Catherine Lindsay Goldie

Queen's University | QueensU · School of Nursing

Objective: Despite a brief decline during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaping behaviors among adolescents continue to be an international public health concern because of associated health risks and harms. A thorough investigation of existing interventions preventing adolescent vaping is needed to help address this public health crisis and reduce seriou...

Objective: The objective of the review is to systematically examine the emerging literature related to public health interventions aimed at preventing adolescent vaping. Introduction: The prevalence of vaping behaviors among adolescents is a rising concern worldwide. A thorough investigation of existing public health interventions to prevent vap...

Background: Palliative care is for people suffering from life-limiting illnesses that focuses on providing relief from symptoms and stress of illness. Previous studies have demonstrated that specialist palliative care consultation delivered earlier in the disease process can enhance patients’ quality of life, reduce their symptom burden, reduce use...

Introduction Population-based datasets are often used to estimate changes in utilization or outcomes of novel therapies. Inclusion or exclusion of unstaged patients may impact on interpretation of these studies. Methods A large population-based dataset in Ontario, Canada of non-small cell lung cancer patients was examined to evaluate the character...

Background: Women with inherited bleeding disorders (IBDs) are at an increased risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). However, the impact of other maternal predelivery risk factors, including anemia, on the association between IBD and maternal bleeding remains poorly understood. Additionally, studies examining potential pathways linking IBD and PPH...

Background This study evaluated the perceived usability, engagement, learning, benefits and challenges as well as academic achievement of using a mobile classroom response system (CRS) in the classroom and clinical simulation lab with undergraduate nursing students. Method A descriptive mixed-methods study was conducted with second year BSN studen...

Introduction: At a population level, there is a poor understanding of the incidence and pre-disposing risk factors of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) among women with inherited bleeding disorders (IBD). Aim: To determine the incidence of PPH, and identify maternal factors associated with risk of PPH among women with IBD. Methods: We conducted a r...

Introduction: Co-occurring PTSD and dementia in Veterans can be difficult to distinguish from dementia-related responsive behaviours, which may result in inappropriate care management. Improved identification of PTSD and dementia is necessary to inform more appropriate and effective care for Veterans. Aim/question: The purpose of this study was...

Co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and dementia can result in increased symptoms, such as suspicion, aggression, and nightmares in Veterans that can be difficult to manage in long-term care environments. The objective of the study was to explore how the co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and dementia are unders...

Ensuring high quality end of life (EOL) care is necessary for people with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), given its high incidence, mortality and symptom burden. Aggressive EOL care can adversely affect the quality of life of NSCLC patients without providing meaningful oncologic benefit. Objectives: (1) To describe EOL health service...

Background: AIMS: To investigate characteristics of emerging adults accessing a specialized chronic non-cancer pain clinic and describe interventions offered and utilized by this group. Design: A retrospective chart review was conducted of emerging adults and middle-aged adults with chronic pain receiving care over a six-month period. Setting:...

Objective: The first objective of this scoping review is to identify all the tools designed to measure movement or mobility in adults. The second objective is to compare the tools to the conceptual definitions of movement and mobility by mapping them to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Introduction: T...

Objective: This review will explore definitions of early palliative care and describe how it has been implemented for those diagnosed with a life-limiting chronic illness. Introduction: People with life-limiting chronic illnesses who receive palliative care interventions have increased quality of life, better symptom management, and are more lik...

Background Building research capacity in nursing academic units continues to be a challenge. There are a number of external contextual factors and internal factors that influence individual faculty as well as the collective to engage successfully in research. Purpose The overall aim of this opinion article is to provide an overview of the current...

Emerging research has found an association between post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dementia in veterans, yet little is known about the nature of this association and how it is conceptualized in the literature. The purpose of this scoping review is to understand how the relationship between PTSD and dementia in veterans is recognized and d...

Background Healthcare resources are limited and unnecessary, and inappropriate emergency department use is now a highly visible healthcare priority. Individuals visiting the emergency department for mental health-related reasons are often amongst the most frequent presenters. In response, researchers and clinicians have created interventions to str...

Culturally competent frameworks used within health care systems are contributing to the discrimination and marginalization of sexually and/or gender diverse persons. In this discursive paper, we argue that cultural humility ought to be implemented as the best practice approach for fostering sexually and gender diverse positive spaces in public heal...

Abstract Background: Classroom response systems (CRSs) support interactive learning in undergraduate nursing education. Simple “clicker” hardware has evolved into more sophisticated multiplatform software allowing multiple operating systems and devices including smartphones, tablets and laptops to enhance in-class, proximate student engagement. How...

Background Since 2008, Bhutanese refugees have been resettled in Canada, including Ottawa. This relocation and resettling process is associated with significant physical and psychological stress, as individuals acclimatize to a new country. Purpose To assess the relationship between coping strategies and psychological well-being of Bhutanese refug...

This study explored the feasibility and value of using a multi-platform mobile classroom response system (CRS) in the classroom and clinical simulation lab for undergraduate nursing students

Objective: Children and adolescents with a range of psychiatric disorders are increasingly being prescribed atypical or second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs). While SGAs are effective at treating conduct and behavioural symptoms, they infer significant cardiometabolic risk. This study aims to explore what patient, treatment, and health care util...

The prevalence of children and adolescents using second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) has increased significantly in recent years. In this population, SGAs are used to treat mood and behavioural disorders although considered ‘off-label’ or not approved for these indications. Metabolic monitoring is the systematic physical health assessment of an...

Introduction: The objective of this systematic review was to investigate what education and training characteristics prepares and supports health-care professionals (HCPs) in the delivery of competent and effective care to clients who use tobacco-nicotine. Methods: A search of eight bibliographic databases for English-language peer-reviewed publ...

The effects of a 12-week low-intensity exercise conditioning program (walking) on blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), rate- pressure product (RPP), and cardiac autonomic function were measured in 40 sedentary women with hypertension. Women were assigned to either an exercise group (n = 20) or a control group (n = 20), matched for β-blockade treat...

High demand for acute care nurse practitioners (ACNPs) in Canadian postoperative cardiac surgery settings has outpaced methodologically rigorous research to support the role. To compare the effectiveness of ACNP-led care to hospitalist-led care in a postoperative cardiac surgery unit in a Canadian, university-affiliated, tertiary care hospital. Pat...

The Butt Out program is a tobacco dependence intervention that provides smoking cessation counselling and pharmacotherapy for clients with severe mental illness through Vancouver Community Mental Health Services. Participants received up to 24 weeks of pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation along with 12 weeks of behavioural therapy with another 12...

Tobacco use disproportionately affects the well-being of individuals with mental illness. In community psychiatric settings, there are culturally embedded attitudes and behaviors regarding smoking that enable practitioners to remain ambivalent about their clients' tobacco use. Given these cultural norms, the authors aimed to introduce evidence-info...