Lise Renaud

• Ph.D.
• University of Quebec in Montreal

Online social support platforms (discussion forums, Facebook groups, chat rooms, etc.) are increasingly used by people living with chronic diseases and their caregivers, who aspire to exchange with people living with similar problems outside their traditional network. The objective of this literature review is to present online social support inter...

This paper evaluates if Morin-Chartier’s content analysis, when adapted to Portuguese, can successfully be applied to texts on health and diet published in a Brazilian newspaper. This is a cross-section study. The texts were collected from the Brazilian newspaper O Dia between January 2014 and July 2015. Texts written on the subject of health and d...

In this article, a definition of the field of research and intervention on communication for health is proposed. This field involves the study and use of interpersonal, organizational and media communication strategies to inform and influence individual and collective decisions that improve health. Communication for health is a transversal and spec...

Healthy eating is one of the main themes of health promotion and source of journalistic information. The research analyzes the content of a popular Rio de Janeiro regional newspaper and the discourse of the collective subject of its journalists. With a quantitative, descriptive and exploratory methodology, it was observed that the paper focuses on...

Objective: The goal of this review is to present online social support interventions described in recent scientific literature, in order to (i) guide organizations wishing to develop such an intervention or to improve an existing program, and (ii) to identify future research directions and recommendations for practitioners. Methods and results:...

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Health promotion is a behavioral, political, and social practice aimed at meeting the individual and collective needs and aspirations of citizens. Since the Ottawa Charter (1986), new information and communication technologies (NICTs) have been understood as an integral part of health promotion and are found in international documents that establis...

A alimentação saudável é um dos principais temas da promoção da saúde e fonte de informação jornalística. A pesquisa analisa o conteúdo de jornal regional popular carioca e discurso do sujeito coletivo de suas jornalistas. Com metodologia quantiqualitativa, descritiva e exploratória, observou-se que o jornal dá foco aos efeitos de alimentos específ...

This article describes and evaluates the educational online game Pour bien vivre, vivons sainement !, which aims to increase players' knowledge about physical aspects of health (nutrition, physical activity, sleep and fatigue), to reduce the risk situations, to highlight the importance of social interactions with family members and friends and to i...

Background: This study explored the French media’s presentation of ideas and medical information about prostate cancer (PC) that may influence men’s understanding, attitudes and behavior. Methods: A qualitative media content analysis centered on PC information delivered by French professional media. The selected data were produced in the aftermath...

Aging adults face many challenges, including declining physical and cognitive abilities, loss of companions and social support, family changes, loss of professional identity, changing lifestyles, and increasing likelihood of developing chronic and debilitating disease. Evidence suggests that digital games can improve older adults’ quality of life t...

In the current context of aging populations, digital games can increase cognitive skills and decrease loneliness among elders. However, it is hard to access data about elders’ uses of digital games. We have administered a survey to 1,208 Canadian elders from British Columbia and Québec. Our findings show that several factors independently influence...

This developmental research study aimed to design, implement and evaluate an online educational game to improve the quality of life for seniors aged 55 years and older. The game Live Well, Live Healthy! (cvje2.savie.ca) is a Bingo game in which the learning content in the study is integrated into the mechanism of the game. A “pre-test/post-test” si...

Setting up a community of practice makes it possible to investigate the interactive dynamics of the group and its relation to leadership. What are the conditions for setting up and maintaining a community of practice? What circumstances enhance the cohesion of the group? The community studied concerns a partnership between members of the public and...

Background Survivors’ testimonies can reveal much about men’s experiences of prostate cancer and impacts on their quality of life (QOL) during the clinical trajectory of the disease. These survivors’ shared thoughts and views were hypothesized to reflect salient features of their lived social representation of prostate cancer. Context We explored...

The use of digital or non-digital games as a communication medium was examined among 317 Quebec seniors over the age of 55. In order to better understand the habits of digital or non-digital games, the creation of a typology was essential to classify the survey data under discriminatory categories. We first analyzed some fifteen typologies and taxo...

Background. Empirical evidence suggests that digital gameplay can enhance social interaction and improve cognition for older adults. However, if digital games are to be effectively used as interventions to address age-related challenges, it is important to explore older adults’ experiences in playing them. Aim. The purpose of this survey design stu...

