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Perinatal nursing education for single-room maternity care: an evaluation of a competency-based modelPatricia A Janssen
Department of Family Practice and Health Care, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
J Clin Nurs 14:95-101. 2005..To evaluate the success of a competency-based nursing orientation programme for a single-room maternity care unit by measuring improvement in self-reported competency after six months...
Maternal and foetal outcomes among pregnant women hospitalised due to interpersonal violence: a population based study in Western Australia, 2002-2008Lynn B Meuleners
Curtin Monash Accident Research Centre C MARC, School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 11:70. 2011....- Experiences of violence before and during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes: an analysis of the Canadian Maternity Experiences SurveyMarcelo L Urquia
Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St Michael s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 11:42. 2011..Our objective was to investigate what dimensions of violence against pregnant women were associated with preterm birth, small for gestational age and postpartum depression in a nationally representative sample of Canadian women... - Acupuncture for substance abuse treatment in the Downtown Eastside of VancouverPatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V62 1Y6
J Urban Health 82:285-95. 2005..05. Acupuncture offered in the context of a community-based harm reduction model holds promise as an adjunct therapy for reduction of substance use... - Satisfaction with planned place of birth among midwifery clients in British ColumbiaPatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia
J Midwifery Womens Health 51:91-7. 2006.... - Differences in institutional cesarean delivery rates-the role of pain managementP A Janssen
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Canada
J Fam Pract 50:217-23. 2001..The objective of our study was to compare cesarean delivery rates for low-risk nulliparous women in a community hospital and a tertiary-level maternity hospital and to determine factors influencing those rates... - Early labor assessment and support at home versus telephone triage: a randomized controlled trialPatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, and School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, and Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Obstet Gynecol 108:1463-9. 2006..To compare rates of cesarean delivery among women who were triaged by obstetric nurses, either by telephone or by means of home visits... - Development and evaluation of a Chinese-language newborn feeding hotline: a prospective cohort studyPatricia A Janssen
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 9:3. 2009..The goal of this study was to develop an intervention targeting Chinese immigrant mothers to increase their rates of exclusive breastfeeding... - Peer support using a mobile access van promotes safety and harm reduction strategies among sex trade workers in Vancouver's Downtown EastsidePatricia A Janssen
UBC School of Population and Public Health, 5804 Fairview Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Urban Health 86:804-9. 2009..The peer-led Mobile Access Project has emerged as a viable harm reduction strategy for serving the immediate health and trauma-related needs of women engaged in street-level sex work... - Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physicianPatricia A Janssen
School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
CMAJ 181:377-83. 2009..We compared the outcomes of planned home births attended by midwives with those of planned hospital births attended by midwives or physicians... - To dye or not to dye: a randomized, clinical trial of a triple dye/alcohol regime versus dry cord carePatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pediatrics 111:15-20. 2003..The objective of this study was to compare cord bacterial colonization and morbidity among newborns whose cords were treated with triple dye and alcohol versus dry cord care... - Intimate partner violence and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a population-based studyPatricia A Janssen
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 188:1341-7. 2003..The purpose of this study was to measure the prevalence of exposure to intimate partner violence during pregnancy and to determine whether such exposure is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes... - Outcomes of planned home births versus planned hospital births after regulation of midwifery in British ColumbiaPatricia A Janssen
Centre for Community Health and Health Evaluation Research, BC Research Institute for Children s and Women s Health, Vancouver
CMAJ 166:315-23. 2002..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of home birth by comparing perinatal outcomes for planned home births attended by regulated midwives with those for planned hospital births... - Introducing domestic violence assessment in a postpartum clinical settingPatricia A Janssen
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Matern Child Health J 6:195-203. 2002..We assessed the utility of Rogers' model of institutional change for the implementation of a universal screening program for domestic violence in postpartum clinical settings... - Rooming-in compared with standard care for newborns of mothers using methadone or heroinRonald R Abrahams
UBC Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, 5804 Fairview Ave, Vancouver, BC
Can Fam Physician 53:1722-30. 2007.... - Early labour assessment and support at home: a randomized controlled trialPatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology and School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Obstet Gynaecol Can 25:734-41. 2003..Early labour care at home by hospital-based obstetrical nurses is safe and acceptable to women, and may offer advantages in terms of reduced interventions and more vigorous neonates... - Development and psychometric testing of The Care in Obstetrics: Measure for Testing Satisfaction (COMFORTS) scalePatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
Res Nurs Health 29:51-60. 2006..Pending further validation, the COMFORTS scale has potential to measure women's satisfaction with childbirth care and contribute to an assessment of the quality of care provided... - Results of a 10 week community based strength and balance training programme to reduce fall risk factors: a randomised controlled trial in 65-75 year old women with osteoporosisN D Carter
BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre Osteoporosis Program and Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Br J Sports Med 35:348-51. 2001..However, trends toward improvement in key independent risk factors for falling suggest that a study with greater power may show that these variables can be improved to a level that reaches statistical significance... - Childbearing intentions of HIV-positive women of reproductive age in Soweto, South Africa: the influence of expanding access to HAART in an HIV hyperendemic settingAngela Kaida
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS and the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Am J Public Health 101:350-8. 2011..We investigated whether the intention to have children varied according to HIV status and use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among women in Soweto, South Africa... 
