Valerie D’Paiva's research while affiliated with Health Canada and other places

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Objectives To establish the factorial structure and internal consistency of the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) in parents, the level and correlates of problematic internet use, and patterns and types of screen use. Study design Data were collected through an online questionnaire about preconception health among Canadian women and men with ≥1 child....
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The Public Health Branch of the Regional Municipality of York created a specialized team to ensure a people-centred approach for the deployment of the workforce during COVID-19. Due to increasing stress and staff burnout, there was an apparent need for enhanced leadership supports that would expand the skills of managers to apply participative mana...
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Objectives Mindfulness interventions have been found to positively impact mental health, decrease stress and increase resilience. Nevertheless, mindfulness is not commonly included in routine prenatal resources. The purpose of this study was to conduct the first step in the scaling up approach to intervention dissemination by examining parents’ kno...

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... Dr. Kimberly Young developed internet addiction test in 1998 in order to assess the symptoms of compulsivity and addiction with regard to internet and digital technology use (Dennis et al., 2022). IAT consists of 20 items self-report questionnaire with response category from 1 to 5. The potential range of the test is from 0 to 100, where a higher score indicates greater tendency of addiction and dependency on internet and digital media (Young, 2015). ...
... This seems to reflect the idea that leadership has a mediating effect and could be seen as a resilience strategy [67]. It also reflects a more psychological aspect of resilience, such as in Bhimani et al. [125]. ...
... As an example, health care policies could be reimagined to provide psychological intervention and protection to circumvent the detrimental impact of racial discrimination and stress on Black mothers. Many generalized stress interventions have been tested (143,144), but to our knowledge, there are no evidence-based interventions specifically designed to tackle race-based discrimination stress in racially minoritized pregnant mothers. ...