Les outils Web 2.0 peuvent répondre aux besoins des équipes de recherche voulant maximiser la circulation de l’information et la collaboration. Cet article présente les résultats de l’analyse de besoins, première étape de cette étude de recherche et développement. Après avoir cerné un corpus d’outils Web 2.0, un questionnaire a été envoyé auprès d’...

L’intention générale de ce projet consiste, par l’utilisation des outils Web 2.0, à l’amélioration de la collaboration et du développement de l’intelligence collective au sein des équipes de recherche qui s’intéressent aux problématiques touchant la communication et la santé, par l’entremise d’une formation. « Comment pouvons-nous utiliser les outi...

What do we know about the ergonomic criteria that are needed to create an effective online educational game for seniors? A literature review was conducted as part of a development project to flesh out a number of issues: How can game component design be adapted to accommodate seniors’ physical or intellectual limitations? How should a game interfac...

A literature review was conducted as part of a development project to flesh out a number of issues: How can game component design be adapted to accommodate seniors’ physical or intellectual limitations? How should a game interface and its components be displayed on the screen to facilitate game navigation? What restrictions should be considered whe...

O sistema único de saúde brasileiro comporta 27.000 equipes de saúde da família com uma rede de cerca de 300.000 Agentes Comunitários de Saúde cuja responsabilidade é a de conectar as famílias que são visitadas mensalmente com os profissionais de saúde da unidade de saúde da família. Desde 2003, o Québec realiza uma reforma no setor da saúde e serv...

Appropriating the message on cancer screening and prevention The promotion of screenings and disease prevention by health authorities is nothing new, yet research is scarce on their actual impact, and even more on the topic of the reception of such campaigns. This article follows a focus-group study on the reception, understanding and appropriation...

This project aims to assess how Brazilian community health agents’ critical awareness of the social determinants of health was enhanced and led to a greater understanding of the major structural changes necessary to sustain health promotion initiatives. Educational workshops inspired by Paulo Freire’s ideas on critical pedagogy were delivered to 82...

Strategies to increase the brief interventions in smoking cessation among nurses in hospital settings : experimental study Introduction : research results demonstrate a decrease in cigarette smoking when preventive professional interventions are routinely carried out. Literature reports that 30% of hospital nurses assess their patient smoking habit...

Research results demonstrate a decrease in cigarette smoking when preventive professional interventions are routinely carried out. Literature reports that 30% of hospital nurses assess their patient smoking habits. The objective of the present study is to compare, on medical and surgical units, the effectiveness of three strategies (interactive edu...

Our Canadian project is investigating the use of digital games to enhance seniors' quality of life. By digital games we mean games played face-to-face or online on a computer, handheld device, or videogame machine. A shift is occurring towards an aging population as the proportion of people aged 60 and over is growing rapidly. Successful aging, tha...

Gerontology researchers have demonstrated that cognitive and social factors are keys that may sometimes outweigh physical conditions in determining life satisfaction. Social interaction and cognitive challenge are consistently identified as key elements to enhance older adults' quality of life. Digital games can offer many potential benefits to old...

Revue de communication sociale et publique 9 | 2013 Varia Typologie des jeunes à l'égard de la pratique d'activités physiques et stratégies communicationnelles appropriées pour la promouvoir Teenager typology regarding the practice of physical activities and appropriate communicationnal strategies to permote it

We have developed a new nanothermite based polymeric electro-thermal initiator for non-contact ignition of a propellant. A reactive Al/CuO multilayer nanothermite resides on a 100 µm thick SU-8/PET (polyethyleneterephtalate) membrane to insulate the reactive layer from the silicon bulk substrate. When current is supplied to the initiator, the chemi...

This research identifies the profiles of youth aged 15 to 17, having an impact on their level of physical activity, and identifies the characteristics of communication strategies promoting an active lifestyle. A differentiated social marketing approach based on segmentation (age, gender and lifestyle) was used to structure this project.The comments...

