Nancy Poole
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5409989 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nancy Poole |
| NOMBRES | Nancy |
| APELLIDO | Poole |
| FIRMA | POOLE N |
| AFILIACIONES | British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0932-2992 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Bridging the gaps for women in substance use treatment
This perspective provides an overview of a rapid review of research, and discussions held with Canadian treatment providers, that together illustrate how gaps persist in treatment and support for women with substance use concerns; and how attention to four elements of gender-specific treatment for women could ameliorate the situation
Effects of integrated programs for substance‐involved mothers on infant and child development outcomes
Maternal substance use is a pressing public health issue that confers risk for maternal health, the parent‐infant relationship, and child development. Integrated interventions that jointly address maternal substance use and child development have shown promise for enhancing child outcomes. No research to date has focused exclusively on the outcomes of young children or examined potential moderators of the effect sizes of integrated programs. This…
A comparative effectiveness study of the Breaking the Cycle and Maxxine Wright intervention programs for substance-involved mothers and their children
There is a pressing need to identify interventions that promote the mental health of infants and young children exposed to early adversity. Bringing together an inter-disciplinary research team and community partners, this study aligns with national strategies to establish strong evidence for infant mental health interventions that reduce child exposure to ACEs and support the mother-child relationship. This study was registered with clinicaltria…
Using a community of practice model to create change for Northern homeless women
This is a story about three virtual and face-to-face communities which met in the capitals of Canada’s three Northern territorial cities over a two-year period to discuss and act on culturally safe and gender-specific services for Northern women (and their children) experiencing homelessness, mental health and substance use concerns. It is a story of how researchers and community-based advocates can work across distance and culture, using co-lear…
Examining barriers to harm reduction and child welfare services for pregnant women and mothers who use substances using a stigma action framework
Pregnant women and mothers who use substances often face significant barriers to accessing and engaging with substance use services. A scoping review was conducted in 2019 to understand how stigma impacts access to, retention in and outcomes of harm reduction and child welfare services for pregnant women and mothers who use substances. The forty-two (n = 42) articles were analysed using the Action Framework for Building an Inclusive Health System…
Wraparound programmes for pregnant and parenting women with substance use concerns in Canada
Wraparound programmes, wherein multiple services are offered at one location, are effective in engaging pregnant or parenting women experiencing substance use and other complex challenges while also addressing gaps in services between the health, child welfare and addictions fields. Evaluations of these programmes have demonstrated positive outcomes; nevertheless, few studies have focused on how programmes' cross-sectoral partnerships are structu…
Improving Substance Use Treatment for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women
This article describes the work undertaken by participants in a virtual community, who came together online over a 15-month period to improve supports for First Nations, Métis and Inuit women with substance use problems at risk of having a child affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The project exemplifies a collaborative process, inclusive of people from various geographical locations, cultures and professional sectors, affording p…
Voices from the community
Since the 1990s, many communities in Canada have worked to develop specialized programs to meet the needs of pregnant and early parenting women who use alcohol and other substances. These programs provide a range of services under one roof (a “single-access” or “one-stop shop” model), address women’s needs from a holistic perspective, provide practical and emotional support, and strive to reduce barriers to accessing care and support. Over the ye…
Collaborative Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention
The association between fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), residential schools and subsequent assimilatory policies in Canada is of such significance that it was included in the groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Final Report through Call to Action #33, which focuses on collaboratively developing FASD prevention programs in Indigenous communities. A consensus statement with eight tenets for enacting Call to Action…
Multi-Service Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use Concerns
Within Canada, several specialized multi-service prevention programs work with highly vulnerable pregnant and early parenting women with substance use issues. Experiences of trauma, mental health, poverty, and other factors associated with the social determinants of health complete the picture. Program evaluations have demonstrated their value, but less has been said as to women's reasons for choosing to seek help from these programs, what they w…
The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies
Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading cause of disability, and a major public health concern in Canada. There are well-documented barriers for women and for service providers related to asking about alcohol use in pregnancy. Confidential research is important for learning about alcohol use before, during and after pregnancy, in order to inform fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) prevention strategies. The Research Advancement through Cohort C…
Traveling the Möbius Strip
Gender-transformative health promotion for women
Gender inequity is a pervasive global challenge to health equity. Health promotion, as a field, has paid only limited attention to gender inequity to date, but could be an active agent of change if gender equity became an explicit goal of health promotion research, policy and programmes. As an aspect of gendered health systems, health promotion interventions may maintain, exacerbate or reduce gender-related health inequities, depending upon the d…
Developing and Using a Common Framework to Evaluate Fasd Programs
Tobacco Cessation Interventions for Underserved Women
Despite high rates of smoking among some subgroups of women, there is a lack of tailored interventions to address smoking cessation among women. We identify components of a women-centered approach to tobacco cessation by analyzing 3 bodies of literature: sex and gender influences in tobacco use and addiction; evidence-based tobacco cessation guidelines; and best practices in delivery of women-centered care. Programming for underserved women shoul…
