A5082876703- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Older Adults Driving Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Sleep and related disorders
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Ottawa Hospital
2011-2022
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
2008-2022
University of Virginia
2021
University of Ottawa
2008-2018
University of Mississippi
2014
University of California, San Francisco
2012
University of Manitoba
1989-2009
CancerCare Manitoba
2000-2009
Grey Nuns Community Hospital
2007-2009
University of Calgary
2002-2009
Insomnia and depression are common problems for people with chronic pain, previous research has found that each is correlated measures of pain disability. The goal this study was to examine the combined impact major insomnia on individuals pain.The participants were patients musculoskeletal who underwent evaluation at an interdisciplinary treatment center. On basis semistructured interviews, classified in three groups depending whether they: (1) met criteria (n = 38); (2) had without 58); or...
Sixty participants with insomnia secondary to chronic pain were assigned randomly either a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or self-monitoring/waiting-list control condition. The consisted of multicomponent 7-week group intervention aimed at promoting good sleep habits, teaching relaxation skills, and changing negative thoughts about sleep. Treated significantly more improved than on self-report measures onset latency, wake time after onset, efficiency, quality, they showed less motor...
Recent research into the desire for death among people with terminal illness has begun to recognize importance of "feeling oneself a burden others" as factor in suicidal behaviour. In this study, 69 patients advanced cancer underwent semi‐structured interviews. The sense self‐perceived was found be common experience, reported by 39.1% participants minimal or mild concern and 38% moderate extreme concern. showed low correlation physical symptoms (r = 0.02–0.24) higher correlations...
Purpose The alleviation of suffering is a central goal palliative care, but little research has addressed the construct as global experience whole person. We inquired into sense among patients with advanced cancer to investigate its causes and correlates. Patients Methods Semistructured interviews were administered 381 patients. about physical symptoms, social concerns, psychological problems, existential issues. also asked, “In an overall, general sense, do you feel that are suffering?”...
To investigate the attitudes of terminally ill individuals toward legalization euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and to identify those who would personally desire such a death.In Canadian National Palliative Care Survey, semistructured interviews were administered 379 patients receiving palliative care for cancer. Patients expressed physician-hastened death followed prospectively.Attitudes PAS determined, as was personal interest in hastened death. Demographic clinical...
Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that can have an impact on various facets of interpersonal functioning. Although some studies examined the extent to which family members are affected by individual's chronic pain, none patients' perceptions feeling they become burden others. Research self-perceived in different medical populations, such as cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and stroke, has shown it associated with physical symptoms and, more robustly, psychological difficulties...
We examined the sense of being a burden to others or self-perceived (SPB) in people with stroke.A mail survey was completed by 57 former inpatients and their partner caregivers. The care recipient included measures functional status, quality life, marital satisfaction, equity relationship, psychological distress, as well SPB using Self-Perceived Burden Scale (SPBS; Cousineau, McDowell, Hotz, & Hébert, 2003). caregiver similar addition measure.SPB found be prevalent distressing concern. SPBS...
To facilitate efficient screening and reduce the length of comprehensive self-report batteries, a four-item short form Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) two-item Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ) have been developed evaluated in samples patients with arm upper extremity pain.The first aim this study was to evaluate these forms heterogeneous sample seeking treatment for chronic musculoskeletal pain, using priori criteria determining adequate internal consistency, construct validity...
The desire for death in terminally ill patients is associated with depression and anxiety, but not all who report it meet criteria mental disorders. We examined the characteristics of subgroups palliative cancer expressed a that occurred either or without concurrent depressive anxiety disorder.Cross-sectional survey.Eight Canadian care programs.377 cancer.Desire Death Rating Scale; Structured Interview Symptoms Concerns.Most participants (69.5%) had no death. Of remainder, 69 (18.3%)...
Background: In jurisdictions that permit euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, patients with cancer comprise the largest group to die by these methods.We investigated personal attitudes toward practices of receiving palliative care for advanced cancer.Methods: Seventy (32 men and 38 women; median survival, 44.5 days) took part in a survey using in-depth semistructured interviews.The interviews were audiotaped transcription content analysis themes.Results: Most participants (73%) believed...
Insomnia is a significant problem for many people with chronic pain. In this study, we used combination of daily sleep diaries and ambulatory activity monitoring (actigraphy) to: (i) examine the nature severity disturbance in patient group; (ii) determine concordance between diary actigraph measures different parameters; (iii) assess reliability parameters across nights; (iv) identify clinical correlates insomnia severity. Forty subjects associated musculoskeletal pain completed...
Twenty adolescents who had made suicide attempts were compared with 20 nonpsychiatric control subjects on measures of problem solving, stress, and coping. The suicidal group did not show evidence "rigid" thinking or deficits in the ability to generate solutions standardized interpersonal problems. However, they report recent histories more severe life stress inaccurate appraisal extent which stressful events could be controlled. Although patients able as many adaptive strategies for coping...