A5044378251- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Community Health and Development
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
University of Saskatchewan
2016-2025
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
2004-2025
McMaster University
2009
Carleton University
2001-2003
This article explores the application of two-eyed seeing in first year a three-year study about effectiveness cultural interventions First Nations alcohol and drug treatment Canada. Two-eyed is recognized by Canada's major health research funder as starting point for bringing together strengths Indigenous Western ways knowing. With aim developing culture-based measurement tool, our team carried out an Indigenous-centred process with interpretation guiding principle. enabled us to engage...
There is a need for Indigenous-centered research to appraise culture's role in wellness. Researchers described the development and validity of Native Wellness Assessment (NWATM). The NWA has culture-as-intervention at its apex. Wellness, culture, cultural intervention practices (CIPs) are explored from an Indigenous perspective. clients completed matching self-report observer versions three time points during addictions treatment. Statistically psychometrically, content structure performed...
In Canada, funding, administration, and delivery of health services-including those targeting people who use drugs-are primarily the responsibility provinces territories. Access to harm reduction services varies across jurisdictions, possibly reflecting differences in provincial territorial policy commitments. We examined quality current policies relative how well official documents reflect internationally recognized principles attributes a approach.We employed an iterative search screening...
ABSTRACT Many hundreds of household and industrial products can be volatilized readily are subject to abuse. Inhalant abuse research has been hampered by a lack consensus on whether or not there subclassifications abused inhalants based chemical structure, form intended use the product pharmacological properties. This paper discusses strengths weaknesses various approaches classification suggests areas for future in this area. It is concluded that types useful scientific purposes; rather,...
Abstract Background People who inject drugs (PWID) often encounter barriers when attempting to access health care and social services. In our previous study conducted identify accessing from the perspective of PWIDs in Saskatoon, Canada: poverty, lack personal support, discrimination, poor knowledge coordination service providers among other key were identified. The purpose present investigation was explore what perceive be greatest for receive optimal care. This is an exploratory with a...
We described public views toward harm reduction among Canadian adults and tested a social exposure model predicting support for these contentious services, drawing on theories in the morality policy, intergroup relations, addiction, media communication literatures. A quota sample of 4645 (18+ years), randomly drawn from an online research panel stratified to match age sex distributions within across provinces, was recruited June 2018. Participants completed survey items assessing people who...
Abstract Background Harm reduction is a health-centred approach that seeks to reduce the health and social harms associated with high-risk behaviors, such as illicit drug use. The objective of this study determine association between beliefs group adult, male prisoners in Iran about transmission HIV their practices while prison. Methods A cross-sectional was conducted 2004. population random selection 100 men incarcerated at Rajaei-Shahr data were collected through self-administered...
This special issue of Substance Use & Misuse addresses the public health volatile substance misuse (VSM), inhalation gases or vapors for psychoactive effects, assessing similarities and differences in products misused, patterns, prevalence, etiologies, impacts VSM by examining it through sociocultural epidemiology, neuroscience, interventions research. The Canadian, US, Australian guest editors contend that, when compared with other drugs used at a similar has attracted relatively little...