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Sertraline and/or interpersonal psychotherapy for patients with dysthymic disorder in primary care: 6-month comparison with longitudinal 2-year follow-up of effectiveness and costsGina Browne
System Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilization, McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, HSC 3N46, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
J Affect Disord 68:317-30. 2002..There is little information on the long-term effects and costs of a combination of Sertraline and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for the treatment of dysthymia in primary care...
The effects and costs of a multifactorial and interdisciplinary team approach to falls prevention for older home care clients 'at risk' for falling: a randomized controlled trialMaureen Markle-Reid
McMaster University, School of Nursing, Hamilton, Ontario
Can J Aging 29:139-61. 2010..Quality of life was improved, slips and trips were reduced, as were falls among males (75-84 years old) with a fear of falling or negative fall history...- Impact of support services provided by a community-based AIDS service organization on persons living with HIV/AIDSJoan Crook
Community-Linked Evaluation AIDS Resource CLEAR Unit, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 16:39-49. 2005..The results suggest community-based services can enhance health-related quality of life for persons living with HIV/AIDS by increasing providers' capacity to identify and address client depression and its consequences... - A primary care cardiovascular risk reduction clinic in Canada was more effective and no more expensive than usual on-demand primary care--a randomised controlled trialMichael Mills
Caroline Medical Group, ystem Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilisation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Health Soc Care Community 18:30-40. 2010..A CaRR clinic is more effective in reducing CVD risk after 1 year compared with nurse phone intervention and usual care with no additional expense found... - Burden of dysthymia and comorbid illness in adults in a Canadian primary care setting: high rates of psychiatric illness in the offspringBarbara Bell
System-Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilization, McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, HSC-3N46, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
J Affect Disord 78:73-80. 2004..CONCLUSION: This analysis demonstrated the burden of illness and costs that this disorder imposes on individuals, their families, and society as a whole... - Interprofessional stroke rehabilitation for stroke survivors using home careMaureen Markle-Reid
School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Can J Neurol Sci 38:317-34. 2011..To compare a specialized interprofessional team approach to community-based stroke rehabilitation with usual home care for stroke survivors using home care services... - Evaluating health-related quality of life and priority health problems in patients with prostate cancer: a strategy for defining the role of the advanced practice nurseDenise Bryant-Lukosius
School of Nursing and Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Can Oncol Nurs J 20:5-14. 2010..They may benefit more from an APN role that can provide ongoing rather than episodic supportive care to assess and manage the multiple, new, and worsening health problems associated with progressive disease... - Recreation for children on social assistance, 4-17 years old, pays for itself the same yearMarilyn Ott
School of Nursing, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, HSC 2J21, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
J Public Health (Oxf) 28:203-8. 2006..This group also proved to have improvement of the global socioeconomic status, with a 10% greater exit from the social assistance program within 1 year... - An Ontario initiative to enhance the effectiveness of AIDS Service Organizations: Community-Linked Evaluation of AIDS ResourcesGina Browne
CLEAR Unit, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 16:49-52. 2005..The AIDS Bureau of the Ontario Provincial Government established the Community-Linked Evaluation of AIDS Resources Unit (CLEAR), which works in partnership with the AIDS Bureau and 31 of 74 AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) in Ontario... - Community-based HIV education and prevention workers respond to a changing environmentDale Guenter
Department of Family, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 16:29-36. 2005..Understanding these points of tension is important for the nursing profession when it is engaged with ASOs in programming or evaluation research... 