Nurses in hospitals are not active in smoking cessation because of certain beliefs and attitudes. Beliefs and attitudes must be measured for changing practice in quitting smoking. The objective is to develop and validate a questionnaire on smoking cessation practices of nurses in hospitals. A methodological study was conducted to construct a questi...

Les infirmières de milieu hospitalier interviennent peu pour inciter les patients à cesser le tabac à cause de certaines croyances et attitudes. Pour changer ces pratiques infirmières, leurs croyances et attitudes doivent être mesurées. L’objectif est d’élaborer et valider un questionnaire sur les pratiques en cessation tabagique du personnel infir...

In order to facilitate the use of online serious games in schools, a team from the Centre for expertise and research in lifelong learning (SAVIE), under the supervision of professor and researcher Louise Sauvé, focused on developing and experimenting on the Generic Serious Game Shell (GSGS). This is done in order to equip teachers with the ability...

This article consists of four sections: (1) the problems associated with asthma in the province of Québec and across Canada; (2) the theoretical framework for the learning enhanced by our online educational game entitled Asthme: 1,2,3 ... Respirez! (Asthma: 1,2,3 ... Breath!), created by adapting the popular board game Parcheesi, and intended for s...

Dans le cadre d’une étude financée par le Conseil de recherche en sciences sociales et humaines (CRSH, 2008-2011), nous examinons l’efficacité d’un jeu éducatif en ligne sur l’apprentissage cognitif (structuration des connaissances) et affectif (changement d'attitudes). Construit à partir des règles du jeu de société Parchési auxquelles plusieurs a...

Asthme : 1, 2, 3… Respirez ! is an on-line educational game on asthma, created by family doctors, education professionals, on-line game specialists and researchers. Its objective is to influence health attitudes. This article discusses the impact of a Parchesi type on-line game on attitudes related to asthma with 133 students, aged from 14 to 18 ye...

This study examined the impact of an online educational game on knowledge and attitudes around the topic of asthma. Asthma is one of the more prevalent chronic diseases in Canada, affecting more than 10% of the population. The consequences of this disease are numerous and the human and socio-economic costs that result from this are enormous. Starti...

The authors of this chapter carried out a systematic review of the literature from 1998 to 2008 with the goal of developing conceptual definitions of game, simulation, and simulation game based on their essential attributes. This chapter first describes the motivation for this project and its methodological approach. It then introduces the database...

The Brazilian unified health system consists of 27,000 family health teams with a network of approximately 300,000 community health agents whose mandate is to link the families they visit every month with health professionals at the family health unit. Since 2003, Quebec has been implementing its health and social services reforms by emphasizing th...

Le système unique de santé du Brésil comporte 27 000 équipes de santé familiale avec un réseau de quelques 300 000 agents communautaires de santé dont le mandat est de faire le pont entre les familles qu’ils visitent à chaque mois et les professionnels de l’unité de santé familiale. Depuis 2003, le Québec déploie une réforme dans le domaine de la s...

This article presents a knowledge circulation model developed by Groupe de recherche Médias et santé (GRMS) of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), through various strategies of knowledge mobilization. Beyond its mission of research, the GRMS aims to create bridges between researchers and stakeholders interested in health communication and comin...

In 2005, a 12-week health promotion campaign in Québec utilized a multimedia communications strategy in which a website was used to supply information and to serve as an accompaniment to support individual engagement with the campaign. The "Défi Santé 5/30" or "5/30 Health Challenge" was intended to reinforce behaviours related to healthy eating an...

In 2007, a Quebecan campaign aimed at smoking addiction cessation entitled "Défi J'arrête J'y gagne" (The "I quit I win" challenge) resorted to a multimedia communications strategy that used a range of online resources (a website and emails) to serve as support tools over a one-year period. Research on this campaign focuses on the involvement of Qu...

RÉSUMÉ Cet article présente la vision de la mobilisation et de la valorisation des connais-sances, telle que développée par le Groupe de recherche Médias et santé (GRMS) de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), à travers différentes stratégies d'échange, de transfert et de diffusion des connaissances ainsi que de mise en réseaux des acteurs. Au...

