Wendy Sword
Biographic Data
| ID | 247978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Sword |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sword |
| SIGNATURE | SWORD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0378-2266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding the Blogging Practices of Women Undergoing In Vitro Fertilization (IVF): A Discourse Analysis of Women’s IVF Blogs
Infertility and its associated treatments, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), can have a profound impact on the emotional health and well-being of women desiring to become mothers. Researchers have measured the impact of infertility and described the experience of infertility and its treatment, leaving the rich descriptions of the IVF experience as captured in women’s blogs to be explored. This discourse analysis describes the blogging pract…
The impact of drop-in centres on the health of street boys in New Delhi: An interpretive descriptive study
Knowledge Translation for Service Providers with Addiction or Recovery Experience: A Delphi Method
Factors related to implementation of evidence-based practices in the treatment of addiction include the personal history of addiction and recovery of service providers working in those treatment services. The purpose of this Delphi study was to outline knowledge translation (KT) activities that are specific to the needs of service providers who are themselves in recovery from addiction. Twelve administrators of addiction agencies serving women in…
Why Are Half of Women Interested in Participating in Group Prenatal Care
Predictors of Research Use Among Staff in Aboriginal Addiction Treatment Programs Serving Women
The objective of this study was to identify the predictors of research use among staff from Aboriginal addiction programs serving women. A total of 89 staff from 26 Aboriginal addiction programs completed an online survey that included items assessing the theory of planned behavior constructs (attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control), intent to use research, and research use. Consistent with the theory of planned behavior, resea…
Partnerships Among Canadian Agencies Serving Women with Substance Abuse Issues and Their Children
Women with substance use issues and their children have unique needs that are best met through collaborative and coordinated service delivery offered by a variety of agencies. However, in Canada and elsewhere, services tend to be fragmented and fail to address children's needs. This study aimed to describe the partnership patterns, activities, and qualities among Canadian agencies serving women with addictions and to determine predictors of partn…
Influence of Maternal Birthplace on Postpartum Health and Health Services Use
Perinatal Loss and Parental Grief: The Challenge of Ambiguity and Disenfranchised Grief
Following perinatal loss, a type of ambiguous loss, bereaved couples struggle with and experience distress due to various forms of ambiguity. Moreover, the juxtaposition of their grief with society's minimization often disenfranchises them from traditional grieving processes. The purpose of this study was to explore sources of ambiguity and disenfranchised grief related to perinatal loss. Audio-taped interviews with 13 bereaved couples at 2, 6, a…
A National Survey of Services for Women with Substance Use Issues and Their Children in Canada: Challenges for Knowledge Translation
The Experiences of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Postpartum Women in the First 4 Weeks at Home
We used a qualitative descriptive approach to explore and describe the situated experiences of socioeconomically disadvantaged (SED) postpartum women in the first 4 weeks after hospital discharge. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data from in-depth interviews with 24 SED postpartum women. Two intertwining, overarching themes emerged: (a) the ongoing burden of their day-to-day lives, with subthemes of poverty and material depri…
Women's Care-Seeking Experiences After Referral for Postpartum Depression
This qualitative descriptive study explored women's care-seeking experiences after referral for postpartum depression. Interviews with 18 participants revealed individual-, social network-, and health system-related factors that hindered and facilitated care seeking. Women's normalizing of symptoms, limited understanding of postpartum depression, waiting for symptom improvement, discomfort discussing mental health concerns, and fears deterred car…
Adolescents' Perceptions of Inpatient Postpartum Nursing Care
The authors used a transcendental phenomenological approach to describe adolescent mothers' satisfactory and unsatisfactory inpatient postpartum nursing care experiences. They analyzed data from 14 in-depth interviews and found that adolescent mothers' satisfaction is dependent on their perceptions of the nurse's ability to place them "at ease." Nursing care qualities that contributed to satisfactory experiences included nurses' sharing informati…
Predictors of Acceptance of a Postpartum Public Health Nurse Home Visit: Findings from an Ontario Survey
"New Choices" for women with addictions: Perceptions of program participants
