• Importance of safety climate, teamwork climate and demographics: understanding nurses, allied health professionals and clerical staff perceptions of patient safety 

  Zaheer, Shahram; Ginsburg, Liane R; Wong, Hannah J; Thomson, Kelly; Bain, Lorna (BMJ, 2018-11-28)

  Background: There is growing evidence regarding the importance of contextual factors for patient/staff outcomes and the likelihood of successfully implementing safety improvement interventions such as checklists; however, ...

• Models of Concurrent Disorder Service: Policy, Coordination, and Access to Care 

  Wiktorowicz, Mary; Abdulle, Aber; Di Pierdomenico, Kaitlin; Boamah, Sheila A. (Frontiers, 2019-02-19)

  Background: Societal capacity to address the service needs of persons with concurrent mental health and substance-use disorders has historically been challenging given a traditionally siloed approach to mental health and ...

• Female Mice Have Higher Angiogenesis in Perigonadal Adipose Tissue Than Males in Response to High-Fat Diet 

  Rudnicki, Martina; Abdifarkosh, Ghoncheh; Rezvan, Omid; Nwadozi, Emmanuel; Roudier, Emilie; Haas, Tara L. (Frontiers, 2018-10-23)

  Background: Impaired capillary growth (angiogenesis) in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue contributes to the development of metabolic disorders in obese males. This association remains unexplored in females, despite ...

• Sexual communal motivation in couples coping with low sexual interest/arousal: Associations with sexual well-being and sexual goals 

  Hogue, Jacqueline V.; Rosen, Natalie O.; Bockaj, Amanda; Impett, Emily A.; Muise, Amy (PLOS, 2019-07-17)

  Women coping with female sexual interest/arousal disorder (FSIAD) report lower sexual and relationship satisfaction compared to healthy controls. In community samples, high sexual communal strength (i.e., the motivation ...

• The fast contribution of visual-proprioceptive discrepancy to reach aftereffects and proprioceptive recalibration 

  Ruttle, Jennifer E.; ‘t Hart, Bernard Marius; Henriques, Denise Y. P. (PLOS, 2018-07-17)

  Adapting reaches to altered visual feedback not only leads to motor changes, but also to shifts in perceived hand location; “proprioceptive recalibration”. These changes are robust to many task variations and can occur ...

• What image features guide lightness perception? 

  Kim, Minjung; Gold, Jason M.; Murray, Richard F. (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2018-12-04)

  Lightness constancy is the ability to perceive black and white surface colors under a wide range of lighting conditions. This fundamental visual ability is not well understood, and current theories differ greatly on what ...

• Factors Associated with Premenstrual Syndrome and its Different Symptom Domains among University Students in Lebanon 

  Costanian, Christy; Akiki, Zeina; Rabah, Zeinab; Daou, Safaa; Assaad, Shafika (ClinMed International Library, 2018-04-21)

  Objectives: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and examine the characteristics of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) among female university students. It also aimed to determine the factors associated with the affective ...

• Interventions to Promote Patient Utilization of Cardiac Rehabilitation: Cochrane Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 

  Pio, Carolina Santiago de Araújo; Chaves, Gabriela; Davies, Philippa; Taylor, Rod; Grace, Sherry (MDPI, 2019-02-05)

  Too few patients utilize cardiac rehabilitation (CR), despite its benefits. The Cochrane review assessing the effectiveness of interventions to increase CR utilization (enrolment, adherence, and completion) was updated. A ...

• Barriers to cardiac rehabilitation delivery in a low-resource setting from the perspective of healthcare administrators, rehabilitation providers, and cardiac patients 

  Sérvio, Thaianne Cavalcante; Britto, Raquel Rodrigues; Ghisi, Gabriela Lima de Melo; da Silva, Lilian Pinto; Silva, Luciana Duarte Novais; Lima, Márcia Maria Oliveira; Pereira, Danielle Aparecida Gomes; Grace, Sherry L. (Biomed Central, 2019-09-02)

  Background: Despite clinical practice guideline recommendations that cardiovascular disease patients participate, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs are highly unavailable and underutilized. This is particularly true in ...

• Early myopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy is associated with elevated mitochondrial H2O2 emission during impaired oxidative phosphorylation 

  Hughes, Meghan C.; Ramos, Sofhia V.; Turnbull, Patrick C.; Rebalka, Irena A.; Cao, Andrew; Monaco, Cynthia M.F.; Varah, Nina E.; Edgett, Brittany A.; Huber, Jason S.; Tadi, Peyman; Delfinis, Luca J.; Schlattner, U.; Simpson, Jeremy A.; Hawke, Thomas J.; Perry, Christopher G.R. (Wiley, 2019-04-02)

  Background Muscle wasting and weakness in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) causes severe locomotor limitations and early death due in part to respiratory muscle failure. Given that current clinical practice focuses on ...

