Art-Based Workshops for Women: An Opportunity for Reflection on Identity and Transformation following Cancer Treatment.

Individuals experiencing cancer often report feelings of abandonment by the healthcare system after medical treatment has ended. Specifically, women with cancer have expressed the need for support beyond traditional medical and rehabilitation periods, especially with the process of reconstructing the self in the context of enduring illness. Occupational therapists could play a critical role in providing opportunities for self-reflection and transformation through occupation for this population.

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Produce a French-Canadian translation of AMSTAR 2, affirm its content validity, and examine interrater reliability. Based on Vallerand's methodological approach, we conducted forward and parallel inverse-translations. Subsequently, an expert panel evaluated the translations to create a preliminary experimental French-Canadian version.

About me but without me? Older adult's perspectives on interpersonal communication during care transitions from hospital to seniors' residence.

Transitions in care can be stressful for an older adult. While communication protocols between health care professionals during transitions have been thoroughly studied, there is a need to better understand how older adults transitioning perceive interpersonal communication. Relying on Communication Accommodation Theory, the goal of this study is to explore Canadian older adults' perspectives of interpersonal communication during care transition from acute care in a hospital to a residence and assess if and how communication could improve health and well-being.

A scoping review of studies exploring leisure-time physical activity in adults diagnosed with advanced cancer.

Objectives: Despite improving survival rates, people with advanced cancer face several physical and psychosocial concerns. Leisure-time physical activity (LPA) has been found to be beneficial after cancer diagnosis, but little is known about the current state of research exploring LPA in advanced cancer. Our objectives were to (a) map the literature examining LPA in people with advanced cancer, (b) report on the terms used to describe the advanced cancer population within the literature, and (c) examine how the concept of LPA is operationalized within the literature.

Occupational patterns of families living with a health condition: A scoping review.

Background: A family's health is sustained by its occupational patterns. While it is commonly accepted that a health condition places extra demands on a family's time or can limit daily occupations, few studies have reported on the occupational patterns of these families.

Aims/objectives: This scoping review provides an overview of the current state of research exploring occupational patterns of families living with a health condition.

[Franco-Ontarian parenting couples living in the Ottawa region and their perceptions regarding the usefulness of prenatal classes].

In the last few years, there has been an important decrease in parents' interest and participation in prenatal classes in Canada and elsewhere in the world. Partial results were obtained on parenting couples' participation in and satisfaction with prenatal classes, from a larger study involving 103 francophone couples living in Ottawa, using'a mixed methods descriptive and longitudinal research design. This article aims to present the reasons why parents do not participate in prenatal classes and their suggestions to improve them.