Publications by authors named "Sarah Liva"

Article Synopsis
  • A study was conducted to explore sex-specific risk factors (SS-RFs) for cardiovascular disease (CVD) that often go unnoticed in premenopausal Canadian women aged 19-49.
  • Out of 2559 survey respondents, 82% were considered low medical risk, but 35% of them had at least one SS-RF, and many high-risk participants underestimated their CVD risk.
  • The research revealed that while knowledge of traditional CVD risks was fairly high, awareness of SS-RFs was low, with a significant number of women engaging in insufficient health-promoting behaviors.
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Background: Substantial literature has highlighted the importance of patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs, respectively) to collect clinically relevant information to better understand and address what matters to patients. The purpose of this systematic review is to synthesize the evidence about how healthcare providers implement individual-level PROMs and PREMs data into daily practice.

Methods: This mixed methods systematic review protocol describes the design of our synthesis of the peer-reviewed research evidence (i.

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Background: Challenges with engaging in postnatal physical activity can negatively affect the health of women and their families. This study investigated women's physical activity decision-making processes and strategies to support their physical activity as part of a healthy postpartum transition.

Methods: Thirty healthy women with infants aged 2.

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Despite numerous studies on formal interprofessional education programes, less attention has been focused on informal interprofessional learning opportunities. To provide such an opportunity, a collaborative peer review process (CPRP) was created as part of a peer-reviewed journal. Replacing the traditional peer review process wherein two or more reviewers review the manuscript separately, the CPRP brings together students from different professions to collaboratively review a manuscript.

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Detecting the effectiveness of behavioral interventions to reduce infant night-waking requires valid sleep measures. Although viewed as an objective measure, actigraphy has overestimated night-waking. Sleep diaries are criticized for only documenting night-waking with infant crying.

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Objective: To test whether demographic characteristics predict registered nurses' attitudes toward birth practices.

Design: A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional survey, the National Maternity Care Attitudes Survey.

Setting: A national survey conducted with health care providers providing maternity care in Canada.

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