• Space and time in episodic memory: Effects of linearity and directionality on memory for spatial location and temporal order in children and adults 

  Pathman, Thanujeni; Coughlin, Christine; Ghetti, Simona (PLOS, 2018-11-08)

  Episodic memory is a critical capacity that involves remembering past events along with their spatial and temporal contexts. Relatively little is known about the relations between spatial and temporal information in long-term ...

• Women in clinical trials: a review of policy development and health equity in the Canadian context 

  Yakerson, Alla (Biomed Central, 2019-04-15)

  Health equity in pharmaceutical research is concerned with creating equal opportunities for men and women to partake in clinical trials. Equitable representation is imperative for determining the safety, effectiveness, and ...

• Associations between mother-preschooler attachment and maternal depression symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis 

  Badovinac, Shaylea; Martin, Jodi; Guérin-Marion, Camille; O’Neill, Monica; Riddell, Rebecca Pillai; Bureau, Jean-François; Spiegel, Rebecca (PLOS, 2018-10-02)

  The current study aimed to systematically review and meta-analyze concurrent and longitudinal associations between maternal depression symptoms and mother-child attachment during the preschool period (aged 2 to 7 years) ...

• A Longitudinal Examination of the Social-Ecological Correlates of Exercise in Men and Women Following Cardiac Rehabilitation 

  Moghei, Mahshid; Reid, Robert D.; Wooding, Evyanne; Ghisi, Gabriela Melo; Pipe, Andrew; Chessex, Caroline; Prince, Stephanie A.; Blanchard, Chris; Oh, Paul; Grace, Sherry L. (MDPI, 2019-02-16)

  Cardiac patients who engage in ≥150 min of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA)/week have lower mortality, yet MVPA declines even following cardiac rehabilitation (CR), and is lower in women. A randomized ...

• Masters or pawns? Examining injury and chronic disease in male Masters Athletes and chess players compared to population norms from the Canadian Community Health Survey 

  Patelia, Shruti; Stone, Rachael C.; El-Bakri, Rona; Adli, Mehrnaz; Baker, Joseph (Biomed Central, 2018-11-30)

  Background: Identifying the optimal type and amount of activity for the maintenance of function in older adults has proved challenging. On the one hand, Masters Athletes have been proposed as the ideal model of successful ...

• Unweighted regression models perform better than weighted regression techniques for respondent-driven sampling data: results from a simulation study 

  Avery, Lisa; Rotondi, Nooshin; McKnight, Constance; Firestone, Michelle; Smylie, Janet; Rotondi, Michael (Biomed Central, 2019-10-29)

  Background: It is unclear whether weighted or unweighted regression is preferred in the analysis of data derived from respondent driven sampling. Our objective was to evaluate the validity of various regression models, ...

• Altered white matter connectivity associated with visual hallucinations following occipital stroke 

  Rafique, Sara A.; Richards, John R.; Steeves, Jennifer K. E. (Wiley, 2018-05-21)

  Introduction: Visual hallucinations that arise following vision loss stem from aberrant functional activity in visual cortices and an imbalance of activity across associated cortical and subcortical networks subsequent to ...

• Dental care use by immigrant Canadians in Ontario: a cross-sectional analysis of the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 

  Mehra, Vrati M.; Costanian, Christy; Khanna, Siya; Tamim, Hala (Biomed Central, 2019-05-08)

  Background: Ontario is home to the largest number of immigrants in Canada. However, very little is known about their dental care utilization patterns. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of poor dental ...

• Maintenance of Gains, Morbidity, and Mortality at 1 Year Following Cardiac Rehabilitation in a Middle‐Income Country: A Wait‐List Control Crossover Trial 

  Chaves, Gabriela S. S.; Ghisi, Gabriela Lima de Melo; Britto, Raquel R.; Grace, Sherry L. (American Heart Association, 2019-02-15)

  Background-—Despite the epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in middle-income countries, few trials are testing the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation (CR). This trial assessed (1) maintenance of functional capacity, risk ...

• Transnational pharmacogovernance: emergent patterns in the jazz of pharmaceutical policy convergence 

  Wiktorowicz, Mary; Moscou, Kathy; Lexchin, Joel (Biomed Central, 2018-08-22)

  Background: As a transnational policy network, the International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) aligns international regulatory standards to ...

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