Melissa Brouwers

Biographic Data

ID5410660
NAMEMelissa Brouwers
GIVEN NAMESMelissa
FAMILY NAMEBrouwers
SIGNATUREBROUWERS M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ottawa
ORCID0000-0002-9699-0269
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Strengthening vaccine effectiveness research to rebuild public trust

    Open AccessGiorgia Sulis, Melissa Brouwers et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

  • Identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing harm reduction services in prisons

    Open AccessO Varsaneux, Mathieu Charest et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2025

    Several multi-level barriers and facilitators to accessing prison-based HRS exist. To improve HRS uptake, implementing holistic education for PIP and carceral employees, enhancing awareness of HRS through peer-led initiatives, and ensuring buy-in and support from prison leadership will be important. Furthermore, allocation of specific resources and enhanced policies that promote HRS will be beneficial

  • One size doesn’t fit all

    Open AccessGuillaume Fontaine, Maureen A Smith et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Effective community engagement in behavioural science research can lead to more inclusive and representative research. The community engagement approach developed and applied in this study acknowledges the diversity of communities, recognizes the central role of PHUs, and can help in addressing complex public health challenges

  • Physical distancing messages targeting youth on the social media accounts of Canadian public health entities and the use of behavioral change techniques

    Open AccessSheryll Dimanlig-Cruz, Arum Han et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    There is a need for more PD messaging that explicitly targets youth. BCTs should be used when designing posts to deliver public health messages and social media platforms should be selected depending on the target population

  • Agree Ii

    Open AccessMelissa Brouwers, M C Brouwers et al.ARTICLECanadian Medical Association…2010

    Clinical practice guidelines, which are systematically developed statements aimed at helping people make clinical, policy-related and system-related decisions,[1][1],[2][2] frequently vary widely in quality.[3][3],[4][4] A strategy was needed to differentiate among guidelines and ensure that those

  • A Family-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyles in an Aboriginal Community in Canada

    Open Accessbehalf of the SHARE-AP ACTION Investigators, Sonia S Anand et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2007Cited by: 5References: 22

  • Uncertainty orientation and protection motivation theory

    Melissa C Brouwers, Melissa Brouwers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1993Cited by: 6

    The experiment was designed to determine the influence of uncertainty orientation (R. M. Sorrentino, J. C. Short, 1986) on compliance with a diagnostic health behavior. Ss (N=155) read 1 version of an education essay on a disease and diagnostic response. Threat and efficacy information were manipulated. Consistent with protection motivation theory (R. W. Rogers, 1983), uncertainty-oriented Ss sought more health-related information as threat and e…