St. Joseph's Care Group

Publications

We produce numerous reports for internal audiences as well as publishing papers in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. In addition, staff from the Research Department has participated in approximately 100 presentations at local, national and international conferences.

Year 2008

Dubois S, Bédard M, Weaver B. The Impact of Benzodiazepines on Safe Driving. Traffic Injury Prevention (accepted).

Moustgaard A, Bédard M, Felteau M. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for individuals who had a stroke: Results from a pilot study. Journal of Cognitive Rehabilitation (accepted).

Haggarty JM, Cernovsky Z, Bédard M, Merskey H. Suicidality in a sample of Artic households. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior (accepted).

Socha T, Bédard M. Evaluation of Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario's Heart Healthy Kids Toolkit program implementation in Ontario elementary schools. Avante (accepted).

Bédard M, Porter MM, Marshal S, Isherwood I, Riendeau J, Weaver B, Tuokko H, Molnar F, Miller-Polgar J. The combination of two training approaches to improve older adults' driving safety. Traffic Injury Prevention 2008; 9:70-76.

Creese J, Bédard M, Brazil K, Chambers L. Sleep disturbances in spousal caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer disease. International Psychogeriatrics 2008; 20:149-161.

Gibbons C, Dubois S, Ross S, Parker B, Morris K, Lim T, Bédard M. Using the Resident Assessment Instrument - Mental Health (RAI-MH) to determine levels of care for individuals with serious mental illness. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 2008; 35:60-70.

Haggarty J, O'Connor B, Dubois S, Blackadar AM, McKinnon T, Boudreau D, Haslam D. Findings From the Northern Ontario Shared Mental Health Care Program: Changes in Patient Symptoms and Disability. Primary Care and Community Psychiatry 2008; 13:27-35.

Howard M, Goertzen J, Kaczorowski J, Hutchison B, Morris K, Thabane L, Levine M, Papaioannou A. Emergency department and walk-in clinic use in models of primary care practice with different after-hours accessibility in Ontario. Healthcare Policy, 2008; 4(1): 73-88.

Year 2007

Bédard M, Gibbons C, Dubois S. The needs of young, middle-aged, and older adults with a serious mental illness. Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine 2007; 12:167-175.

Bédard M, Dubois S, Weaver B. The impact of cannabis on driving. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2007; 98:6-11.

Dickerson AE, Molnar LJ, Eby DW, Adler G, Bédard M, Berg-Weger M, Classen S, Foley D, Horowitz A, Kerschner H, Page O, Silverstein NM, Staplin L, Trujillo L. Transportation and aging: A research agenda for advancing safe mobility. The Gerontologist 2007; 47:578-590.

Howard M, Goertzen J, Hutchison B, Kaczorowski J, Morris K. Patient satisfaction with care for urgent health problems: A survey of family practice patients. Annals of Family Medicine, 2007; 5:419-24.

Molloy DW, Standish TI, Niebor E, Turnbull J, Smith SD, Dubois S. Effects of Acute Exposure to Aluminum on Cognition in Humans. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A 2007; 70:2011-2019.

O'Donnell MJ, Lewis DL, Dubois S, Standish TIM, Bédard M, Molloy DW. Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Community-dwelling Elderly Persons with Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Prevalence and Factor Analysis. Clinical Gerontologist 2007; 30:41-52.

O'Rourke N, Bédard M, Bachner Y. Factor structure and invariance analyses of responses to the Dementia Behavior Disturbance Scale among community-dwelling and institutionalized persons with dementia. Aging and Mental Health 2007; 11:256-265.

Year 2006

Decaire M, Bédard M, Riendeau J, Forrest R. Incidents in a psychiatric forensic setting: Frequency and associations with patient and staff characteristics. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 2006; 38:68-80.

Molloy DW, Standish TI, Dubois S, Cunje A. A Short Screen for Depression: The AB Clinical Depression Screen (ABCDS). International Psychogeriatrics.2006 Sep;18(3):481-92.

