Marie-Josée Levert

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Faculty of Nursing

Background: The APIC (Citizen Accompaniment Project for Community Integration) is an innovative program that seeks to increase the community integration of people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) by offering the support of an accompanying citizen (AC) in the accomplishment of significant life activities. Objective: This article aims to better...

This pilot project aims to test and see the relevance of the direct observation method to collect data on the barriers and facilitators to attending public places by seniors with TBI. The study is based on the conceptual framework VADA WHO which focuses on the development of friendly built and technological environments for seniors. Three elderly p...

Background: Social participation, a determinant of health in older adults, requires innovative interventions. The personalised citizen assistance for social participation (APIC) involves weekly three-hour personalised stimulation sessions targeting significant social and leisure activities difficult to accomplish. Recently adapted for older adults,...

Despite numerous Quebec initiatives to improve transitional care for patients with chronic diseases such as cancer, clinical teams and patients still encounter some difficulties during these transitions. This article presents a review of the literature on the involvement of clinical teams and patient-as-partners in the changes made to clinical prac...

Résumé Malgré de nombreuses initiatives québécoises pour améliorer la gestion des planifications de sortie et des transitions de soins offerts aux patients atteints d’un cancer, plusieurs défis persistent à ce jour notamment sur le plan des transferts de soins, des suivis, du soutien et de la communication entre professionnels de santé. Cet article...

Objectif Dans le cadre d’un projet évaluatif d’accompagnement citoyen à l’intégration dans la communauté (APIC), des personnes ayant subi un traumatisme crânien cérébral (TCC) ont fréquenté différents lieux publics. La présente étude vise à rendre compte des facteurs facilitants et contraignants associés à ce type d’activités. Méthode De type qual...

Introduction: Only limited data are available concerning the perception of quality of life and social participation of people with mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI). The APIC personalized community integration support programme encourages people with TBI to achieve significant daily living or leisure activities. Objectives: To explore the socia...

APIC (Citizen Accompaniment Project for Community Integration) offers support for the social integration of people living with traumatic brain injury. The accompanying citizen meets the person three hours a week for a period of a year in order to offer assistance in the accomplishment of his/her projects and activities. This role confronts the acco...

most people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) live with physical, sensory, or psychological sequelae that affect their day-to-day functioning and prevent them from performing their regular activities. a Citizen Accompaniment for Community Integration project (APIC) was implemented for people with TBI to fulfill the lack of access to resources and...

L’accompagnement personnalise d’integration communautaire (APIC) offre un soutien aux personnes ayant un traumatisme craniocerebral (TCC) qui vivent des difficultes d’integration sociale. Dans ce programme, l’accompagnateur citoyen rencontre une personne trois heures par semaine pendant un an afin de la soutenir dans la realisation de ses projets e...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health concern that presents real challenges for health care systems throughout the world. Through an international partnership between Canadian and French researchers, a vast qualitative study aimed to explore the needs of individuals with TBIs and their loved ones throughout the continuum of car...

This study aims to paint a picture of the needs of people close to individuals with a TBI and the services offered to answer these needs, from the point of view of the individuals with a TBI and health professionals. This study has a qualitative design and a reflexive group was used to collect data. The démarche réflexive d'analyse en partenariat,...

This qualitative study explored the adaptation/transformation process in mothers and fathers at the individual, parental, marital and extrafamilial levels, and the similarities and differences in their experience of living with a child with cerebral palsy. Interviews were conducted with 13 mothers and 13 fathers of children with cerebral palsy. The...

Le concept de resilience interesse de plus en plus les chercheurs, les intervenants, les gestionnaires et les usagers des services de readaptation. Toutefois, les ecrits concernant des interventions soutenant la resilience des personnes et des proches sont tres peu abondants. Cet article propose de decrire un programme d’accompagnement communautair...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has damaging impacts on victims and family members' lives and their long-term social integration constitutes a major challenge. The objective of the study was to document the repercussions of TBI on victims' long-term social integration (10 years post-trauma) and the contribution made by the services received from the p...

Information needs of families of children with a disability : the viewpoint of parents and health professionals This preliminary study aimed at documenting the needs of families having a child with a disability concerning information, from the point of view of both parents and professionals involved with them. Three discussion groups were carried o...

The information conveyed to patients and families dealing with a health problem such as traumatic brain injury or stroke combines with what they already know to form a new pool of knowledge. The aim of this pilot study was to describe the information needs of family caregivers, their sources of information, their strategies for gathering informatio...