Toward an Evaluation Framework for Community-Based Fasd Prevention Programs
This article discusses creation of common evaluation frameworks for FASD-related programs. The project was guided by a social determinants of health perspective and included a literature search and consultations across Canada to help refine and confirm the final product. The end result was development of three visual maps: FASD prevention programs, FASD support programs, and FASD programs in Aboriginal communities. Each map comprises concentric r…
Cultural interventions to treat addictions in Indigenous populations
BACKGROUND: Cultural interventions offer the hope and promise of healing from addictions for Indigenous people.a However, there are few published studies specifically examining the type and impact of these interventions. Positioned within the Honouring Our Strengths: Culture as Intervention project, a scoping study was conducted to describe what is known about the characteristics of culture-based programs and to examine the outcomes collected and…
From fetal health to women’s health
Smoking during pregnancy has long been a preoccupation of public health, eclipsing and delaying attention to women’s smoking and women’s health. Despite decades of intense attention within tobacco control to smoking and pregnancy, there have been few effective interventions developed with women who are pregnant and smoke and persistently high rates of relapse postpartum. We argue that a history of fetus-centric, individually oriented, decontextua…
Tobacco and alcohol use in the context of adolescent pregnancy and postpartum
Adolescent girls are more likely than women of other ages to smoke tobacco or drink alcohol during pregnancy. The health impacts of smoking and drinking for girls and the interconnections between alcohol and tobacco use with adolescent pregnancy underscore the urgent need for integrated approaches to prevent and reduce alcohol and tobacco use among pregnant girls/young women. This article reports on the results of a scoping review of the literatu…
Alcohol Use During Pregnancy in Canada
Collaboration Between Addiction Treatment and Child Welfare Fields
The aim of this study was to explore factors that facilitate or impede collaboration in a Canadian context. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 24 managers and direct service staff from substance use treatment and the child welfare fields in different regions of a Canadian province. Findings underscore the importance of examining cross-system collaboration specific to regional policy contexts, such as British…
Igniting an Agenda for Health Promotion for Women
Good, bad, thwarted or addicted? Discourses of substance-using mothers
In this paper we examined discourses of mothers who use substances. Focus groups were conducted at two different treatment programmes with diverse women who identified as mothers challenged by substance use. Real scenarios were presented to the participants and feedback was sought about how the women within the scenarios managed their situations and the actions taken by legal, media, and health authorities. Through the use of three lenses - right…
Substance Use Among Women in Shelters for Abused Women and Children
Good, bad, thwarted or addicted? Discourses of substance-using mothers
In this paper we examined discourses of mothers who use substances. Focus groups were conducted at two different treatment programmes with diverse women who identified as mothers challenged by substance use. Real scenarios were presented to the participants and feedback was sought about how the women within the scenarios managed their situations and the actions taken by legal, media, and health authorities. Through the use of three lenses - right…
Alcohol Use During Pregnancy in Canada
Substance Use Among Women in Shelters for Abused Women and Children
Substance Use Among Women in Shelters for Abused Women and Children
Good, bad, thwarted or addicted? Discourses of substance-using mothers
In this paper we examined discourses of mothers who use substances. Focus groups were conducted at two different treatment programmes with diverse women who identified as mothers challenged by substance use. Real scenarios were presented to the participants and feedback was sought about how the women within the scenarios managed their situations and the actions taken by legal, media, and health authorities. Through the use of three lenses - right…
Igniting an Agenda for Health Promotion for Women
Collaboration Between Addiction Treatment and Child Welfare Fields
The aim of this study was to explore factors that facilitate or impede collaboration in a Canadian context. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 24 managers and direct service staff from substance use treatment and the child welfare fields in different regions of a Canadian province. Findings underscore the importance of examining cross-system collaboration specific to regional policy contexts, such as British…
Alcohol Use During Pregnancy in Canada
Cultural interventions to treat addictions in Indigenous populations
BACKGROUND: Cultural interventions offer the hope and promise of healing from addictions for Indigenous people.a However, there are few published studies specifically examining the type and impact of these interventions. Positioned within the Honouring Our Strengths: Culture as Intervention project, a scoping study was conducted to describe what is known about the characteristics of culture-based programs and to examine the outcomes collected and…
From fetal health to women’s health
Smoking during pregnancy has long been a preoccupation of public health, eclipsing and delaying attention to women’s smoking and women’s health. Despite decades of intense attention within tobacco control to smoking and pregnancy, there have been few effective interventions developed with women who are pregnant and smoke and persistently high rates of relapse postpartum. We argue that a history of fetus-centric, individually oriented, decontextua…
Tobacco and alcohol use in the context of adolescent pregnancy and postpartum
Adolescent girls are more likely than women of other ages to smoke tobacco or drink alcohol during pregnancy. The health impacts of smoking and drinking for girls and the interconnections between alcohol and tobacco use with adolescent pregnancy underscore the urgent need for integrated approaches to prevent and reduce alcohol and tobacco use among pregnant girls/young women. This article reports on the results of a scoping review of the literatu…
Gender-transformative health promotion for women
Gender inequity is a pervasive global challenge to health equity. Health promotion, as a field, has paid only limited attention to gender inequity to date, but could be an active agent of change if gender equity became an explicit goal of health promotion research, policy and programmes. As an aspect of gendered health systems, health promotion interventions may maintain, exacerbate or reduce gender-related health inequities, depending upon the d…
Developing and Using a Common Framework to Evaluate Fasd Programs
Tobacco Cessation Interventions for Underserved Women
