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Leah Ferguson

Email

leah.ferguson@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Journeying Together to Co-Create a Foundation for Indigenous Sport Research

  • Sport History of the Indigenous Games

  • Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program in Saskatchewan

Select Publications

  • “It’s a big adjustment coming from the reserve to living in a totally different society”: Exploring the well-being of First Nations athletes playing sports in an urban mainstream context. (link)

  • “It’s more than just performing well in your sport. It’s also about being healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually”: Indigenous women athletes’ meanings and experiences of flourishing in sport. (link)

  • “I would love to blast some pow music and just dance”: First Nations students’ experiences of physical activity on campus. (link)

  • Narratives of adolescent women athletes’ body self-compassion, performance and emotional well-being. (link)

  • Enhancing capacity: Integrating self-compassion in sport. (link)

  • The agony of defeat: How Olympians can deal with failure. (link)

Expertise

  • Sports Psychology

  • Indigenous Health

  • Indigenous Wellness

  • Indigenous Sport

Heather Foulds

Email

heather.foulds@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Social and Cultural Impacts on Cardiovascular Health Determinants for Indigenous Women

  • Jigging our Health

  • Journeying Together to Co-create a Foundation for Indigenous Sport Research

  • Bridging the Generations: Cultural Mentorship to Promote Aging Indigenous Women's Health

  • Engaging Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Enhance Health and Wellness

Select Publications

Expertise

  • Indigenous Health

  • Cardiovascular Health

  • Exercise

  • Women’s Health

Amanda Froehlich Chow

Email

a.fc@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Listening and Learning: Applying a Community-Based Participatory Approach to the Design of a Physical Literacy Model Aimed at Supporting Indigenous Older Adults to Age in Place

  • A Physical Literacy Focused Approach to Building Bonds Among Indigenous Children, their Families and Communities

  • Interdisciplinary Primary Health Care Approaches to Dementia and Chronic Conditions: A Case Study

Select Publications

  • Collaborative Approaches to Team-Based Primary Health Care for Individuals with Dementia in Rural and Remote Settings: A Scoping Review. (link)

  • Healthy Start–Départ Santé: A pilot study of a multilevel intervention to increase physical activity, fundamental movement skills and healthy eating in rural childcare centres. (link)

  • Promoting Physical Activity, Healthy Eating and Physical Literacy Among Preschoolers Attending Childcare Centres Healthy Start-Départ Santé Intervention Using the RE-AIM Framework. (link)

Expertise

  • Physical Activity

  • Physical Literacy

  • Population Health Research

  • Early Childhood Development

  • Program Planning

  • Program Evaluation

Donna Goodridge

Email

donna.goodridge@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Building bridges to enhance interpersonal relationships

  • Improving Access to Support: Development and Evaluation of a Novel App for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia

Select Publications

  • “I just have to take it” – patient safety in acute care: perspectives and experiences of patients with chronic kidney disease (link)

  • Promoting chronic disease management in persons with complex social needs: A qualitative descriptive study (link)

Expertise

  • Patient-Centered

  • Health Systems Improvement

  • Chronic Illness

  • Aging

Gary Groot

Email

gary.groot@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • The Indigenous Health Collective: Advancing Indigenous Health Knowledge in Saskatchewan.

  • Sâkipakâwin - Assessing the Support Needs for Saskatchewan Indigenous Cancer Patients and their Families: a Multi-method Study

  • Shared Decision Making in Early Stage Breast Cancer: The Development of a Culturally Competent Conceptual Framework Applicable for Aboriginal Patients.

  • Scaling up shared decision making for patient-centred care

Select Publications

Expertise

  • Realist Review

  • Realist Research

  • Quality Improvement

  • Implementation Science

  • Indigenous Health

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

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos

Email

hadjistt@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Research and Community Alliance for Quality of Life in Long Term Care (QOL Team).

  • Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an Automated Pain Detection System for Older Adults with Dementia.

  • Knowledge Mobilization Using Social Media.

Select Publications

  • Fundamentals of health psychology (2nd edition). Toronto: Oxford University Press.

  • Behavioral Pain Assessment Implementation in Long-Term Care Using a Tablet App: Case Series and Quasi-Experimental Design. (link)

  • Pain assessment in elderly adults with dementia. (link)

  • Pain in severe dementia: A comparison of a fine-grained assessment approach to an observational checklist designed for clinical settings. (link)

Research Expertise

  • Health Psychology

  • Pain

  • Aging

  • Knowledge Mobilization

Shela Hirani

Email

shela.hirani@uregina.ca

Research Projects

  • Breastfeeding Practices of Immigrant Mothers in Canada: A Critical Review

  • Project entitled “Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography

  • Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography

Select Publications

  • Maternal and Child Health During Forced Displacement (link)

  • Breastfeeding in Disaster Relief Camps: An Integrative Review of Literature (link)

  • Concept Analysis of Maternal Autonomy in the Context of Breastfeeding (link)

  • Perceived Breastfeeding Support Assessment Tool(PBSAT): Development and testing of Psychometric Properties with Pakistani Urban Working Mothers (link)

Expertise

  • Qualitative Methods

  • Quantitative Methods

  • Concept Analysis

  • Instrument Development

Michelle Johnson-Jennings

Email

mjohnsonjennings@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • The “Food Wisdom” Repository: Information Resources for Native Nutritional Health (SEEDS Repository Prototype)

  • Yappalli: Choctaw Road to health

  • Global Indigenous Health: Creating Relationships for Indigenous Land-based Healing

  • Tangata Whenua Tangata Ora: Investigating health gain through whenua initiatives

Select Publications

  • Developing a Tribal Health Sovereignty Framework for Obesity Prevention (link)

  • Growing from Our Roots: Strategies for Developing Culturally Grounded Prevention Programs in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities (link)

  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Action: The Food Wisdom Repository (forthcoming)

Expertise

  • Indigenous Health Psychology

  • Land Based Health Psychology

  • Community Based Research

  • Indigenous Health

 

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