapping (link)
An Efficient Lentiviral-based Proteomics Approach Identifies Mitochondrial Complexes with Neurodegenerative Function (link)
A Map of Human Mitochondrial Protein Interactions Linked to Neurodegeneration Reveals New Mechanisms of Redox Homeostasis and NF-κB Signaling (link)
Expertise
Internal Medicine
Clinical Research
Biostatistical Methods
Quantitative Methods
Epidemiology
Tarun Katapally
Research Projects
SMART Youth: A Digital Platform for Population Health Interventions (link)
SMART Indigenous Youth (link)
SMART Adults (link)
Select Publication
The SMART Study, a Mobile Health and Citizen Science Methodological Platform for Active Living Surveillance, Integrated Knowledge Translation, and Policy Interventions: Longitudinal Study (link)
Methodology to Derive Objective Screen-State from Smartphones: A SMART Platform Study (link)
Catalyzing Action on First Nations Respiratory Health Using Community-based Participatory Research: Integrated Knowledge Translation through Strategic Symposia (link)
A community-based participatory research methodology to address, redress, and reassess disparities in respiratory health among First Nations (link)
Expertise
Digital Epidemiology
Population Health Policy
Mobile Health
Alexandra King
Research Projects
The Butterfly Project: Exploring Patient-Centered Knowledge Mobilization
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Expertise
Indigenous Wellness
HIV and AIDS
Community Based Research
Arts Based Research
Land Based Research
Malcolm King
Research Projects
Development of the Patient-Oriented Research Level of Engagement Tool (PORLET)
Indigenous Knowledge Development Centres with a Focus on Wellness - Miyo-Pimâtisiwin
Select Publications
Water Journey: methods for exploring the research priorities for Indigenous peoples in Canada and hepatitis C
In the eyes of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Exposing the underlying colonial etiology of Hepatitis C & the imperative for trauma-informed care (link)
A Synthesis: Indigenous Wellness Indicators Day. IAPH-FNHA-IGIHM Conference Report, 2018
Expertise
Determinants of Indigenous Health
Social Determinants of Health
Wellness
Indigenous Health
Interdisciplinary
Margaret Kisikaw Piyesis
kisikawpiyesis@allnationshope.ca
Research Projects
Aboriginal HIV & AIDS Community-Based Research Collaborative Centre (link)
Development of the Aboriginal Women’s Research Initiative (AWRI)
Family Matters: Informing a family-based model of care with Aboriginal families affected by HIV
Stable Homes, Strong Families: Housing and Health for Aboriginal Peoples Living with HIV and AIDS
The Impacts of the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure on Indigenous People Living with HIV/AIDS: An Urban Case Study of Regina
Mâcîpiciw: Restoration of Indigenous men's roles and responsibilities
Kiskinowâpamew (s/he imitates her/him in order to learn): An Indigenous-led organization’s research journey
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Expertise
HIV and AIDS
Indigenous Wellness
Indigenous Health
Women and Gender
Bridget Klest
Research Projects
Exploring Institutional Betrayal in the Canadian Medical System
Select Publication
Assessing opinions on trauma-informed care in primary care (Poster Presentation)
Patients’ opinions on family physician training of trauma-informed care (Poster Presentation)
Patient dissatisfaction and institutional betrayal in the Canadian medical system: A qualitative study (link)
Betrayal Trauma, Healthcare Relationships, and Health in Patients with a Chronic Neurovascular Condition (link)
Institutional betrayal in the Canadian medical system: Reliability and validity of a self-report questionnaire (link)
A model exploring the relationship between betrayal trauma and health: The roles of mental health, attachment, trust in healthcare systems, and nonadherence to treatment (link)
Expertise
Clinical Psychology
Traumatic Stress
Institutional Betrayal
Katherine Knox
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