Challenges and Adaptations for Providing Smoking Cessation for Patients with Cancer across Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Smoking cessation after a cancer diagnosis can improve health outcomes, but the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic significantly altered healthcare patterns and strained resources, including for smoking cessation support for cancer patients. A Network that included all 13 provinces and territories (jurisdictions) in Canada received funding and coordinated support from a national organization to implement access to smoking cessation support in cancer care between 2016 and 2021, including throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive analyses of meetings between the organization and jurisdictions between March of 2020 and August of 2021 demonstrated that all jurisdictions reported disruptions of existing smoking cessation approaches.

Improving safety culture in hospitals: Facilitators and barriers to implementation of Systemic Falls Investigative Method (SFIM).

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the facilitators and barriers to implementation of the Systemic Falls Investigative Method (SFIM) on selected hospital units.

Design: A cross-sectional explanatory mixed methods design was used to converge results from a standardized safety culture survey with themes that emerged from interviews and focus groups. Findings were organized by six elements of the Ottawa Model of Research Use framework.

Supporting the diffusion of healthy public policy in Canada: the Prevention Policies Directory.

Healthy public policy plays an essential role in a comprehensive public health approach to preventing cancer and chronic disease. Public policies spread through the 'policy diffusion' process, enabling governments to learn from another's enacted policy solutions. The Prevention Policies Directory (the Directory), an online database of municipal, provincial/territorial, and federal cancer and chronic disease prevention policies from across Canada, was developed to facilitate the diffusion of healthy public policies and support the work of prevention researchers, practitioners, and policy specialists.

Understanding safety culture in long-term care: a case study.

Objectives: This case study aimed to understand safety culture in a high-risk secured unit for cognitively impaired residents in a long-term care (LTC) facility. Specific objectives included the following: diagnosing the present level of safety culture maturity using the Patient Safety Culture Improvement Tool (PSCIT), examining the barriers to a positive safety culture, and identifying actions for improvement.

Methods: A mixed methods design was used within a secured unit for cognitively impaired residents in a Canadian nonprofit LTC facility.

Safety culture in healthcare: a review of concepts, dimensions, measures and progress.

Background: A growing body of peer-reviewed studies demonstrate the importance of safety culture in healthcare safety improvement, but little attention has focused on developing a common set of definitions, dimensions and measures.

Objectives: Specific objectives of this literature review include: summarising definitions of safety culture and safety climate, identifying theories, dimensions and measures of safety culture in healthcare, and reviewing progress in improving safety culture.

Methods: Peer-reviewed, English-language articles published from 1980 to 2009 pertaining to safety culture in healthcare were reviewed.

Happy and healthy only if occupied? Perceptions of health sciences students on occupation in later life.

Background/aim:   In this study, we bring attention to the university education of health science students with respect to occupation in later life. Our goal was to provide descriptive data from narratives of a group of undergraduate students and initiate discussion about the place of occupation in the context of ageing to answer the following questions: (i) How young people perceive successful ageing in relation to occupation? and (ii) can spirituality-related activities be considered occupations in later life?

Methods: Based on a thematic selection, the quality of photographs and reflective narratives, 60 Photovoice assignments created by health sciences students were analysed using content analysis.

Results: The findings of this study indicate that students seem to neglect the benefits of 'being' through spiritual engagement, and instead emphasise the importance of 'doing', and perpetuate pervasive successful ageing discourses in Western societies.

The assessment of pain: an audit of physiotherapy practice.

This study concerned the adoption of scientific method by the physiotherapy profession, with pain measurement as the research focus. It involved an audit of 1010 patient records from four hospital physiotherapy departments in England, to determine how pain was assessed and recorded. The results show that while pain assessment was recorded in most of the cases audited, there was no record of reassessment in 29 per cent of cases.