Interview findings endorse the appropriateness and potential efficacy of a collaborative, centralized approach to service provision for women with substance use issues. Although the findings provide insight into an alternative model of service delivery for women with addictions, future research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. Research also is needed to determine which program components or constellation of components …
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income: A Matter of "Taking Care of Self"
The grounded theory study discussed in this article provides a theoretical explanation of prenatal care use among women of low income. The author recruited 26 women from two communities in Ontario, Canada, to participate in an individual or focus group interview and analyzed data using descriptive coding, interpretive coding, and constant comparison. Perceptions of the health care system were identified as important influences on usage behavior. …
Understanding Newborn Infant Readmission: Findings of the Ontario Mother and Infant Survey
Breastfeeding Outcomes of Women Following Uncomplicated Birth in Hamilton-Wentworth
Accounting for Presence of Self: Reflections on Doing Qualitative Research
In a qualitative study, the researcher's curiosity, relationships with participants, and conceptual lenses through which data are gathered and interpreted have significant bearing on the research. This reflective account of the author's experiences conducting a study of prenatal care use among low-income women reveals the necessarily personal nature of her work. She address some of her motives for carrying out the study, feelings that arose durin…
Accounting for Presence of Self: Reflections on Doing Qualitative Research
In a qualitative study, the researcher's curiosity, relationships with participants, and conceptual lenses through which data are gathered and interpreted have significant bearing on the research. This reflective account of the author's experiences conducting a study of prenatal care use among low-income women reveals the necessarily personal nature of her work. She address some of her motives for carrying out the study, feelings that arose durin…
Women's Care-Seeking Experiences After Referral for Postpartum Depression
This qualitative descriptive study explored women's care-seeking experiences after referral for postpartum depression. Interviews with 18 participants revealed individual-, social network-, and health system-related factors that hindered and facilitated care seeking. Women's normalizing of symptoms, limited understanding of postpartum depression, waiting for symptom improvement, discomfort discussing mental health concerns, and fears deterred car…
Adolescents' Perceptions of Inpatient Postpartum Nursing Care
The authors used a transcendental phenomenological approach to describe adolescent mothers' satisfactory and unsatisfactory inpatient postpartum nursing care experiences. They analyzed data from 14 in-depth interviews and found that adolescent mothers' satisfaction is dependent on their perceptions of the nurse's ability to place them "at ease." Nursing care qualities that contributed to satisfactory experiences included nurses' sharing informati…
Predictors of Acceptance of a Postpartum Public Health Nurse Home Visit: Findings from an Ontario Survey
Understanding Newborn Infant Readmission: Findings of the Ontario Mother and Infant Survey
Understanding the Blogging Practices of Women Undergoing In Vitro Fertilization (IVF): A Discourse Analysis of Women’s IVF Blogs
Infertility and its associated treatments, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), can have a profound impact on the emotional health and well-being of women desiring to become mothers. Researchers have measured the impact of infertility and described the experience of infertility and its treatment, leaving the rich descriptions of the IVF experience as captured in women’s blogs to be explored. This discourse analysis describes the blogging pract…
Breastfeeding Outcomes of Women Following Uncomplicated Birth in Hamilton-Wentworth
Breastfeeding Outcomes of Women Following Uncomplicated Birth in Hamilton-Wentworth
Accounting for Presence of Self: Reflections on Doing Qualitative Research
In a qualitative study, the researcher's curiosity, relationships with participants, and conceptual lenses through which data are gathered and interpreted have significant bearing on the research. This reflective account of the author's experiences conducting a study of prenatal care use among low-income women reveals the necessarily personal nature of her work. She address some of her motives for carrying out the study, feelings that arose durin…
Understanding Newborn Infant Readmission: Findings of the Ontario Mother and Infant Survey
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income: A Matter of "Taking Care of Self"
The grounded theory study discussed in this article provides a theoretical explanation of prenatal care use among women of low income. The author recruited 26 women from two communities in Ontario, Canada, to participate in an individual or focus group interview and analyzed data using descriptive coding, interpretive coding, and constant comparison. Perceptions of the health care system were identified as important influences on usage behavior. …
"New Choices" for women with addictions: Perceptions of program participants