Recent Pap tests among Canadian women: is depression a barrier to cervical cancer screening?Angela Kaida
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:1175-81. 2008..Given the increasing incidence of depression among Canadian women, this study sought to determine if recent Pap testing varies by the presence of depression...- Single room maternity care: perinatal outcomes, economic costs,and physician preferencesSusan J Harris
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
J Obstet Gynaecol Can 26:633-40. 2004..003). CONCLUSION: SRMC is a model of obstetric care for women at low risk for intrapartum complications, offering cost savings without affecting perinatal outcomes, and is well accepted by physicians... - Outcomes of planned hospital birth attended by midwives compared with physicians in British ColumbiaPatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Birth 34:140-7. 2007..We compared maternal and newborn outcomes between women planning hospital birth attended by a midwife versus a physician in British Columbia, Canada... - Rising incidence of hospital-reported drug-facilitated sexual assault in a large urban community in Canada. Retrospective population-based studyMargaret J McGregor
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Can J Public Health 95:441-5. 2004.... - Effects on parents of an intervention to resolve infant behavioral sleep problemsWendy A Hall
University of British Columbia School of Nursing, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pediatr Nurs 32:243-50. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: The study findings demonstrated that providing parents with information and support to assist with infant behavioral sleep problems can improve parental psychological well being... - Ethnic Chinese women's perceptions about condoms, withdrawal and rhythm methods of birth controlEllen R Wiebe
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, 1013 750 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1H9 Canada
Contraception 69:493-6. 2004..To gain a better understanding of ethnic Chinese women's perceptions and experiences of using barrier and rhythm methods of contraception in order to improve contraceptive counseling at abortion clinics... - Single room maternity care: the nursing responseP A Janssen
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Children's and Women's Health Care Centre of British Columbia, 5804 Fairview Ave, Vancouver, BC V6T-1Z3, Canada
Birth 28:173-9. 2001..Evaluation of the nurses' responses to changes in health care delivery has important implications for justifying new clinical approaches and planning for future changes... - Older women with age-related macular degeneration have a greater risk of falls: a physiological profile assessment studyShelagh M Szabo
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:800-7. 2008..To determine whether older women with exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are at greater risk of falls... - The experience of planned home birth: views of the first 500 womenPatricia A Janssen
School of Population and Public Health, 5804 Fairview Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
Birth 36:297-304. 2009..The voices of women have largely been ignored in this debate. The purpose of this study is to report on the experiences of 559 women who had a planned home birth over a 2-year period in British Columbia, Canada... - Effect of older maternal age on birth outcomes in twin pregnancies: a population-based studyS Lisonkova
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Children s and Women s Health Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Perinatol 31:85-91. 2011..Further, we examined whether older maternal age effects were modified by parity or otherwise affected by chorionicity... - Effects of an intervention aimed at reducing night waking and signaling in 6- to 12-month-old infantsW A Hall
School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Behav Sleep Med 4:242-61. 2006..Following the intervention, infants had significantly reduced length of night crying and number of wakes and longer night sleep periods. The intervention warrants evaluation with a randomized controlled design... - An evaluation of process and protocols for planned home birth attended by regulated midwives in British ColumbiaPatricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, 5804 Fairview Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
J Midwifery Womens Health 48:138-45. 2003..Integration of home birth has been a dynamic process with guidelines and policy continuing to evolve... - Neovascular AMD: an overlooked risk factor for injurious fallsS M Szabo
School of Population and Public Health and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Osteoporos Int 21:855-62. 2010..Compared with control participants, patients with NV-AMD had a significantly greater number of falls and almost twice the risk of injurious falls... - Regional variation in the cesarean delivery and assisted vaginal delivery ratesGillian E Hanley
University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Obstet Gynecol 115:1201-8. 2010.... - Motives for smoking cessation are associated with stage of readiness to quit smoking and sociodemographics among German industrial employeesBirgit Reime
NEXUS Social Contexts of Health Behaviour Research, University of British Columbia, 302 6190 Agronomy Road, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
Am J Health Promot 20:259-66. 2006..To test the relationships among particular motives for smoking cessation, stage of readiness to quit (preparation or contemplation), and sociodemographic characteristics... - Of mice and men: will the intersection of social science and genetics create new approaches for intimate partner violence?Patricia A Janssen
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia
J Interpers Violence 20:61-71. 2005..There is a need to push the boundaries of research on intimate partner violence by adopting biosocial approaches to understand its causes... - The effect of maternal age on adverse birth outcomes: does parity matter?Sarka Lisonkova
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
J Obstet Gynaecol Can 32:541-8. 2010..To examine the effect of parity on the association between older maternal age and adverse birth outcomes, specifically stillbirth, neonatal death, preterm birth, small for gestational age, and neonatal intensive care unit admission... - Survey of medicinal cannabis use among childbearing women: patterns of its use in pregnancy and retroactive self-assessment of its efficacy against 'morning sickness'Rachel E Westfall
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P5
Complement Ther Clin Pract 12:27-33. 2006..Our findings support the need for further investigations into cannabis therapy for severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy...