Clinical research coordinators' role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study.

Background: Clinical research coordinators (CRCs) facilitate the interaction between researchers and knowledge users in rehabilitation centres to promote and sustain evidence-informed practices. Despite their presence in rehabilitation settings in Quebec for over 20 years, little is known about their profiles and knowledge translation (KT) activities nor how they can best enact their role. This study explored CRCs' roles and perspectives on the barriers, enablers, and strategies for improving KT activities in rehabilitation settings.

Urban sprawl in Canada: Values in all 33 Census Metropolitan Areas and corresponding 469 Census Subdivisions between 1991 and 2011.

The dataset presented here provides the degree of urban sprawl across 33 Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) in Canada of 2011 together with the 469 Census Subdivisions (CSDs) located within the 2011 boundaries of the CMAs, for the years 1991, 2001, and 2011. The dataset contains the values of weighted urban proliferation () and weighted sprawl per capita () and their components. The landscape-oriented value of indicates how strongly the landscape within the boundaries of a reporting unit is sprawled per square meter, while is inhabitant-oriented and reveals how much on average an inhabitant or workplace is contributing to urban sprawl in the reporting unit.

Interventions Addressing Vision, Visual-perceptual Impairments Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Cross-sectional Survey.

Background.: The existing literature on the effectiveness of interventions targeting vision, visual-perceptual impairments following acquired brain injury (ABI) is scarce and unlinked to occupational performance.

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Rehabilitation strategies enhancing participation in shopping malls for persons living with a disability.

Purpose: After rehabilitation, it is not clear the extent to which persons living with a disability return to their former activities in the community, such as going to shopping malls. Rehabilitation professionals are faced with the challenge to adequately prepare their clients to resume community participation. The purpose of this study was to identify rehabilitation strategies aimed at preparing clients to engage in activities in shopping malls.

Accompanying citizen of persons with traumatic brain injury in a community integration project: An exploration of the role.

Background: The APIC (Citizen Accompaniment Project for Community Integration) is an innovative program that seeks to increase the community integration of people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) by offering the support of an accompanying citizen (AC) in the accomplishment of significant life activities.

Objective: This article aims to better define the AC's role in this process, by underlining the mental health risks they face, the strategies they use, and the impacts the role has on their own lives.

Methods: This qualitative study is based on the analysis of interviews conducted with the AC following the first year of implementation.

Rehabilitation living lab in the mall community of practice: learning together to improve rehabilitation, participation and social inclusion for people living with disabilities.

Communities of practice (CoP) can facilitate collaboration between people who share a common interest, but do not usually work together. A CoP was initiated and developed including stakeholders from clinical, research, community and governmental backgrounds involved in a large multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial project: the Rehabilitation Living Lab in a Mall (RehabMaLL). This study aimed to evaluate the structure, process and outcomes of this CoP.

Neurogenic bowel after spinal cord injury from the perspective of support providers: a phenomenological study.

Objective: To gain greater insight into the experience of support providers who assist and support individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) for the performance of bowel care.

Design: Qualitative (phenomenological) interviews and analysis.

Setting: Community.

Phenomenological study of neurogenic bowel from the perspective of individuals living with spinal cord injury.

Objective: To gain greater insight into the lived experience of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD).

Design: Qualitative (phenomenologic) interviews and analysis.

Setting: Community.

[Citizen accompaniment for community integration : a challenge for mental health ?].

APIC (Citizen Accompaniment Project for Community Integration) offers support for the social integration of people living with traumatic brain injury. The accompanying citizen meets the person three hours a week for a period of a year in order to offer assistance in the accomplishment of his/her projects and activities. This role confronts the accompanying citizen with many challenges that may put their mental health at risk.

Aging and the detection of imminent collisions under simulated fog conditions.

The present study examined age-related differences in collision detection performance when contrast of the driving scene was reduced by simulated fog. Older and younger drivers were presented with a collision detection scenario in a simulator in which an object moved at a constant speed on a linear trajectory towards the driver. Drivers were shown part of the motion path of an approaching object that would eventually either collide with or pass by the driver and were required to determine whether or not the object would collide with the driver.

Aging and detection of collision events on curved trajectories.

In the current study we examined age-related differences in the detection of collision events on a curved trajectory. Observers were presented with displays simulating an approaching object moving at a constant speed that was either on a collision or a non-collision path. The object disappeared before reaching the observer, and the task was to determine whether the object was on a collision path.

The relationship between 11 health risks and medical and productivity costs for a large employer.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between modifiable health risks, and health and productivity related expenditures and predict cost savings from improvements in the health risk profile of a large US employer.

Methods: Information was collected on 11 modifiable health risks for active employees who completed a health assessment and enrolled in a noncapitated health plan. These risks were related to employer medical care costs and employee productivity.

Positive mood effects on delay discounting.

Delay discounting is the process by which the value of an expected reward decreases as the delay to obtaining that reward increases. Individuals with higher discounting rates tend to prefer smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards. Previous research has indicated that personality can influence an individual's discounting rates, with higher levels of Extraversion predicting a preference for immediate gratification.

[Pericarditis: a giant cell arteritis manifestation].

Introduction: Temporal arteritis is a vasculitis in which inflammatory manifestations mainly involve the external carotid artery area but not exclusively. Through a clinical observation and a review of the literature, we suggest that inflammatory pericarditis could represent a manifestation of temporal arteritis.

Exegesis: A 75-year-old-woman was admitted for progressive physical deterioration which had been evolving for three months, associated with fever, frontotemporal cephalalgia and severe biological inflammatory syndrome.

Health and productivity management: establishing key performance measures, benchmarks, and best practices.

Major areas considered under the rubric of health and productivity management (HPM) in American business include absenteeism, employee turnover, and the use of medical, disability, and workers' compensation programs. Until recently, few normative data existed for most HPM areas. To meet the need for normative information in HPM, a series of Consortium Benchmarking Studies were conducted.