Interview findings endorse the appropriateness and potential efficacy of a collaborative, centralized approach to service provision for women with substance use issues. Although the findings provide insight into an alternative model of service delivery for women with addictions, future research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention. Research also is needed to determine which program components or constellation of components …
Predictors of Acceptance of a Postpartum Public Health Nurse Home Visit: Findings from an Ontario Survey
Adolescents' Perceptions of Inpatient Postpartum Nursing Care
The authors used a transcendental phenomenological approach to describe adolescent mothers' satisfactory and unsatisfactory inpatient postpartum nursing care experiences. They analyzed data from 14 in-depth interviews and found that adolescent mothers' satisfaction is dependent on their perceptions of the nurse's ability to place them "at ease." Nursing care qualities that contributed to satisfactory experiences included nurses' sharing informati…
Women's Care-Seeking Experiences After Referral for Postpartum Depression
This qualitative descriptive study explored women's care-seeking experiences after referral for postpartum depression. Interviews with 18 participants revealed individual-, social network-, and health system-related factors that hindered and facilitated care seeking. Women's normalizing of symptoms, limited understanding of postpartum depression, waiting for symptom improvement, discomfort discussing mental health concerns, and fears deterred car…
The Experiences of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Postpartum Women in the First 4 Weeks at Home
We used a qualitative descriptive approach to explore and describe the situated experiences of socioeconomically disadvantaged (SED) postpartum women in the first 4 weeks after hospital discharge. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data from in-depth interviews with 24 SED postpartum women. Two intertwining, overarching themes emerged: (a) the ongoing burden of their day-to-day lives, with subthemes of poverty and material depri…
A National Survey of Services for Women with Substance Use Issues and Their Children in Canada: Challenges for Knowledge Translation
Influence of Maternal Birthplace on Postpartum Health and Health Services Use
Perinatal Loss and Parental Grief: The Challenge of Ambiguity and Disenfranchised Grief
Following perinatal loss, a type of ambiguous loss, bereaved couples struggle with and experience distress due to various forms of ambiguity. Moreover, the juxtaposition of their grief with society's minimization often disenfranchises them from traditional grieving processes. The purpose of this study was to explore sources of ambiguity and disenfranchised grief related to perinatal loss. Audio-taped interviews with 13 bereaved couples at 2, 6, a…
Partnerships Among Canadian Agencies Serving Women with Substance Abuse Issues and Their Children
Women with substance use issues and their children have unique needs that are best met through collaborative and coordinated service delivery offered by a variety of agencies. However, in Canada and elsewhere, services tend to be fragmented and fail to address children's needs. This study aimed to describe the partnership patterns, activities, and qualities among Canadian agencies serving women with addictions and to determine predictors of partn…
Predictors of Research Use Among Staff in Aboriginal Addiction Treatment Programs Serving Women
The objective of this study was to identify the predictors of research use among staff from Aboriginal addiction programs serving women. A total of 89 staff from 26 Aboriginal addiction programs completed an online survey that included items assessing the theory of planned behavior constructs (attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control), intent to use research, and research use. Consistent with the theory of planned behavior, resea…
Knowledge Translation for Service Providers with Addiction or Recovery Experience: A Delphi Method
Factors related to implementation of evidence-based practices in the treatment of addiction include the personal history of addiction and recovery of service providers working in those treatment services. The purpose of this Delphi study was to outline knowledge translation (KT) activities that are specific to the needs of service providers who are themselves in recovery from addiction. Twelve administrators of addiction agencies serving women in…
Why Are Half of Women Interested in Participating in Group Prenatal Care
The impact of drop-in centres on the health of street boys in New Delhi: An interpretive descriptive study
Understanding the Blogging Practices of Women Undergoing In Vitro Fertilization (IVF): A Discourse Analysis of Women’s IVF Blogs
Infertility and its associated treatments, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), can have a profound impact on the emotional health and well-being of women desiring to become mothers. Researchers have measured the impact of infertility and described the experience of infertility and its treatment, leaving the rich descriptions of the IVF experience as captured in women’s blogs to be explored. This discourse analysis describes the blogging pract…
Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (8 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Family medicine (5 works)