Publications by authors named "D Schopflocher"
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- The Alberta Biomonitoring Program (ABP), established in 2005, aims to track and evaluate baseline exposure levels to environmental chemicals in Alberta, starting with pregnant women and children in its early phases.
- Over its first three phases, the program tested 226 chemicals through 285 pooled serum samples from around 31,529 individuals, assessing various toxic substances like pesticides, metals, and tobacco biomarkers.
- The most recent phase (Phase Four, 2017-2020) shifts focus to the effects of legalized cannabis on pregnant women, while continuing to monitor alcohol and tobacco exposure using prenatal screening serum samples.
Purpose: This paper evaluates the long-term impact of a Canadian mass media campaign on general public beliefs about staying active when experiencing low back pain (LBP).
Methods: Changes in beliefs about staying active during an episode of LBP were studied using telephone and web-based surveys. Logistic regression analysis was used to investigate changes in beliefs over time and the effect of exposure to campaign messaging.
Aims: To derive low-risk gambling limits using the method developed by Currie et al. (2006) applied to longitudinal data.
Design: Secondary analysis of data from the Quinte Longitudinal Study (n = 3054) and Leisure, Lifestyle and Lifecycle Project (n = 809), two independently conducted cohort studies of the natural progression of gambling in Canadian adults.
Background: We describe the epidemiology of pertussis in Alberta, Canada by person, place, and time between 2004 and 2015, identify outbreak years, and examine vaccination coverage and vaccination timeliness.
Methods: We used health data from Alberta's Communicable Disease Registry System for the period of January 1, 2004 through August 31, 2015 to identify unique cases of pertussis. Unique cases were deterministically linked to data in Alberta's immunization repository and health care insurance plan registry.
The objective of the current study was to examine the possible temporal associations between alcohol misuse and problem gambling symptomatology from adolescence through to young adulthood. Parallel-process latent growth curve modeling was used to examine the trajectories of alcohol misuse and symptoms of problem gambling over time. Data were from a sample of adolescents recruited for the Leisure, Lifestyle, and Lifecycle Project in Alberta, Canada (n = 436), which included 4 assessments over 5 years.
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