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Immigrant Mothers’ Perspectives of Barriers and Facilitators in Accessing Mental Health Care for Their Children

February 4, 2020

Introduction: Data on immigrant and refugees’ access to services in Canada typically focus on adult populations generally but not children specifically. To fill this gap, this study explored immigrant and refugee mothers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators for mental health care for their children in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Method: In this qualitative descriptive study, researchers…
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“We Are Like Any Other People, but We Don’t Cry Much Because Nobody Listens”: The Need to Strengthen Aging Policies and Service Provision for Minorities in Canada

January 16, 2020

Background and Objectives: This study explores the aging experiences and needs of immigrant Muslim communities in an urban center in Alberta, Canada. Over one million Muslims live in Canada, with the majority being immigrants and visible minorities. Aging-focused policies and services have yet to address the needs of this population as larger cohorts begin to…
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Parenting challenges of African immigrants in Alberta, Canada

January 2, 2020

African immigrant children and youth have some of the poorest social and mental health outcomes in Canada. Although parenting challenges have been widely documented as a key driver of these outcomes, limited systematic research has investigated this phenomenon. In this paper, we report the results of a study examining parenting challenges among a sample of…
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Discours de jeunes issus de groupes minoritaires sur les inégalités scolaires au Québec The Discourse of Minority Youth on School Inequalities in Québec

July 1, 2019

Au Canada, malgré la massification de l’enseignement supérieur, des inégalités de persévérance persistent. Au Québec, des recherches ont permis d’identifier les régions de provenance des jeunes pour lesquels le taux de décrochage au secondaire et au postsecondaire est plus élevé, entre autres les Caraïbes et l’Amérique centrale et du Sud. Dans cette étude qualitative, une…
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The PrEP you want: A web-based survey of online cross-border shopping for HIV prophylaxis medications

July 1, 2019

Background: In response to the high cost of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications in Canada, community organizations have created internet-based guides detailing how to legally order generic medications online and travel to collect them in the United States. However, little is known about the patients following these guides. Objective: Our primary objective was to measure…
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The role of ethnicity in involuntary psychiatric admission in Toronto, Canada in clients presenting with psychosis

May 14, 2019

In the UK, clients from black and minority ethnic groups experience higher rates of involuntary admission. In Canada, despite increasing immigration and diversity, this issue has not been a research focus. This retrospective study examined whether odds of admission, specifically involuntary admission, in a sample of 765 clients presenting with psychosis from six different ethnic…
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Access and utilization of mental health services for immigrants and refugees: Perspectives of immigrant service providers

July 9, 2018

Immigrant and refugee populations experience life stressors due to difficult migration journeys and challenges in leaving one country and adapting to another. These life stressors result in adverse mental health outcomes when coupled with a lack of adequate support-enhancing resources. One area of support is access to and use of mental health services to prevent…
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Dietary acculturation among black immigrant families living in Ottawa—a qualitative study

July 1, 2018

The study explores the dietary acculturation process among first-generation immigrant families from sub-Saharan Africa or the Caribbean living in Ottawa (Canada). In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 mothers. The interaction between accelerating factors and other mediating factors resulted in a spiral of dietary changes triggered by immigration. The spiral evolved at different paces from…
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‘And when a certain health issue happen, they try to cover it’: Stakeholder perspectives on the health of temporary foreign workers and their families

July 1, 2018

This study examines stakeholders’ perspectives on the health and well-being of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) and their families in Alberta, Canada. We used a critically informed qualitative methodology. We interviewed 13 stakeholders, including service providers and policy makers. Stakeholders involved in providing services to TFWs perceived that the workers experience (1) barriers in accessing mental…
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Obstetric fistula policy in Nigeria: a critical discourse analysis

June 27, 2018

Background: In 2012, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health published its National Strategic Framework for the Elimination of Obstetric Fistula (NSFEOF), 2011–2015. The framework has since lapsed and there is no tangible evidence that the goal of eliminating obstetric fistula was met. To further inform future policy directions on obstetric fistula in Nigeria, this paper explores…
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