Cet article vise à justifier la pertinence d’un jeu éducatif en ligne intervenant sur les attitudes en matière de santé sexuelle. La recherche de processus auprès de dix experts permet d’examiner, entre autres, la justesse du contenu et l’adéquation du jeu au public cible ; quant à la recherche d’efficacité, elle vise à cerner, au moyen d’un questi...

This chapter presents a synthesis of the literature (1998-2008) on the efficacy of games and simulations for learning. Based on definitions and sets of essential attributes for games and for simulations, the authors examine the contributions of each to knowledge structuring and the development of problem solving skills. Noting that games and simula...

The authors of this chapter carried out a systematic review of the literature from 1998 to 2008 with the goal of developing conceptual definitions of game, simulation, and simulation game based on their essential attributes. This chapter first describes the motivation for this project and its methodological approach. It then introduces the database...

As the first of five chapters describing the development process for a generic educational game shell, this chapter discusses how the authors analyzed 40 computerized educational games to determine the main characteristics built into digital educational games. The analysis allowed comparison of game attributes with the pedagogic and technical needs...

This chapter discusses the creation of an educational game about sexually transmitted infections. STIs: Stopping the Transmission was created using the Parcheesi™ generic educational game shell (GEGS). It also presents the validation of the game with experts, followed by its trial with secondary school students to measure the effectiveness of the m...

In the context of childhood obesity prevention, ambitious novel social alliances of agents in food, physical activity, health, agriculture, and business-defined as multi-agent interventions-are needed. Within these, agents from all sectors must actively participate to create a society where healthy lifestyles are the natural option for both childre...

The authors of this chapter carried out a systematic review of the literature from 1998 to 2008 with the goal of developing conceptual definitions of game, simulation, and simulation game based on their essential attributes. This chapter first describes the motivation for this project and its methodological approach. It then introduces the database...

Résumé Notre analyse porte sur la gestion des partenariats dans un contexte de promotion de la santé. Nous utilisons une étude de cas, le « Défi Santé 5/30 », campagne québécoise de promotion de saines habitudes alimentaires, pour 1) décrire ces acteurs et la nature de leur implication durant l’élaboration, la conception et la diffusion de la campa...

As social elements of our environment, mass media are regarded as determinants of individual and population beliefs, social norms and habits. Since it is recognized that they influence population health, this study aims to obtain a better portrait of Quebec media content regarding physical activity and nutrition messages on a public health level. F...

Éléments socioculturels de l’environnement, les médias peuvent agir comme des déterminants sur les croyances, les normes et les habitudes de vie des individus et des populations. Leurs messages étant susceptibles d’influencer la santé populationnelle, nous avons cherché à connaître l’offre médiatique québécoise au regard des messages d’alimentation...

As social elements of our environment, mass media are regarded as determinants of individual and population beliefs, social norms and habits. Since it is recognized that they influence population health, this study aims to obtain a better portrait of Quebec media content regarding physical activity and nutrition messages on a public health level. F...

This article discusses an analysis of partnerships in the context of health promotion. The 5/30 Health Challenge, or "Défi Santé 5/30", is a campaign to promote healthy eating habits in Quebec. The authors employ this as a case study in order to 1) describe the actors and the nature of their involvement during the campaign's development, design and...

Our study focuses on the management of partnerships in a heath promotion context and is a part of a case study of the “Défi Santé 5/30”. This 12-week multimedia campaign held in Quebec in 2005 aimed at promoting healthy nutrition, physical activity and weight loss/control habits. The goal of our article is : 1) to describe the actors of the campaig...

La communication touchant la sante publique peut etre envisagee dans les entreprises de presse selon un processus decisionnel ou s'etablit une dynamique d'interinfluence menant a la definition des contenus d'information. En tentant de comprendre comment s'effectue le cheminement decisionnel vers l'elaboration du traitement mediatique des thematique...

Résumé En 2005, une campagne québécoise de promotion de la santé d’une durée de 12 semaines a utilisé une stratégie de communication multimédias. Au nombre de ceux-ci, l’internet offrait de l’information et proposait un accompagnement soutenant l’implication personnelle. Le « Défi Santé 5/30 » visait à renforcer les comportements en matière de sain...

