Publications by authors named "Ingrid Waldron"
Article Synopsis
- There is increasing evidence that lifestyle changes can enhance brain health and lower the risk of dementia, but there's limited research on interventions for those already living with dementia.
- Current reviews mainly focus on exercise's effects on cognition, while the needs and priorities of people with dementia focus more on functional abilities and quality of life.
- This study aims to systematically review the effects of lifestyle interventions, such as physical activity and nutrition, on improving the quality of life and functional abilities of community-dwelling individuals with dementia, addressing various factors like program structure and participant characteristics.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of perceptions of mental illnesses (especially psychosis), help-seeking, barriers to help-seeking, and opportunities to facilitate help-seeking in the African Nova Scotian Community.
Methods: A qualitative interpretive narrative approach, using the focus group method, was employed to engage African Nova Scotians in discussions on their perceptions and beliefs about mental illnesses and help-seeking in their communities. Youth in Early Intervention services, their caregivers, youth in the community, their caregivers, community leaders, and health service providers, were recruited from four locations in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Background: Developing, supporting, and evaluating initiatives that foster equity, diversity, and a culture of inclusiveness (EDI) within nursing programs are important to effect change that will improve the impact, relevance, and effectiveness of how historically marginalized populations are represented by and within the nursing profession.
Method: The curriculum was identified as a key factor in effecting change within the school of nursing at a university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. An EDI Curriculum Project sought to evaluate course syllabi to identify areas where courses could align with EDI initiatives within the school and the university more broadly.
Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to identify and chart teaching strategies that educators use in classroom settings to engage diverse students in undergraduate nursing education programs.
Introduction: Student engagement is critical to facilitating academic success and significant learning experiences for undergraduate nursing students. However, students from diverse backgrounds face challenges in undergraduate nursing programs, and these challenges impact their academic engagement and sense of belonging and inclusion.
The social determinants of health (SDH) are recognized as a prominent influence on health outcomes across the lifespan. Racism is identified as a key SDH. In this article, the authors describe the concept of racism as an SDH, its impact in discriminatory actions and inactions, and the implications for cardiovascular nurses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProspective predictors of the onset of anorexic and bulimic syndromes.
Int J Eat Disord
November 2002
Objective: This study investigated prospective predictors of lifetime history diagnoses of partial- and full-syndrome anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (referred to as anorexic syndrome and bulimic syndrome.)
Method: Participants were 157 females who were studied initially in the 7th-10th grades (ages 12-16) and followed-up 2 and 8 years later in middle adolescence (ages 14-18) and young adulthood (ages 20-24), respectively. A telephone interview to determine lifetime history of anorexic and bulimic syndromes was conducted in young adulthood.