Devon Greyson
Biographic Data
| ID | 293131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devon Greyson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devon |
| FAMILY NAME | Greyson |
| SIGNATURE | GREYSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4860-384X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
New mothers’ key questions about child vaccinations from pregnancy through toddlerhood: Evidence from a qualitative longitudinal study in Victoria, British, Columbia
Canada's infant vaccination rate is suboptimal. British Columbia (BC) is below the targeted national coverage for infant vaccines, and vaccine hesitancy is a contributing factor in BC's low coverage rates. The literature suggests that many mothers are primary vaccine decision-makers and begin this decision process during pregnancy. This project examined mothers' vaccine concerns, vaccine information needs and preferences, and mother's trusted inf…
“If I'm a naturopath, It's because I trust nature above everything else”: Canadian naturopaths' construction of vaccination as a risk object
Canadians and Quebecers increasingly consult complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners in parallel with biomedical providers. The close relationship between vaccine hesitancy and CAM use remains under explored in Western countries. We present the results of a qualitative study conducted among one of Quebec's most used CAM approaches: naturopathy. Using Boholm and Corvellec's relational theory of risk to illustrate naturopaths' co…
How do mothers’ vaccine attitudes change over time
Although many interventions aim to reduce parents' hesitancy about childhood vaccinations, parents' experiences of vaccine attitude change trajectories remain underexplored. This constructivist grounded theory study examines trajectories of change in vaccine confidence and uptake among mothers in the Greater Vancouver region of Canada. Specifically, we explored what mothers identified as causes and facilitators to these changes, the processes inv…
Is the pre-natal period a missed opportunity for communicating with parents about immunizations? Evidence from a longitudinal qualitative study in Victoria, British Columbia
The prenatal period is an important time to begin conversations with expectant parents about vaccinating their infants, particularly if these conversations are initiated by trusted maternity care providers. More information is needed on how maternity care providers can be better supported to have these conversations with their patients
You still have that fear”: Policy constraints on informed decision making about legalized cannabis use during pregnancy and lactation
Decision makers in public and institutional policy should work to clarify and update policies regarding substance use during pregnancy following legalization of a new substance, and ensure that pregnant and lactating people are afforded the same legal protections as the general population
Stigma and blame related to Covid-19 pandemic: A case-study of editorial cartoons in Canada
We need to protect each other: Covid-19 vaccination intentions and concerns among Racialized minority and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Understanding Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy in Canada: Attitudes, Norms, Intentions, and Vaccine Uptake
To improve uptake of influenza vaccine in pregnancy, it is important to understand the factors that predict prenatal vaccination. The aim of this study was to test the capability of the theory of planned behavior, augmented with information constructs, to predict and explain influenza vaccination uptake in a sample of 600 pregnant individuals in Canada. A baseline survey at the start of influenza season assessed beliefs, norms, perceived control,…
Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities
Sympathy sockpuppets are false online identities used for purposes of extracting care work from others. While online community infiltration for nefarious purposes is a well-documented phenomenon, people may also join online communities using deceptive personas (“sockpuppet” accounts) for non-nefarious reasons, such as to gain sympathy or cultivate a sense of belonging in a group. In comparison with scamming and trolling, this more subtle form of …
Variation in the prescription drugs covered by health systems across high-income countries: A review of and recommendations for the academic literature
BACKGROUND: Because not all medicines are equally safe, effective, and affordable, health systems often use formularies to define explicitly which medicines will be included and excluded from coverage. OBJECTIVE: We sought to synthesize methods and findings from published studies of formulary variation across health systems in high-income countries. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed research papers published from 2000 to …
Ethics, effectiveness and population health information interventions: A Canadian analysis
Population health information interventions (PHIIs) use information in efforts to promote health. PHIIs may push information to a target audience (communication), pull information from the public (surveillance), or combine both in a bidirectional intervention. Although PHIIs have often been framed as non-invasive and ethically innocuous, in reality they may be intrusive into people’s lives, affecting not only their health but their senses of secu…
The Activated Patient Paradox
Systematic review searches must be systematic, comprehensive, and transparent: A critique of Perman et al
