Chronic illness

Marta Erlandson

Email

marta.erlandson@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Inventing Chronic Disease Management for Children with Congenital Heart Disease

  • Mending Little Hearts - Children’s Healthy-Heart Activity Monitoring Program in Saskatchewan (CHAMPS) (link)

Expertise

  • Child/Youth cardiac conditions and rehabilitation

  • Growth and development in children

  • Effects of physical activity and inactivity in children’s health

  • ActiGraph Accelerometers – physical activity measuring tool

  • DEXA Scans

  • Physical Literacy Theory

Heather Hadjistavropoulos

Email

hadjistt@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Optimizing Transdiagnostic Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Depression and Anxiety in Clinical Practice (e.g., personalizing amount of therapist support, homework records, duration of treatment, motivational interviewing, booster session).

  • Understanding and Improving Therapist Support during Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

  • Increasing Uptake and Integration of Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Routine Care.

  • Tailoring and Evaluating Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Specialized Populations (e.g., public safety personnel, university students, alcohol misuse, insomnia, spinal cord injury, chronic health conditions).

  • Matching Patient Needs to Level and Duration of Therapist Support during Internet-delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Select Publications

  • Audit and feedback of therapist-assisted Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy with routine care: A quality improvement case study. Internet Interventions, 20. (link)

  • Development of the Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy undesirable therapist behaviours scale (ICBT-UTBS). Internet Interventions, 18, 1-9. (link)

  • Preference trial of Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy comparing standard weekly versus optional weekly therapist support. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 63, 51-60. (link)

  • Development and evaluation of a scale assessing therapist fidelity to guidelines for delivering therapist-assisted Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 6, 447-461. (link)

  • Randomized controlled trial of Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy comparing standard weekly versus optional weekly therapist support. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 52, 15-24. (link)

  • The University of Regina, Online Therapy Unit - video (link)

Research Expertise

  • Mental Health and Addictions

  • Digital mental health

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy

  • Chronic illness

  • Pain

Kristi Wright

Email

Kristi.Wright@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Transforming Mental Health Prevention Service Delivery for Children and Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis: A Program of Research

  • Feasibility and pilot study of an interactive, internet-delivered prevention program for preoperative anxiety in children

  • Inventing Chronic Disease Management for Children with Congenital Heart Disease

Expertise

  • Cystic Fibrosis

  • Congenital Heart Disease

  • Anxiety

  • Children/Adolescents/Pediatrics

  • Mixed Methods