• Exercise rehabilitation in ventricular assist device recipients: a meta-analysis of effects on physiological and clinical outcomes 

  Grosman-Rimon, Liza; Lalonde, Spencer D.; Sieh, Nina; Pakosh, Maureen; Rao, Vivek; Oh, Paul; Grace, Sherry L. (Springer, 2019-01)

  Exercise rehabilitation in heart failure patients has been shown to improve quality of life (QoL) and survival. It is also recommended in clinical practice guidelines for ventricular assist device (VAD) recipients. However, ...

• Funding sources and costs to deliver cardiac rehabilitation around the globe: Drivers and barriers 

  Moghei, Mahshid; Pesah, Ella; Turk-Adawi, Karam; Supervia, Marta; Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco; Schraa, Ellen; Grace, Sherry L. (Elsevier, 2019-02)

  Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) reach is minimal globally, primarily due to financial factors. This study characterized CR funding sources, cost to patients to participate, cost to programs to serve patients, and ...

• Validation of the Physician Attitudes toward Cardiac Rehabilitation and Referral (PACRR) Scale 

  Lima de Melo Ghisi, Gabriela; Grace, Sherry L. (Elsevier, 2019-08)

  Methods: Data were retrospectively analysed from three cohorts administering the PACRR, a 19-item scale. The first cohort consisted of 185 cardiologists or family physicians; the second of 51 of the same, and the third of ...

• Effects of comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation on functional capacity in a middle-income country: a randomised controlled trial 

  Chaves, Gabriela Suellen da Silva; Lima de Melo Ghisi, Gabriela; Grace, Sherry L.; Oh, Paul; Ribeiro, Antonio L; Britto, Raquel (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-10-03)

  Objective: Despite the growing epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in middle-income countries, there is insufficient evidence about cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in these countries. Thus, the effects of comprehensive CR on ...

• Cardiac rehabilitation delivery in low/middle-income countries 

  Grace, Sherry L.; Pesah, Ella; Turk-Adawi, Karam; Supervia, Maria; Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco; Britto, Raquel; Ding, Rongjing; Babu, Abraham; Sadeghi, Masoumeh; Sarrafzadegan, Nizal; Cuenza, Lucky; Anchique Santos, Claudia; Heine, Martin; Derman, Wayne; Oh, Paul (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-06-28)

  Objective: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) availability, programme characteristics and barriers are not well-known in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). In this study, they were compared with high-income countries (HICs) and ...

• Indigenous Youth Mental Health in Canada: A WPR Approach to Canada's (In) Action in Response to Suicide Crises 

  Francavilla, Victoria; Hillier, Sean (2020-10-02)

  Across Canada, Indigenous Peoples have been resilient to active colonization for more than 400 years, all the while upholding their traditional values, systems, and ways of being. However, despite this resilience, Indigenous ...

• Ableism, Intersectionality, Power and Knowledge: The Complexities of Navigating Accommodations in Postsecondary Institutions 

  Brown, Zahra J. (2020-10-27)

  Although post-secondary educational institutions have been mandated by law to accommodate, the issue of students with disabilities receiving accommodation remains problematic. One factor that is relevant, but often overlooked, ...

• ICT-Based Interventions for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: Research Needs in Usability and Mental Health 

  El Morr, Christo; Layal, Manpreet (BMC Public Health, 2020-09-07)

  Intimate Partner Violence is a “global pandemic”. Meanwhile, information and communication technologies (ICT), such as the internet, mobile phones, and smartphones, are spreading worldwide, including in low- and middle-income ...

• The Problem of Power in ADHD: A Scoping Review 

  Joseph, Abraham (2020-06-10)

  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has become the most diagnosed mental health issue for children worldwide. There are substantive critiques of the psychiatric basis for the conceptualization, diagnosis, and ...

