Publications by authors named "V T Vaillancourt"

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare and social services professionals have had to provide services through virtual care. In the workplace, such professionals often need to be sufficiently resourced to collaborate and address collaborative care barriers in telehealth. We performed a scoping review to identify the competencies required to support interprofessional collaboration among clinicians in telehealth.

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Introduction: Train-the-trainer (TTT) programs are frequently used to facilitate knowledge dissemination. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these programs. Therefore, we sought to assess the impact of TTT programs on learning and behavior of trainers for educating health and social professionals (trainees).

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Objective: This study explored the effects of hearing protection devices (HPDs) and head protection on the ability of normal-hearing individuals to localize reverse alarms in background noise.

Background: Among factors potentially contributing to accidents involving heavy vehicles, reverse alarms can be difficult to localize in space, leading to errors in identifying the source of danger. Previous studies have shown that traditional tonal alarms are more difficult to localize than broadband alarms.

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Article Synopsis
  • Patients with complex care needs often struggle with health management and decision-making, necessitating more research on their specific decisional requirements.
  • A qualitative study in Quebec involved interviews and focus groups with patients and healthcare providers to explore these needs through the Ottawa decision support framework.
  • The outcomes revealed 26 unique decisional needs, focused on themes like emergency visits and treatment adherence, highlighting issues like patient distrust and conflicting views among health professionals.
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The main purpose of this article is to produce a French-Canadian translation of the Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative studies (COREQ) scale under the proposed name "échelle COREQ" and to assess the transcultural validity of its content. The secondary purpose is to examine the inter-rater reliability of the French-Canadian version of the COREQ scale. A modified approach to Vallerand's methodology (1989) for cross-cultural validation was used.

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