Anthony de Padua
Research Projects
Exploring the Experiences of Spirituality and Healing for Indigenous people living with HIV and the Co-creation of a Circle for Healing
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Expertise
HIV and AIDS
Qualitative Methods
Narrative Methods
Indigenous Health
Marjorie Delbaere
Research Projects
Persuading for good or persuading for gain: Examining persuasion knowledge through a social marketing lens.
The application service-dominant logic to understanding how arthritis patients and healthcare providers find value.
Contraceptive marketing: Attitudes and experiences in patients and providers.
Patient influencers: A marketplace approach to investigating the influence of expert patients.
The influence of analogies on consumer learning from direct to consumer drug advertising.
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Did online publishers "get it right"? Using a naturalistic search strategy to review cognitive health promotion content on Internet webpages (link)
Direct-to-consumer advertising and the role of hope (link)
Do consumers perceive their doctors as influenced by pharmaceutical marketing communications? A persuasion knowledge perspective (link)
Literally Experts: Expertise and the Processing of Analogical Metaphors in Pharmaceutical Advertising (link)
Metaphors and Myths in Pharmaceutical Advertising (link)
Expertise
Content Analysis
Social Media Data Capture and Analysis
Quantitative Methods
Experimental Stimuli Design
Colleen Anne Dell
Expertise
Animal Assisted Interventions
Knowledge Translation
Knowledge Mobilization
Mental Health & Addictions
Research Projects:
A Pawsitive Addition to the Emergency Room Patient Experience
The Impact of Service Dogs in the Lives of Veterans Who Problematically Use Opioids (link)
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A Case Study of the Patient Experience of Emergency Department Wait Times
A veteran’s best friend (link)
Senate of Canada: Open Caucus on The Opioid Crisis in Canada (link)
Impact of service dogs for veterans with PTSD and substance abuse (link), and (highlight video)
Studying Service Dogs (link)
Expertise
Animal Assisted Interventions
Knowledge Translation
Mental Health and Addictions
Jason Disano
Director
Social Sciences Research Laboratories (SSRL) (link)
Expertise
Social Research Methods
Research Design
Mixed Methods
Program Evaluation
Sarah Donkers
Research Projects
Individualized Behaviour Change Strategies for Physical Activity in Multiple Sclerosis
Rehabilitation Dog: A Novel Approach to Walking and Balance Training
The Provincial MS Care Pathways Implementation Project
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Expertise
Neurorehabilitation
Integrated Knowledge Translation
Behaviour Change
Tasha Epp
Research Projects
Pets and people in the gap: identifying perspectives on pets and pet health, working towards community-derived interventions to promote community health in communities under-served by veterinarians in Saskatchewan
Publications
The Community Dog Book (link)
Finding pathways for bite prevention and decreasing dog populations: The process of animal control for indigenous communities in Canada (link)
Expertise
Veterinary Medicine
Epidemiology
One Health
EcoHealth
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
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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
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“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
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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
Donna Goodridge
Research Projects
Building bridges to enhance interpersonal relationships
Improving Access to Support: Development and Evaluation of a Novel App for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia
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“I just have to take it” – patient safety in acute care: perspectives and experiences of patients with chronic kidney disease (link)
Promoting chronic disease management in persons with complex social needs: A qualitative descriptive study (link)
Expertise
Patient-Centered
Health Systems Improvement
Chronic Illness
Aging
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
Kristen Haase
Research Projects
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Expertise
Oncology
Older Adults
Apps for Patients
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.
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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.
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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
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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