• Towards an Orthodox Marxist Critique of Critical Health Policy 

  Torrence, Ryan (2020-08-31)

  Critical health policy researchers have, over the past few decades, shown beyond doubt the connection between socioeconomic inequalities and disparities in health and disease outcomes. The evidence is strong enough that ...

• Youth Disability and the Post-conflict Justice Reform: A Case Study of Sierra Leone 

  Sesay, Hassan (2020-08-31)

  Disabled youth encounter systemic social injustice, social exclusion, social inequality, bias, anti-discrimination, and unjust incarceration within society and the justice system. In Sierra Leone, a developing country ...

• Embracing Ambiguity: Moving Toward Madness and Death in Performance 

  Sabada, SK (2020-08-24)

  This MRP comprises two inter-related papers examining the intimacies of death and dying and their relationship to madness through performance. The first paper focuses on the use of alternate reality games (ARGs) as a ...

• Disabling Access: Barriers to Eye Gaze Technology for Students with Disabilities 

  Sam, Alexander (2020-08-12)

  The MRP concludes that scientific and biomedical models of disability have historically shaped government policy responses to disability and continue to do so today. Canadian policy and programs meant to facilitate access ...

• Care Work in the Camp: An Institutional Ethnography of Care Work in Developmental Services through a Critical Examination of the Problematizations in SIPDDA and QAM 

  Fernandes, Sabine A. (2020-08-24)

  In this Major Research Paper (MRP) I provide an institutional ethnography of care work in developmental services in Ontario through a critical examination of the Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of ...

• Lights, Camera, Representation and Direction: How Hollywood, Netflix and other Media Empires Represent Race and Disability 

  Sandhu, Amrit (2020-04-08)

  Throughout history, racialized people, and people with disabilities have been harmed by negative stereotypes, especially through the intersection of ableism and racism, which is still going on today. This Major Research ...

• Follow-Up Study of Youth Who Received EIBI as Young Children 

  Perry, Adrienne; Koudys, Julie; Prichard, Alice; Ho, Hilda (Sage Publishing, 2019-03-01)

  Although early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) has been clearly shown to be evidence-based, there is very little information available regarding long-term outcomes, especially from community effectiveness studies. ...

• Age Related Differences in the Acute Pain Facial Expression During Infancy 

  O'Neill, Monica C; Ahola Kohut, Sara; Pillai Riddell, Rebecca; Oster, Harriet (European Journal of Pain, 2019-06)

  Background Oster's (2005) ontogenetic perspective on the development of emotional expressions in infants holds that infants’ facial and vocal expressions evolved to serve crucial communicative functions in infancy and ...

• Parent-led interventions in reducing infant vaccination pain after participation in a longitudinal randomized control trial 

  McNair, Caitlin; Fung, Many; Taddio, Anna; Ipp, Moshe; moss, steven; Baker, Stephen; Tolkin, Jonathan; Dave, Malini; Feerasta, Sharmeen; Govan, Preeya; Pillai Riddell, Rebecca (Paediatrics & Child Health, 2017-04)

• The ABCDs of Pain Management: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Impact of a Brief Educational Video on Infants’ and Toddlers’ Pain Scores and Parent Soothing Behavior 

  Pillai Riddell, Rebecca; O'Neill, Monica C; Campbell, Lauren; Taddio, Anna; Greenberg, Saul; Garfield, Hartley (Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2017-11)

  Objectives To test the efficacy of a brief behavioral pain management strategy (The ABCDs of Needle Pain Management), delivered via video, on infants’ and toddlers’ pain scores and on parental soothing behavior. Methods ...

• Understanding the Relative Contributions of Sensitive and Insensitive Parent Behaviors on Infant Vaccination Pain 

  Badovinac, Shaylea; Gennis, Hannah; Pillai Riddell, Rebecca; Garfield, Hartley; Greenberg, Saul (Children, 2018-06)

  Parents play a critical role in supporting infants’ ability to manage strong emotions. Routine vaccinations provide an ideal context to observe the effect of parents’ behaviors on infants’ pain-related distress. Previous ...

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