Navigating Awareness and Strategies to Support Dementia Advocacy on Social Media During World Alzheimer's Month: Infodemiology Study.

Background: Understanding advocacy strategies is essential to improving dementia awareness, reducing stigma, supporting cognitive health promotion, and influencing policy to support people living with dementia. However, there is a dearth of evidence-based research on advocacy strategies used to support dementia awareness.

Objective: This study aimed to use posts from X (formerly known as Twitter) to understand dementia advocacy strategies during World Alzheimer's Awareness Month in September 2022.

Perspective: leveraging review protocols to advance implementation science in support of older adults' health equity.

Globally, there has been an increasing call for dissemination and implementation science to improve the health equity of older adults. However, improving the health equity of older adults requires methods that allow for an in-depth understanding of the existing research. While the value of review articles is widely recognized, the value of publishing review protocols is an emerging paradigm with great potential to advance implementation science and aging research.

Stigma-related barriers to medical cannabis as harm reduction for substance use disorder: Obstacles and opportunities for improvement.

Emerging evidence on substituting cannabis for more harmful drugs has led to cannabis becoming a novel harm-reduction strategy for combating the current drug poisoning crisis. However, the authorization of medical cannabis as part of a harm-reduction approach and recovery strategy has significant implementation barriers rooted in longstanding stigma towards cannabis. Through a multi-discipline collaboration of Canadian clinicians and academic researchers, we highlighted stigma barriers and opportunities to address these barriers to elicit improved delivery of medical cannabis as a harm-reduction therapy within existing therapeutic frameworks.

Cannabidiol as a Harm Reduction Strategy for People Who Use Drugs: A Rapid Review.

Objective: The drug poisoning crisis throughout North America necessitates novel harm reduction approaches. Emerging evidence suggests that cannabidiol (CBD) may have some utility as a harm reduction modality for those with problematic substance use. This rapid review aimed to synthesize available evidence on CBD as a potential harm reduction tool for people who use drugs while providing clinical and research insights.

Impact of Cognitive Rehearsal Training Over Time for New Registered Nurses.

Background New RNs are most at risk for being bullied in health care. Cognitive rehearsal training (CRT) as an anti-bullying intervention is a novel approach to address the issue using role-play to respond to scenarios involving bullying. Previous studies (Griffin, 2004; O'Connell et al.