A high quality systematic review search has three core attributes; it is systematic, comprehensive, and transparent. The current over-emphasis on the primacy of systematic reviews over other forms of literature review in health research, however, runs the risk of encouraging publication of reviews whose searches do not meet these three criteria under the guise of being systematic reviews. This correspondence comes in response to Perman S, Turner …
Young parents’ experiences and perceptions of ‘Teen Mom’ reality shows
MTV’s hit reality shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom were produced with an agenda of preventing teen pregnancy. Researchers have examined their effectiveness as behavioral interventions, yet little attention has been paid to experiences of young parents themselves with these shows, nor to their ethical consequences, including the potential for compounding of stigma against young parents. This analysis qualitatively examines the experiences of you…
A narrative analysis of the birth stories of early-age mothers
The telling of birth stories (i.e. stories that describe women's experiences of giving birth) is a common and important social practice. Whereas most research on birth narratives reflects the stories of middle-class, 'adult' women, we examine how the birth stories told by early-age mothers interconnect with broader narratives regarding social stigma and childbearing at 'too early' an age. Drawing on narrative theory, we analyse in-depth interview…
A critical examination of representations of context within research on population health interventions
A critical examination of representations of context within research on population health interventions
Sex, drugs and gender roles: Mapping the use of sex and gender based analysis in pharmaceutical policy research
Despite pharmaceutical policy's long entwinement with issues of sex and gender, and the emergence of international guidelines for the inclusion of SGBA in health research, the community of pharmaceutical policy researchers has not internalized, or "mainstreamed," the practice. Increased application of SGBA is, in most cases, not only appropriate for the topics under investigation, but well within the reach of today's pharmaceutical policy researc…
Stigma and blame related to Covid-19 pandemic: A case-study of editorial cartoons in Canada
A narrative analysis of the birth stories of early-age mothers
The telling of birth stories (i.e. stories that describe women's experiences of giving birth) is a common and important social practice. Whereas most research on birth narratives reflects the stories of middle-class, 'adult' women, we examine how the birth stories told by early-age mothers interconnect with broader narratives regarding social stigma and childbearing at 'too early' an age. Drawing on narrative theory, we analyse in-depth interview…
We need to protect each other: Covid-19 vaccination intentions and concerns among Racialized minority and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities
Sympathy sockpuppets are false online identities used for purposes of extracting care work from others. While online community infiltration for nefarious purposes is a well-documented phenomenon, people may also join online communities using deceptive personas (“sockpuppet” accounts) for non-nefarious reasons, such as to gain sympathy or cultivate a sense of belonging in a group. In comparison with scamming and trolling, this more subtle form of …
Young parents’ experiences and perceptions of ‘Teen Mom’ reality shows
MTV’s hit reality shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom were produced with an agenda of preventing teen pregnancy. Researchers have examined their effectiveness as behavioral interventions, yet little attention has been paid to experiences of young parents themselves with these shows, nor to their ethical consequences, including the potential for compounding of stigma against young parents. This analysis qualitatively examines the experiences of you…
Sex, drugs and gender roles: Mapping the use of sex and gender based analysis in pharmaceutical policy research
Despite pharmaceutical policy's long entwinement with issues of sex and gender, and the emergence of international guidelines for the inclusion of SGBA in health research, the community of pharmaceutical policy researchers has not internalized, or "mainstreamed," the practice. Increased application of SGBA is, in most cases, not only appropriate for the topics under investigation, but well within the reach of today's pharmaceutical policy researc…
A critical examination of representations of context within research on population health interventions
A critical examination of representations of context within research on population health interventions
A narrative analysis of the birth stories of early-age mothers
The telling of birth stories (i.e. stories that describe women's experiences of giving birth) is a common and important social practice. Whereas most research on birth narratives reflects the stories of middle-class, 'adult' women, we examine how the birth stories told by early-age mothers interconnect with broader narratives regarding social stigma and childbearing at 'too early' an age. Drawing on narrative theory, we analyse in-depth interview…
Ethics, effectiveness and population health information interventions: A Canadian analysis
Population health information interventions (PHIIs) use information in efforts to promote health. PHIIs may push information to a target audience (communication), pull information from the public (surveillance), or combine both in a bidirectional intervention. Although PHIIs have often been framed as non-invasive and ethically innocuous, in reality they may be intrusive into people’s lives, affecting not only their health but their senses of secu…
The Activated Patient Paradox
