Wendy A Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 148432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy A Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3816-2908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Two-Eyed Seeing for Parents
This paper describes development of an offline app entitled Two-Eyed Seeing for Parents, which promotes syilx Okanagan Territory parents’ knowledge, confidence, and cultural practices for supporting optimal infant development, including exposure to their traditional language (nsyilxcən). “Two-Eyed Seeing” blends Indigenous and Western epistemic principles (syilx traditions complemented and supported by evidence-based content). Elders, members of …
A policy analysis of sleep-related legislation for Canadian licensed childcare facilities
Although we identified themes related to sleep across regulations, childcare regulations differ in their definitions of infants and specifications for children's sleep and rest in licensed Canadian childcare facilities. Without adequate definitions in legislative components of appropriate sleep duration linked to children's developmental stages, childcare facilities lack guidance to support healthy sleep for children in their care. Future researc…
Seeing Red
Persistent intense anger is indicative of postpartum distress, yet maternal anger has been little explored after childbirth. Using grounded theory, we explained how and why mothers develop intense anger after childbirth and the actions they take to manage their anger. Twenty mothers of healthy singleton infants described their experiences of anger during the first two postpartum years. Mothers indicated they became angry when they had violated ex…
Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine on the Recommended Amount of Sleep for Healthy Children
Recommended Amount of Sleep for Pediatric Populations
Maximizing Theoretical Contributions of Participant Observation While Managing Challenges
Participant observation (PO) is an important method of data collection used in a variety of research methodologies. PO can inform theory development by providing understanding of participants' behaviors and the contexts that influence their behaviors. Because theory development is important in grounded theory studies, we emphasize theoretical contributions of PO while interrogating the challenges of using PO, in particular, attending to informed …
Caregivers' Management of Schooling for Their Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
In this article we describe a grounded theory study of how caregivers of school-aged children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) managed their children's schooling. We completed 30 interviews with 17 caregivers residing in a western Canadian province, as well as document analysis and 25 hours of participant observation. We used constant comparative analysis to construct our substantive theory: intertwining to fit in. The core variable is…
Attitudes and Preferences of Young Women With Low and High Fear of Childbirth
We examined constructions of labor and birth for 461 Canadian women who attended the University of British Columbia (Canada) and participated in an online survey about pregnancy and birth, using a combination of Likert items and open-ended questions. We performed a content analysis of women's open-ended responses about their feelings toward birth and analyzed comments of women with high and low fear of childbirth separately. Students with high fe…
Translating Knowledge Directly to Childbearing Women
Knowledge translation has relied on research products that take years to disseminate, losing relevance for intended users. We used a mixed-methods approach to determine women's preferences for research results and format, intention to share results, and potential benefits. We sampled healthy, pregnant women who completed survey data during their third trimesters and wanted access to results. Mothers preferred results about sleep, fears, and anxie…
Canadian Care Providers' and Pregnant Women's Approaches to Managing Birth
We employed grounded theory to explain how Canadian pregnant women and care providers manage birth. The sample comprised 9 pregnant women and 56 intrapartum care providers (family doctors, midwives, nurses, obstetricians, and doulas [individuals providing labor support]). We collected data from 2008 to 2009, using focus groups that included care providers and pregnant women. Using concurrent data collection and analysis, we generated the core cat…
Public Health Nurses’ (PHNs) Perceptions of their Role in Early Postpartum Discharge
Gauging Visibility
Our aim was to explain how female clerical workers manage work-related distress, using a feminist grounded theory method. Thirty-seven interviews were conducted with 24 female clerical workers. They engage in the process of gauging visibility to manage a recognition-vulnerability paradox. To gauge visibility, they take the lay of the land by attending to threats, resources, and supports within withering or flourishing work conditions. When distre…
Children's Perceptions of Living With a Parent With a Mental Illness
In this article, we explain how children managed their experiences of living with a parent with a mental illness. Symbolic interactionism served as the theoretical framework. The sample comprised 22 children between 6 and 16 years of age, who were living part- or full-time with a parent with depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar illness. Data collection included interviews, participant observation, and drawing. Concurrent data collection and cons…
Qualitative Teamwork Issues and Strategies