Despite high rates of smoking among some subgroups of women, there is a lack of tailored interventions to address smoking cessation among women. We identify components of a women-centered approach to tobacco cessation by analyzing 3 bodies of literature: sex and gender influences in tobacco use and addiction; evidence-based tobacco cessation guidelines; and best practices in delivery of women-centered care. Programming for underserved women shoul…
Toward an Evaluation Framework for Community-Based Fasd Prevention Programs
This article discusses creation of common evaluation frameworks for FASD-related programs. The project was guided by a social determinants of health perspective and included a literature search and consultations across Canada to help refine and confirm the final product. The end result was development of three visual maps: FASD prevention programs, FASD support programs, and FASD programs in Aboriginal communities. Each map comprises concentric r…
Traveling the Möbius Strip
Collaborative Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention
The association between fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), residential schools and subsequent assimilatory policies in Canada is of such significance that it was included in the groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Final Report through Call to Action #33, which focuses on collaboratively developing FASD prevention programs in Indigenous communities. A consensus statement with eight tenets for enacting Call to Action…
Multi-Service Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use Concerns
Within Canada, several specialized multi-service prevention programs work with highly vulnerable pregnant and early parenting women with substance use issues. Experiences of trauma, mental health, poverty, and other factors associated with the social determinants of health complete the picture. Program evaluations have demonstrated their value, but less has been said as to women's reasons for choosing to seek help from these programs, what they w…
The Potential for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention of a Harmonized Approach to Data Collection about Alcohol Use in Pregnancy Cohort Studies
Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading cause of disability, and a major public health concern in Canada. There are well-documented barriers for women and for service providers related to asking about alcohol use in pregnancy. Confidential research is important for learning about alcohol use before, during and after pregnancy, in order to inform fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) prevention strategies. The Research Advancement through Cohort C…
Improving Substance Use Treatment for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Women
This article describes the work undertaken by participants in a virtual community, who came together online over a 15-month period to improve supports for First Nations, Métis and Inuit women with substance use problems at risk of having a child affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The project exemplifies a collaborative process, inclusive of people from various geographical locations, cultures and professional sectors, affording p…
Voices from the community
Since the 1990s, many communities in Canada have worked to develop specialized programs to meet the needs of pregnant and early parenting women who use alcohol and other substances. These programs provide a range of services under one roof (a “single-access” or “one-stop shop” model), address women’s needs from a holistic perspective, provide practical and emotional support, and strive to reduce barriers to accessing care and support. Over the ye…
Using a community of practice model to create change for Northern homeless women
This is a story about three virtual and face-to-face communities which met in the capitals of Canada’s three Northern territorial cities over a two-year period to discuss and act on culturally safe and gender-specific services for Northern women (and their children) experiencing homelessness, mental health and substance use concerns. It is a story of how researchers and community-based advocates can work across distance and culture, using co-lear…
Examining barriers to harm reduction and child welfare services for pregnant women and mothers who use substances using a stigma action framework
Pregnant women and mothers who use substances often face significant barriers to accessing and engaging with substance use services. A scoping review was conducted in 2019 to understand how stigma impacts access to, retention in and outcomes of harm reduction and child welfare services for pregnant women and mothers who use substances. The forty-two (n = 42) articles were analysed using the Action Framework for Building an Inclusive Health System…
Wraparound programmes for pregnant and parenting women with substance use concerns in Canada
Wraparound programmes, wherein multiple services are offered at one location, are effective in engaging pregnant or parenting women experiencing substance use and other complex challenges while also addressing gaps in services between the health, child welfare and addictions fields. Evaluations of these programmes have demonstrated positive outcomes; nevertheless, few studies have focused on how programmes' cross-sectoral partnerships are structu…
A comparative effectiveness study of the Breaking the Cycle and Maxxine Wright intervention programs for substance-involved mothers and their children
There is a pressing need to identify interventions that promote the mental health of infants and young children exposed to early adversity. Bringing together an inter-disciplinary research team and community partners, this study aligns with national strategies to establish strong evidence for infant mental health interventions that reduce child exposure to ACEs and support the mother-child relationship. This study was registered with clinicaltria…
Effects of integrated programs for substance‐involved mothers on infant and child development outcomes
Maternal substance use is a pressing public health issue that confers risk for maternal health, the parent‐infant relationship, and child development. Integrated interventions that jointly address maternal substance use and child development have shown promise for enhancing child outcomes. No research to date has focused exclusively on the outcomes of young children or examined potential moderators of the effect sizes of integrated programs. This…
Bridging the gaps for women in substance use treatment
This perspective provides an overview of a rapid review of research, and discussions held with Canadian treatment providers, that together illustrate how gaps persist in treatment and support for women with substance use concerns; and how attention to four elements of gender-specific treatment for women could ameliorate the situation
Medicine (18 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects (16 obras) · Nursing (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (10 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 obras) · Public health (9 obras) · Public relations (9 obras)