Systematic review searches must be systematic, comprehensive, and transparent: A critique of Perman et al
A high quality systematic review search has three core attributes; it is systematic, comprehensive, and transparent. The current over-emphasis on the primacy of systematic reviews over other forms of literature review in health research, however, runs the risk of encouraging publication of reviews whose searches do not meet these three criteria under the guise of being systematic reviews. This correspondence comes in response to Perman S, Turner …
Young parents’ experiences and perceptions of ‘Teen Mom’ reality shows
MTV’s hit reality shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom were produced with an agenda of preventing teen pregnancy. Researchers have examined their effectiveness as behavioral interventions, yet little attention has been paid to experiences of young parents themselves with these shows, nor to their ethical consequences, including the potential for compounding of stigma against young parents. This analysis qualitatively examines the experiences of you…
Variation in the prescription drugs covered by health systems across high-income countries: A review of and recommendations for the academic literature
BACKGROUND: Because not all medicines are equally safe, effective, and affordable, health systems often use formularies to define explicitly which medicines will be included and excluded from coverage. OBJECTIVE: We sought to synthesize methods and findings from published studies of formulary variation across health systems in high-income countries. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed research papers published from 2000 to …
Understanding Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy in Canada: Attitudes, Norms, Intentions, and Vaccine Uptake
To improve uptake of influenza vaccine in pregnancy, it is important to understand the factors that predict prenatal vaccination. The aim of this study was to test the capability of the theory of planned behavior, augmented with information constructs, to predict and explain influenza vaccination uptake in a sample of 600 pregnant individuals in Canada. A baseline survey at the start of influenza season assessed beliefs, norms, perceived control,…
Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities
Sympathy sockpuppets are false online identities used for purposes of extracting care work from others. While online community infiltration for nefarious purposes is a well-documented phenomenon, people may also join online communities using deceptive personas (“sockpuppet” accounts) for non-nefarious reasons, such as to gain sympathy or cultivate a sense of belonging in a group. In comparison with scamming and trolling, this more subtle form of …
How do mothers’ vaccine attitudes change over time
Although many interventions aim to reduce parents' hesitancy about childhood vaccinations, parents' experiences of vaccine attitude change trajectories remain underexplored. This constructivist grounded theory study examines trajectories of change in vaccine confidence and uptake among mothers in the Greater Vancouver region of Canada. Specifically, we explored what mothers identified as causes and facilitators to these changes, the processes inv…
Is the pre-natal period a missed opportunity for communicating with parents about immunizations? Evidence from a longitudinal qualitative study in Victoria, British Columbia
The prenatal period is an important time to begin conversations with expectant parents about vaccinating their infants, particularly if these conversations are initiated by trusted maternity care providers. More information is needed on how maternity care providers can be better supported to have these conversations with their patients
You still have that fear”: Policy constraints on informed decision making about legalized cannabis use during pregnancy and lactation
Decision makers in public and institutional policy should work to clarify and update policies regarding substance use during pregnancy following legalization of a new substance, and ensure that pregnant and lactating people are afforded the same legal protections as the general population
Stigma and blame related to Covid-19 pandemic: A case-study of editorial cartoons in Canada
We need to protect each other: Covid-19 vaccination intentions and concerns among Racialized minority and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
New mothers’ key questions about child vaccinations from pregnancy through toddlerhood: Evidence from a qualitative longitudinal study in Victoria, British, Columbia
Canada's infant vaccination rate is suboptimal. British Columbia (BC) is below the targeted national coverage for infant vaccines, and vaccine hesitancy is a contributing factor in BC's low coverage rates. The literature suggests that many mothers are primary vaccine decision-makers and begin this decision process during pregnancy. This project examined mothers' vaccine concerns, vaccine information needs and preferences, and mother's trusted inf…
“If I'm a naturopath, It's because I trust nature above everything else”: Canadian naturopaths' construction of vaccination as a risk object
Canadians and Quebecers increasingly consult complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners in parallel with biomedical providers. The close relationship between vaccine hesitancy and CAM use remains under explored in Western countries. We present the results of a qualitative study conducted among one of Quebec's most used CAM approaches: naturopathy. Using Boholm and Corvellec's relational theory of risk to illustrate naturopaths' co…
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