• A systematic review of patient education in cardiac patients: Do they increase knowledge and promote health behavior change? 

  Lima de Melo Ghisi, Gabriela; Abdallah, Flavia; Grace, Sherry; Thomas, Scott; Oh, Paul (Elsevier, 2014-05)

  Objective: (1) to investigate the impact of education on patients’ knowledge; (2) to determine if educational interventions are related to health behavior change in cardiac patients; and (3) to describe the nature of ...

• Healthcare Providers’ Awareness of the Information Needs of their Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients throughout the Program Continuum 

  Lima de Melo Ghisi, Gabriela; Grace, Sherry; Thomas, Scott; Evans, Michael; Sawula, Heather; Oh, Paul (Elsevier, 2014-04)

  Objectives: to: (1) describe cardiac rehabilitation (CR) participant information needs, (2) investigate whether CR providers are cognizant of patient’s information needs and preferred delivery formats, and (3) whether ...

• Influence of sex, menstrual cycle, and oral contraceptives on the cerebrovascular response to paced deep breathing 

  Nili, Misha; Abidi, Syed; Serna, Stephania; Kim, Simon; Edgell, Heather (Springer, 2017-08-01)

  Purpose Deep breathing assesses autonomic function; however, many researchers/clinicians do not account for hyperventilation, brain blood flow or blood pressure. Methods Men and women (with/without oral contraceptives) ...

• Adult Congenital Heart Disease-Coping And REsilience (ACHD-CARE): Rationale and methodology of a pilot randomized controlled trial 

  Kovacsa, Adrienne H.; Irvine, Jane; Silversides, Candice K.; Nolan, Robert; Kentner, Amanda C.; Grace, Sherry; Bandyopadhyay, Mimi; Kovacs, Adrienne H. (Elsevier, 2015-11)

  Background and Aim: As a result of significant advances in diagnosis and treatment, approximately 90% of infants born with congenital heart disease (CHD) are now expected to reach adulthood. However, an increased risk of ...

• Community-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Maintenance Programs: Use and Effects 

  Mandic, Sandra; Body, Dianne; Barclay, Leanne; Walker, Robert; Nye, Edwin R; Grace, Sherry; Williams, Michael JA (https://www.heartlungcirc.org/, 2015-07)

  Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) graduates are encouraged to attend maintenance programs to promote long-term physical activity and preserve gains in function. This study describes the characteristics, attendance ...

• Patient Safety Culture (PSC) perceptions of front-line staff in acute care hospitals: Examining the role of ease of reporting, group norms of openness, and participative leadership 

  Grace, Sherry; Chuang, You-Ta; Ginsburg, Liane; Zaheer, Shahram (Wolters Kluwer, 2015-01)

  Background: Increased awareness regarding the importance of patient safety issues has led to the proliferation of theoretical conceptualizations, frameworks, and papers that apply safety experiences from high-reliability ...

• Disease-related knowledge in cardiac rehabilitation enrollees: Correlates and changes 

  Grace, Sherry; Motamedi, Nickan; Britto, Raquel; Lima de Melo Ghisi, Gabriela (Elsevier, 2015-04)

  Objectives: to describe (1)patients’ disease-related knowledge at cardiac rehabilitation(CR)entry; (2)correlates of this knowledge; (3)whether CR completion is related to knowledge; and (4)behavioral correlates of knowledge. ...

• Cardiac Rehabilitation Services in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review 

  Grace, Sherry; Jiang, Xiaolian; Perez-Terzic, Carmen; Shanmugasegaram, Shamila (Wolters Kluwer, 2014-09)

  Background: Despite the decreasing rate of cardiovascular disease-related mortality in developed nations, low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing an increase. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) successfully ...

• Cardiac Rehabilitation Services in Ontario: Components, Models, and Under-Served Groups 

  Grace, Sherry; Faire, Terry; Oh, Paul; Priorc, Peter L.; Tan, Yongyao; Polyzotis, Peter A. (Wolters Kluwer, 2012-11)

  Aims Cardiac rehabilitation programs develop in accordance with guidelines, but also in response to local needs and resources. This study evaluated features of Ontario cardiac rehabilitation programs in accordance with ...

• Perceptions of cardiac rehabilitation patients, specialists and rehabilitation programs regarding cardiac rehabilitation wait times 

  Chessex, Caroline; Simpson, Chris; Tan, Yongyao; Grace, Sherry (Wolters Kluwer, 2012-05)

  BACKGROUND: Access to cardiac rehabilitation (CR) remains at approximately 30%, despite a national target of 70%. This study evaluated cardiac specialist and CR program perceptions of CR access and referral strategies. METHODS: ...

