Journal Article

Movilidad ocupacional descendente de enfermeras graduadas, enfermeras internacionalmente preparadas a auxiliares de enfermería

July 1, 2018

Objetivo: Este estudio analizó la experiencia de las enfermeras formadas internacionalmente con un grado que trabajan como auxiliares de enfermería con licencia de práctica en Canadá. Antecedentes/Introducción: Las enfermeras formadas internacionalmente experimentan varias barreras para su integración en la fuerza laboral al llegar a los países de destino. Dadas estas barreras, la evidencia indican que…
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“A complex interface: Exploring sickle cell disease from a parent’s perspective, after moving from Sub-Saharan Africa to North America”

July 1, 2018

Introduction : Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited, multi-system, chronic disease with the highest prevalence affecting people of Sub-Saharan African descent. While major advances in SCD care have occurred over the last few decades in many African countries these advances are not readily available. Prior literature from Ghana and Kenya describe stigma, despair, and…
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‘I feel something is still missing’: leisure meanings of African refugee women in Canada

July 1, 2018

This research explored the leisure meanings of three African women, former refugees resettled in Canada. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, this study revealed that leisure meanings were tightly bound in the women’s Christian faith, church, and faith community in affording them solace, socialisation, and community bonding. Furthermore, learning for leisure emphasised leisure for educational advancement,…
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Minding the gap: health and social care provider perceptions of parental communication and Black-Canadian youths’ sexual health.

July 1, 2018

Health and social care providers’ perceptions of Black-Canadian parent-youth sexual health communication has important implications for addressing knowledge gaps in the provision of services to young people and their parents. Providers’ perceptions are crucial as they often act as advisers in tailoring programmes or services to the perceived needs of parents and youth. To understand…
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Vitamin D Intake and Status of Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Montreal, Canada.

July 1, 2018

Sickle cell disease (SCD) and vitamin D deficiency share manifestations such as bone complications and bony pains. Canadian SCD children are characterized by compromised sun exposure all year long and potential dietary deficiency, which combined to SCD-causing high nutritional demands, may lead to impaired vitamin D status. The objectives of this study were to document…
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Perceived Neighborhood Quality and HIV-related Stigma amongAfrican Diasporic Youth; Results from the African, Caribbean, and Black Youth (ACBY) Study

July 1, 2018

Socio-environmental factors such as neighborhood quality are increasingly recognized drivers of HIV disparities. Additionally, HIV- related stigma heightens HIV vulnerability among youth in the African Diaspora. However, little research examines the intersection of neighborhood quality and HIV- related stigma. This study uses survey data (N=495) from African, Caribbean, and Black youth in a midsized city…
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Substance use preferences and sexually transmitted infections among Canadian post-secondary students

July 1, 2018

Background: In Canada, substance use is one of the key predisposing factors that may lead to risky sexual behaviors among post-secondary students. There is considerable economic burden and significant public health concern posed by substance use and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of substance use preferences…
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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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Community Safety, Housing Precariousness and Processes of Exclusion: An Institutional Ethnography from the Standpoints of Youth in an ‘Unsafe’ Urban Neighbourhood

July 1, 2018

Using the alternative sociological approach, institutional ethnography, this article reveals how experiences growing up in social housing (re)produce conditions of oppression that exacerbate housing precariousness and other forms of exclusion. Data were generated through participant observation, textual analysis and in-depth qualitative interviews with Young People of Colour living in vulnerable urban neighbourhoods, designated as Neighbourhood…
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Ethnoracial differences in cannabis use among native-born and foreign-born high school students in Ontario

July 1, 2018

The objective of this study was to examine the association of ethnoracial background and immigrant status to cannabis use among students in Ontario, Canada. Data were derived from the Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey, a school-based, province-wide survey of students in Grades 7–12. The survey utilized a stratified two-stage cluster design. Analyses were…
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