Multidisciplinary research teams that include faculty, students, and volunteers can be challenging and enriching for all participants. Although such teams are becoming commonplace, minimal guidance is available about strategies to enhance team effectiveness. In this article, the authors highlight strategies to guide qualitative teamwork through coordination of team members and tasks based on mutual adjustment. Using a grounded theory exemplar, th…
Enhancing the Rigor of Grounded Theory
Some proponents of the grounded theory method appear to treat interview and participant observation data as though they mirror informants' realities. Others claim that grounded theory incorporates reflexivity. It is claimed in this article that the principal texts on grounded theory do not attend to the effects of interactions between researchers and participants in interview and participant observation contexts. Descriptions of the effects of in…
Enhancing the Rigor of Grounded Theory
Some proponents of the grounded theory method appear to treat interview and participant observation data as though they mirror informants' realities. Others claim that grounded theory incorporates reflexivity. It is claimed in this article that the principal texts on grounded theory do not attend to the effects of interactions between researchers and participants in interview and participant observation contexts. Descriptions of the effects of in…
Qualitative Teamwork Issues and Strategies
Multidisciplinary research teams that include faculty, students, and volunteers can be challenging and enriching for all participants. Although such teams are becoming commonplace, minimal guidance is available about strategies to enhance team effectiveness. In this article, the authors highlight strategies to guide qualitative teamwork through coordination of team members and tasks based on mutual adjustment. Using a grounded theory exemplar, th…
Children's Perceptions of Living With a Parent With a Mental Illness
In this article, we explain how children managed their experiences of living with a parent with a mental illness. Symbolic interactionism served as the theoretical framework. The sample comprised 22 children between 6 and 16 years of age, who were living part- or full-time with a parent with depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar illness. Data collection included interviews, participant observation, and drawing. Concurrent data collection and cons…
Maximizing Theoretical Contributions of Participant Observation While Managing Challenges
Participant observation (PO) is an important method of data collection used in a variety of research methodologies. PO can inform theory development by providing understanding of participants' behaviors and the contexts that influence their behaviors. Because theory development is important in grounded theory studies, we emphasize theoretical contributions of PO while interrogating the challenges of using PO, in particular, attending to informed …
Attitudes and Preferences of Young Women With Low and High Fear of Childbirth
We examined constructions of labor and birth for 461 Canadian women who attended the University of British Columbia (Canada) and participated in an online survey about pregnancy and birth, using a combination of Likert items and open-ended questions. We performed a content analysis of women's open-ended responses about their feelings toward birth and analyzed comments of women with high and low fear of childbirth separately. Students with high fe…
Canadian Care Providers' and Pregnant Women's Approaches to Managing Birth
We employed grounded theory to explain how Canadian pregnant women and care providers manage birth. The sample comprised 9 pregnant women and 56 intrapartum care providers (family doctors, midwives, nurses, obstetricians, and doulas [individuals providing labor support]). We collected data from 2008 to 2009, using focus groups that included care providers and pregnant women. Using concurrent data collection and analysis, we generated the core cat…
Caregivers' Management of Schooling for Their Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
In this article we describe a grounded theory study of how caregivers of school-aged children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) managed their children's schooling. We completed 30 interviews with 17 caregivers residing in a western Canadian province, as well as document analysis and 25 hours of participant observation. We used constant comparative analysis to construct our substantive theory: intertwining to fit in. The core variable is…
Gauging Visibility
Our aim was to explain how female clerical workers manage work-related distress, using a feminist grounded theory method. Thirty-seven interviews were conducted with 24 female clerical workers. They engage in the process of gauging visibility to manage a recognition-vulnerability paradox. To gauge visibility, they take the lay of the land by attending to threats, resources, and supports within withering or flourishing work conditions. When distre…
Enhancing the Rigor of Grounded Theory
Some proponents of the grounded theory method appear to treat interview and participant observation data as though they mirror informants' realities. Others claim that grounded theory incorporates reflexivity. It is claimed in this article that the principal texts on grounded theory do not attend to the effects of interactions between researchers and participants in interview and participant observation contexts. Descriptions of the effects of in…
Qualitative Teamwork Issues and Strategies