• Photo Elicitation Interview (PEI): Using Photos to Elicit Children’s Perspectives 

  epstein, iris; Baruchel, Sylvain; Stevens, Bonnie; McKeever, Patricia (Sage Journals, 2006-09)

  When conducting photo elicitation interviews (PEI), researchers introduce photographs into the interview context. Although PEI has been employed across a wide variety of disciplines and participants, little has been written ...

• Nursing students’ experiences on blogging in the classroom: Linking between ethics and pedagogy 

  epstein, iris; Ray, Ashleigh (Sciedu Press, 2014-01)

  This paper reports students’ perspectives on using blogging in an undergraduate nursing classroom. Blogging refers to a series of entries with limited word count. Several anecdotal reports focus on the potential advantages ...

• The practice and teaching of palpation of the head and neck: A scoping review 

  epstein, iris; Herne, P.; Masita, S.; Peisachovich, E.; Eliadis, M.; Robinson, B.; Lee, C. P.; Grosman-Rimon, L.; Silva, C. (Sciedu Press, 2017-07)

  Objective: To explore how palpation of the head and neck is practiced and taught. Methods: The scoping review methodology was guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s five-stage approach. Three experienced and independent reviewers ...

• Refugee smartphone access to health care in Canada: Concept analysis 

  epstein, iris; Nguyen, Jade; Balaquiao, Lorivie; Chang, Kai Ya (Sciedu Press, 2019-01)

  Objective: With the ever-changing smartphone healthcare technology also comes nurses’ responsibilities to recognize its ethical implications particularly among vulnerable population. The aim of this paper is to explore ...

• “A video of myself helps me learn”: A scoping review of the evidence of video-making for situated learning 

  epstein, iris; Baljko, Melanie; Thumlert, Kurt; Kelly, Evadne; Smith, James Andrew; Su, Yelin; ZakiAzat, Justeena; May, Natasha M. (Georgia Southern University, 2020)

  Nursing, dance and studio-based arts, engineering, and athletic therapy are viewed as practice-oriented professions in which the teaching and situated learning of practical skills are central. In order to succeed, students ...

• Cardiac Rehabilitation Outcomes by Ethnocultural Background: Results from the Canadian Cardiac Rehab Registry 

  Oh, Paul; Grace, Sherry; Findlay, B. (Wolters Kluwer, 2017-09)

  Background: Patients of diverse ethnocultural backgrounds are underrepresented among participants and, hence, little is known about their outcomes. The objectives of this study were to compare cardiac rehabilitation (CR) ...

• Longitudinal and Concurrent Relationships Between Caregiver-Child Behaviours in the Vaccination Context and Preschool Attachment 

  O'Neill, Monica C; Pillai Riddell, Rebecca; Bureau, Jean-François; Deneault, Audrey-Ann; Garfield, Hartley; Greenberg, Saul (Pain, 2020-09)

  The present paper consists of two separate studies in which the overarching aim was to examine the relationships between caregiver-child behaviours in the vaccination context (infant and preschool) and preschool attachment ...

• Women’s Health Behaviors and Psychosocial Well-Being by Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Model: A Randomized Controlled Trial 

  Midence, Liz; Arthur, Heather M.; Oh, Paul; Stewart, Donna Eileen; Grace, Sherry (Elsevier, 2016-08)

  Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is associated with significantly lower mortality and improved psychosocial well-being. However, women are less likely to participate than men. This trial tested whether participation ...

• Sex Differences in Cardiac Rehabilitation Adherence: A Meta-analysis 

  Oosenbrug, Eric; Marinho, Raquel; Zhang, Jie; Marzolini, Susan; Colella, Tracey JF; Pakosh, Maureen; Grace, Sherry (Elsevier, 2016-11)

  Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) participation is associated with significantly lower mortality, and this benefit has been established as dose-dependent. Given it has been suggested that women adhere less than men, ...

• Secondary Prevention Recommendation Attainment with Cardiac Rehabilitation: Is there a Gender Disparity? 

  Turk-Adawi, Karam; Oldridge, Neil B.; Vitcenda, Mark J.; Tarima, Sergey S.; Grace, Sherry (Elsevier, 2016-05)

  Background: Achievement of secondary prevention guideline recommendations (i.e., goals) with cardiac rehabilitation(CR)is not well documented, specifically for women. This study examined achievement of the American Heart ...

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