Reducing depression in older home care clients: design of a prospective study of a nurse-led interprofessional mental health promotion interventionMaureen F Markle-Reid
School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
BMC Geriatr 11:50. 2011....- A comparative assessment of attendance and nonattendance at Camp Trillium by children with cancer and their families; including their utilization of health and social servicesRonald D Barr
McMaster Children s Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 32:358-65. 2010..The biggest camp for children with cancer and their families provided an opportunity to conduct such an investigation... - A cross-sectional study of the prevalence, correlates, and costs of falls in older home care clients 'at risk' for fallingMaureen Markle-Reid
McMaster University, School of Nursing, Hamilton, Ontario
Can J Aging 29:119-37. 2010..g., cognitive impairment, Parkinson's disease), age >or= 85 years, environmental hazards, previous slip or trip, and visual impairment... - Recovery-oriented service provision and clinical outcomes in assertive community treatmentSean A Kidd
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Psychiatr Rehabil J 34:194-201. 2011..The present study was designed to examine the relationship between recovery-orientation of service provision for persons with severe mental illnesses and outcomes in Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)... - Effects of cultural sensitivity training on health care provider attitudes and patient outcomesBasanti Majumdar
School of Nursing, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Room HSC 3N28, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
J Nurs Scholarsh 36:161-6. 2004.... - Health promotion for frail older home care clientsMaureen Markle-Reid
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Health Research Personnel Development Fund, Ontario, Canada
J Adv Nurs 54:381-95. 2006..This paper reports a study evaluating the comparative effects and costs of a proactive nursing health promotion intervention in addition to usual home care for older people compared with usual home care services alone... - Effective/efficient mental health programs for school-age children: a synthesis of reviewsGina Browne
System Linked Research Unit SLRU, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont, Canada
Soc Sci Med 58:1367-84. 2004..Joint decision-making would require intersectoral governance, pooling of some funding, and policy changes to retain savings at the local level. Savings could finance expansion of services for additional youth... - The 2-year costs and effects of a public health nursing case management intervention on mood-disordered single parents on social assistanceMaureen Markle-Reid
System Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilization, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Room 3N46, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3Z5, Canada
J Eval Clin Pract 8:45-59. 2002..A total of 43% of these parents had a major depressive disorder and 38% had two or three other health conditions at baseline... - Nurse-led health promotion interventions improve quality of life in frail older home care clients: lessons learned from three randomized trials in Ontario, CanadaMaureen Markle-Reid
School of Nursing and Associate Member, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Eval Clin Pract 19:118-31. 2013..Each study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of different multi-component nurse-led health promotion and disease prevention (HPDP) interventions... - Conceptualization and measurement of integrated human service networks for evaluationGina Browne
McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Founder and Director, System Linked Research Unit on Health and Social Service Utilization Professor, School of Nursing, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Int J Integr Care 7:e51. 2007..The combination of concepts was derived from existing theoretical, policy, and measurement approaches in order to establish the content validity and comprehensiveness of the proposed measure... - Conceptualizations of frailty in relation to older adultsMaureen Markle-Reid
Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Adv Nurs 44:58-68. 2003..The aim of this article is to discuss the concept of frailty and its adequacy in identifying and describing older adults as frail... - Advanced practice nursing roles: development, implementation and evaluationDenise Bryant-Lukosius
School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Adv Nurs 48:519-29. 2004.... - Characteristics of people living with HIV who use community-based services in Ontario, Canada: implications for service providersPeter Williams
Ontario AIDS Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 16:50-63. 2005..In an effort to strengthen CBAO capacity to recognize and address depression and physical health problems prevalent among their clients, links to other mainstream health promotion and social services is recommended... - Can we afford consumers choice in home care?Carol L McWilliam
Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Care Manag J 8:171-8. 2007..While further investigation is needed, offering clients choice of involvement in their in-home case management may both lower costs and optimize clients' potential for involvement in their care... - The prevalence, correlates, and costs of depression in people living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario: implications for service directionsPeter Williams
Ontario AIDS Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
AIDS Educ Prev 17:119-30. 2005..Findings suggest quality-of-life of PHAs may be improved by expanding the capacity of ASO workers to recognize and address depression, including helping depressed PHA access appropriate medication and sustain medication regimes... - Changes in children's behavior and costs for service use associated with parents' response to treatment for dysthymiaCarolyn Byrne
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oshawa, ON, Canada
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:239-46. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Reductions in parental symptoms of dysthymia may be associated with reductions in childhood behavioral problems and in expenditures for the child's use of services... - Flexible client-driven in-home case management: an option to considerCarol L McWilliam
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Care Manag J 5:73-86. 2004..Alternative case management models do attract different client groups, and having a choice does not alter care costs or outcomes. Flexible client-driven case management may be experienced positively by case managers and other providers... - The effectiveness and efficiency of home-based nursing health promotion for older people: a review of the literatureMaureen Markle-Reid
McMaster University and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health Research Personnel Development Fund
Med Care Res Rev 63:531-69. 2006..Findings also indicate the need for a theoretical foundation, increased emphasis on health-promotion strategies, and more research using a more complete economic evaluation to establish efficiency...