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Among sheeples and antivaxxers: Social media responses to COVID-19 vaccine news posted by Canadian news organizations, and recommendations to counter vaccine hesitancy

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021
Background: To create a successful public health initiative that counters vaccine hesitancy and promotes vaccine acceptance, it is essential to gain a strong understanding of the beliefs, attitudes and subjective risk perceptions of the population ...
Lisa Tang, Sabrina Douglas, Amar Laila
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“You’re a Mature Student and You’re a Tiny, Tiny Little Fish in a Big Massive Pond of Students”: A Thematic Analysis Investigating the Institutional Support Needs of Partnered Mature Students in Postsecondary Study

Education Sciences, 2023
Mature students in postsecondary education—those over 25 years of age, also known as nontraditional students or adult learners—make up a significant minority population on Canadian postsecondary campuses.
Tricia van Rhijn, Caitlyn Osborne, Deborah Gores, Amiah Keresturi, Ruth Neustifter, Amy Muise, Victoria Fritz   +6 more
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Exploring the environmental determinants of food choice among Haudenosaunee female youth

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Research on Indigenous food literacy within Canada has been focused on northern and remote communities despite the fact there are considerable and unique barriers to food access, availability, and utilization in southern Indigenous communities.
Rebecca Hanemaayer, Hannah Tait Neufeld, Kim Anderson, Jess Haines, Kelly Gordon, Kitty R. Lynn Lickers, Adrianne Xavier, Laura Peach, Mwalu Peeters   +8 more
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Key process features of personalized diet counselling in metabolic syndrome: secondary analysis of feasibility study in primary care

BMC Nutrition, 2022
Background Personalized diet counselling, as part of lifestyle change programs for cardiometabolic risk conditions (combinations of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and high waist circumference) has been shown to reduce ...
Paula Brauer, Dawna Royall, Airu Li, Ariellia Rodrigues, Jennifer Green, Sharon Macklin, Alison Craig, Miranda Chan, Jennifer Pasanen, Lucie Brunelle, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Doug Klein, Angelo Tremblay, Caroline Rheaume, David M. Mutch, Khursheed Jeejeebhoy   +15 more
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Registered dietitians’ beliefs and behaviours related to counselling patients on physical activity and sedentary behaviour from a theory of planned behaviour perspective

BMC Nutrition, 2020
Background Registered dietitians working in team-based primary care settings (e.g., family health teams [FHTs]) are positioned to counsel on physical activity and sedentary behaviour when providing nutrition-related services to promote health and prevent
Jessica Huntington, John J. M. Dwyer, Sara Shama, Paula Brauer   +3 more
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Comparing the perceptions and opinions of the 2007 and 2019 Canada's food guides among parents of young children

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundThe Canada's Food Guide (CFG) is recognized as the most prominent authoritative guideline for healthy eating in Canada. In 2019, Health Canada released the latest iteration of the CFG with substantial changes to its messaging and format from ...
Alyssa V. Ramuscak, David W. L. Ma, Laura E. Forbes, Alison M. Duncan, Adam Sadowski, Jess Haines   +5 more
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#Fitmom: an experimental investigation of the effect of social media on body dissatisfaction and eating and physical activity intentions, attitudes, and behaviours among postpartum mothers

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Research has shown that body dissatisfaction is higher during the postpartum period compared to other periods of life, and strongly associated with disordered eating behaviours, which can lead to adverse health outcomes.
Lisa Tang, Marika Tiggemann, Jess Haines
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What does One Health want? Feminist, posthuman, and anti-colonial possibilities

One Health Outlook, 2023
What does One Health want? Despite its touted interdisciplinarity, to date there has been limited engagement with the social sciences and humanities – in particular with streams of critical social theory that enable a response to this question.
Lauren E. Van Patter, Julia Linares-Roake, Andrea V. Breen   +2 more
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Time to re-think picky eating?: a relational approach to understanding picky eating

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2017
Background Estimates of picky eating are quite high among young children, with 14-50% of parents identifying their preschoolers as picky eaters. Dietary intake and preferences during the preschool years are characterized by slowing growth rates and ...
Kathryn Walton, Leon Kuczynski, Emma Haycraft, Andrea Breen, Jess Haines   +4 more
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Understanding the Use of Dietary Supplements among Athlete and Non-Athlete University Students: Development and Validation of a Questionnaire

Sports, 2019
Background: The purpose of this study is to develop and test the validity and reliability of a questionnaire to evaluate dietary supplement use based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB).
Dalia El Khoury, John J.M. Dwyer, Lindsay Fein, Paula Brauer, Sydney Brennan, Irene Alfaro   +5 more
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