Do personalized email interventions help in managing smoking addiction cessation? In 2007, a Quebecan campaign aimed at smoking addiction cessation entitled “Défi J’arrête J’y gagne” (The “I quit I win” challenge) resorted to a multimedia communications strategy that used a range of online resources (a website and emails) to serve as support tools...

This paper reports on the implementation and results of a three-year comprehensive worksite health promotion program called Take care of your health!, delivered at a single branch of a large financial organization with 656 employees at the beginning of the implementation period and 905 at the end. The program included six educational modules delive...

Résumé Cet article présente une synthèse des publications récentes (1998-2005) qui traitent des impacts du jeu, en tant que formule pédagogique, sur l’apprentissage. Constatant une grande variété d’approches, une certaine disparité dans la manière de présenter et d’interpréter les résultats, et souhaitant vérifier si les jeux éducatifs ont un impac...

Based on the hypothesis that inconclusive research results with regard to the impact of games and simulations are linked to the absence of clear concept definitions, research was undertaken to fill this methodological gap by identifying the essential attributes of games and simulations. This paper first introduces the context for our study. This is...

This article recounts the evolution of communications approaches in health-related matters: 1) the approach of modernization, also known as the linear model of behaviour change; 2) the approach of dependency, also known as awareness-raising or empowerment; and 3) the approach of new development, also known as participation and co-development. Why,...

This article recounts the evolution of communications approaches in health-related matters: 1) the approach of modernization, also known as the linear model of behaviour change; 2) the approach of dependency, also known as awareness-raising or empowerment; and 3) the approach of new development, also known as participation and co-development. Why,...

D’un point de vue global, la littératie en matière de santé est nécessaire au bien-être des populations. En adoptant cette perspective, on s’éloigne d’un accent sur l’individu pour se pencher sur le rôle des organismes et des systèmes. Cette façon de voir les choses sert de contexte pour discuter des pratiques exemplaires concernant la littératie e...

From a holistic perspective, health literacy is a requirement for the well-being of entire populations. It moves beyond the focus on individuals to consider the role of organizations and systems. This perspective offers a context for discussing best practices in health literacy, and implications for research and policy development. This paper offer...

Media-based interventions are common in health promotion, yet their conceptual underpinnings tend to be based on a simple linear model of direct influence on individuals' health behaviour. Recent studies have suggested that the processes through which media influence health behaviours are actually far more complex. This paper presents a conceptual...

Quebec's breastfeeding rates are in a deplorable state, and even more so for smoking mothers. Public health providers are trying to increase breastfeeding rates and decrease smoking in this specific target group. Should they prioritise tobacco cessation interventions, or breastfeeding promotion interventions, or give equal priority to both goals at...

More and more immersive environments are developed to provide support for learning or training purposes. Ecological validity of such environments is usually based on learning performance comparisons between virtual environments and their genuine counterparts. Little is known about learning processes occurring in immersive environments. A new techni...

Quebec’s breastfeeding rates are in a deplorable state, and even more so for smoking mothers. Public health providers are trying to increase breastfeeding rates and decrease smoking in this specific target group. Should they prioritise tobacco cessation interventions, or breastfeeding promotion interventions, or give equal priority to both goals at...

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 31--August 4, 2005.

Background The results of a study on weight loss products and services were released during a press conference organized by the Association pour la santé publique du Québec (ASPQ). The media widely covered this press conference. The purpose of this article is to answer the question: “How are messages emitted by public health institutions transmitte...

Background: The results of a study on weight loss products and services were released during a press conference organized by the Association pour la sante publique du Quebec (ASPQ). The media widely covered this press conference. The purpose of this article is to answer the question: "How are messages emitted by public health institutions transmitt...

The results of a study on weight loss products and services were released during a press conference organized by the Association pour la santé publique du Québec (ASPQ). The media widely covered this press conference. The purpose of this article is to answer the question: "How are messages emitted by public health institutions transmitted by the me...

The heart health promotion and prevention practices of nurses working in front-line services in 20 Québec CLSC's are analyzed through a qualitative (n = 47 nurses) and a quantitative approach (n = 177 nurses and n = 3802 patients). The results demonstrate that although nurses state they integrate prevention and promotion in their daily practice, pa...