The information conveyed to patients and families dealing with a health problem such as traumatic brain injury or stroke combines with what they already know to form a new pool of knowledge. The aim of this pilot study was to describe the information needs of family caregivers, their sources of information, their strategies for gathering informatio...

Informal family knowledge of and formal knowledge of health care professionals: responding better to the needs of families with a child with a disability This article presents the results of three discussion groups: two were groups of parents, one of children with Down syndrome, the other of children with a cerebral palsy; the third group comprised...

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This preliminary study aimed at documenting the needs of families having a child with a disability concerning information, from the point of view of both parents and professionals involved with them. Three discussion groups were carried out : two with parents of children with Down's syndrome or cerebral palsy, and another group with health professi...

The birth of a child is a transitional situation that triggers stress in the family and each person has to use adjustment strategies allowing them to reposition gradually in relation to themselves and other members of the family, and to make space for the new arrival. When the child has a health problem, the stress on the parents is correspondingly...

L’ADÉQUATION ENTRE LES BESOINS VÉCUS PAR LES PROCHES DE PERSONNES AYANT UN TRAUMATISME CRÂNIEN ET LES SERVICES OFFERTS PAR LE CONTINUUM DE SOINS ~ Sommaire exécutif ~ SOUS LA DIRECTION D’HÉLÈNE LEFEBVRE, PH.D. Programme de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale en traumatologie DÉCEMBRE 2007 MSSS REPAR SAAQ

Contexte : Tout au long de l’épisode de soins du traumatisme craniocérébral (TCC), le type de relation qui se construit entre la famille et les professionnels joue un rôle important dans l’adaptation de la personne ayant un TCC et de ses proches. Cependant, l’établissement d’un partenariat ne se fait pas sans heurts et suscite souvent de l’insatisf...

Information for the development of knowledge in support of family caregivers’ resilience The purpose of this preliminary study was to document the information needs and sources of family caregivers as well as the strategies they use to obtain information. Two discussion groups were created: one comprised of caregivers who accompany victims of brain...

Throughout the delivery of care after traumatic brain injury, the type of relationship that develops between the family and the professionals has a major effect on the day-by-day adjustment of traumatic brain injury individuals and their relatives. Seventeen health professionals from different disciplines working with the traumatic brain injury cli...

Grieving is a phenomenon usually experienced upon the death of a loved one. However, other situations involving loss may prove just as difficult and involve a grieving process: loss of identity, loss of use of a limb or a sense such as sight or hearing, inability to achieve certain ambitions, loss of autonomy, moving house, job loss, separation or...

The treatment and the follow-up of the persons having a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) represent an important for the health system insurance companies. However, the repercussions of the interventions on the person and his close relatives remain little documented. This paper presents the results of a pilot project aiming at describing the adequa...

The treatment and the follow-up of the persons having a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) represent an important for the health system insurance companies. However, the repercussions of the interventions on the person and his close relatives remain little documented. This paper presents the results of a pilot project aiming at describing the adequa...

This paper presents research results regarding disclosure of traumatic brain injury (TBI) diagnosis and resulting deficits of a study aiming to investigate the experiences of individuals who had sustained a TBI, their families, the physicians and health professionals involved, from the critical care episodes and subsequent rehabilitation. Semi-stru...

To investigate the experiences of individuals who had sustained a traumatic brain injury, their families and the physicians and health professionals involved, from the critical care episodes and subsequent rehabilitation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals who had sustained a TBI (n =8) and their families (n = 8) as well as...

Résumé La naissance d’un enfant est une situation transitionnelle qui suscite un stress au sein de la famille et implique la mise en oeuvre de stratégies adaptatives qui permettront graduellement à chacun de se resituer face à lui-même et face à l’autre et de faire une place à ce nouvel être. Lorsque l’enfant présente un problème de santé, le stres...

This is a study of medical care when road accident incidents result in traumatic brain injury (TBI). We investigated the personal perceptions of those involved in acute care episodes and subsequent rehabilitation. We conducted simultaneous semi-structured interviews with individuals who had sustained a TBI (8) and their families (8). We then conduc...

This is a study of medical care when road accident incidents result in traumatic brain injury (TBI). We investigated the personal perceptions of those involved in acute care episodes and subsequent rehabilitation. We conducted simultaneous semi-structured interviews with individuals who had sustained a TBI (8) and their families (8). We then conduc...

is an e-learning course (on the Web) on interdisciplinary family intervention, the purpose of which is skill acquisition for professionals. The objective is to enable them to better support the resilience of people and families in complex health situations. Seventeen acute care and rehabilitation healthcare professionals (nurse, physiotherapist, so...