Dayes I, Whelan T, Julian J, Kuettel M, Regmi D, Okawara GS, Patel M, Reiter HI, Dubois S. Cross-Border Referral for Early Breast Cancer: an Analysis of Radiation Fractionation Patterns. Current Oncology. 2006 July; Vol 13 (4).

Brazil K, Bédard M, Krueger P, Taniguchi A, Kelley ML, McAiney C, Justice C. Barriers to providing palliative care in long-term care facilities. Canadian Family Physician 2006; 52:472-480.

Bédard M, Leonard E, McAuliffe J, Gibbons C, Dubois S, Weaver B. Visual attention and older drivers: The contribution of inhibition of return to safe driving. Experimental Aging Research 2006; 32:119-135.

Brazil K, Krueger P, Bédard M, Kelly ML, McCainey C, Justice C, Taniguchi A. Quality of care for residents dying in Ontario long-term care facilities: Findings from a survey of directors of care. Journal of Palliative Care 2006; 22:18-26.

Year 2005

Brazil K, Howell D, Bédard M, Krueger P, Heidebrecht C. Preferences for place of care and place of death among informal caregivers of the terminally ill. Palliative Medicine 2005; 19:492-499.

Kumbhare D, Parkinson W, Boulos P, Balsor B, Harding P, Bédard M. Measurement of cervical flexor endurance following whiplash. Disability and Rehabilitation 2005; 27:801-807.

Bédard M, Felteau M, Gibbons C, Klein R, Mazmanian D, Fedyk K, Mack G. A mindfulness-based intervention to improve quality of life among individuals who sustained traumatic brain injuries: One-year follow-up. Journal of Cognitive Rehabilitation 2005; Spring:8-13.

Gibbons C, Bédard M, Mack G. A comparison of client and mental health worker assessment of needs and unmet needs. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 2005; 32:95-104.

Bédard M, Kuzik R, Chambers L, Molloy DW, Dubois S, Lever JA. Understanding burden differences between men and women caregivers: The contribution of care recipient behavior problems. International Psychogeriatrics 2005; 17:99-118.

Brazil K, Bédard M, Krueger P, Abernathy T, Lohfeld L, Willison K. Service preferences among family caregivers of the terminally ill. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2005; 8:69-78.

Year 2004

Bédard M, Isherwood I, Moore E, Gibbons C, Lindstrom W. Evaluation of a re-training program for older drivers. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2004; 95:295-298.

Bédard M, Myers J. The influence of passengers on older drivers involved in fatal crashes. Experimental Aging Research 2004; 30:205-215.

Bédard M, Koivuranta A, Stuckey A. Health impact of providing informal care to a cognitively impaired older adult: Rural versus urban settings. Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine 2004; 9:15-23.

Wright JR, Whelan TJ, Schiff S, Dubois S, Crooks D, Haines T, DeRosa D, Gafni A, Pritchard K, Levine M. Why do Cancer Patients Enter Randomized Clinical Trials? Exploring the Factors that Influence their Decision. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2004; 22; 21.

O'Donnell MJ, Molloy DW, Smith SD, Dubois S, Russo R. The Self-Perceived Role and Educational Needs of Pharmaceutical Representative: A Survey. Education for Health 2004; 17; 3.

Whelan TJ, Levine M, Sanders K, Willan A, Gafni A, Sanders K, Mirsky D, Chambers S, O'Brien MA, Reid S, Dubois S. Effect of a decision aid on knowledge and treatment decision making for breast cancer surgery: a randomized trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 2004; 292: 435-441.

Khan AA, Bilezikian JP, Kung AWC, Ahmed MM, Dubois SJ, Ho AYY, Motagally Z,Rubin M, Silverberg SJ, Standish TIM, Syed ZA. A Double Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial of Alendronate in Primary Hyperparathyroidism. Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2004; 89(7):3319-25.

 

-- Updated: September 1, 2009 --