Multidisciplinary research teams that include faculty, students, and volunteers can be challenging and enriching for all participants. Although such teams are becoming commonplace, minimal guidance is available about strategies to enhance team effectiveness. In this article, the authors highlight strategies to guide qualitative teamwork through coordination of team members and tasks based on mutual adjustment. Using a grounded theory exemplar, th…
Public Health Nurses’ (PHNs) Perceptions of their Role in Early Postpartum Discharge
Gauging Visibility
Our aim was to explain how female clerical workers manage work-related distress, using a feminist grounded theory method. Thirty-seven interviews were conducted with 24 female clerical workers. They engage in the process of gauging visibility to manage a recognition-vulnerability paradox. To gauge visibility, they take the lay of the land by attending to threats, resources, and supports within withering or flourishing work conditions. When distre…
Children's Perceptions of Living With a Parent With a Mental Illness
In this article, we explain how children managed their experiences of living with a parent with a mental illness. Symbolic interactionism served as the theoretical framework. The sample comprised 22 children between 6 and 16 years of age, who were living part- or full-time with a parent with depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar illness. Data collection included interviews, participant observation, and drawing. Concurrent data collection and cons…
Translating Knowledge Directly to Childbearing Women
Knowledge translation has relied on research products that take years to disseminate, losing relevance for intended users. We used a mixed-methods approach to determine women's preferences for research results and format, intention to share results, and potential benefits. We sampled healthy, pregnant women who completed survey data during their third trimesters and wanted access to results. Mothers preferred results about sleep, fears, and anxie…
Canadian Care Providers' and Pregnant Women's Approaches to Managing Birth
We employed grounded theory to explain how Canadian pregnant women and care providers manage birth. The sample comprised 9 pregnant women and 56 intrapartum care providers (family doctors, midwives, nurses, obstetricians, and doulas [individuals providing labor support]). We collected data from 2008 to 2009, using focus groups that included care providers and pregnant women. Using concurrent data collection and analysis, we generated the core cat…
Attitudes and Preferences of Young Women With Low and High Fear of Childbirth
We examined constructions of labor and birth for 461 Canadian women who attended the University of British Columbia (Canada) and participated in an online survey about pregnancy and birth, using a combination of Likert items and open-ended questions. We performed a content analysis of women's open-ended responses about their feelings toward birth and analyzed comments of women with high and low fear of childbirth separately. Students with high fe…
Caregivers' Management of Schooling for Their Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
In this article we describe a grounded theory study of how caregivers of school-aged children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) managed their children's schooling. We completed 30 interviews with 17 caregivers residing in a western Canadian province, as well as document analysis and 25 hours of participant observation. We used constant comparative analysis to construct our substantive theory: intertwining to fit in. The core variable is…
Maximizing Theoretical Contributions of Participant Observation While Managing Challenges
Participant observation (PO) is an important method of data collection used in a variety of research methodologies. PO can inform theory development by providing understanding of participants' behaviors and the contexts that influence their behaviors. Because theory development is important in grounded theory studies, we emphasize theoretical contributions of PO while interrogating the challenges of using PO, in particular, attending to informed …
Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine on the Recommended Amount of Sleep for Healthy Children
Recommended Amount of Sleep for Pediatric Populations
Seeing Red
Persistent intense anger is indicative of postpartum distress, yet maternal anger has been little explored after childbirth. Using grounded theory, we explained how and why mothers develop intense anger after childbirth and the actions they take to manage their anger. Twenty mothers of healthy singleton infants described their experiences of anger during the first two postpartum years. Mothers indicated they became angry when they had violated ex…
A policy analysis of sleep-related legislation for Canadian licensed childcare facilities
Although we identified themes related to sleep across regulations, childcare regulations differ in their definitions of infants and specifications for children's sleep and rest in licensed Canadian childcare facilities. Without adequate definitions in legislative components of appropriate sleep duration linked to children's developmental stages, childcare facilities lack guidance to support healthy sleep for children in their care. Future researc…
Two-Eyed Seeing for Parents
This paper describes development of an offline app entitled Two-Eyed Seeing for Parents, which promotes syilx Okanagan Territory parents’ knowledge, confidence, and cultural practices for supporting optimal infant development, including exposure to their traditional language (nsyilxcən). “Two-Eyed Seeing” blends Indigenous and Western epistemic principles (syilx traditions complemented and supported by evidence-based content). Elders, members of …
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Grounded theory (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (4 works)