Kevin Brazil
Biographic Data
| ID | 3926756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Brazil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Brazil |
| SIGNATURE | BRAZIL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7669-4991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Patient and public involvement in international research
BACKGROUND: Patient and public involvement (PPI) is a critical priority in research, policy, academia and advocacy organizations. PPI in dementia research is gaining momentum. However, these efforts are missing in international projects aimed at those living with advanced dementia in long-term care (LTC) homes. Additional complexities can arise in enacting PPI within the context of integration of a palliative approach to care and experiences arou…
Co-Design of an eHealth Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Male Taxi Drivers
Taxi driving, a male-dominated occupation, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The increased risk is linked to a high prevalence of modifiable CVD risk factors including overweight/obesity, poor nutrition, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and physical inactivity. Behaviour change interventions may prove advantageous, yet little research has been conducted to reduce CVD risk in this population. The purpose o…
A Qualitative Study on Nudging and Palliative Care
The debate about the ethical decision-making process in the healthcare context has been enriched with a theory called "nudging", which has been defined as the framing of information that can significantly influence behaviour without restricting choice. The literature shows very limited data on the opinion and experience of palliative care healthcare professionals on the use of nudging techniques in their care setting. The aim of this study is to …
W. G. Sebald’s revisions of Roland Barthes
W. G. Sebald’s work has frequently been compared to that of Roland Barthes; James Wood is typical in speculating that Austerlitz is ‘in deep dialogue’ with Camera Lucida. Evidence from Sebald’s archive both supports and complicates such claims. Sebald first read Barthes in the early 1990s, engaging with him in his art criticism, yet Sebald’s compositional practice in The Emigrants, which involved erasing an image’s indexical relationship to its r…
Living with Life-Limiting Illness
Lung cancer is common in males as well as females and is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To gain an in-depth understanding of the ‘pedagogy of suffering’ (Frank, 1995, p. 145), the lived experiences of twelve adult patients in Northern Ireland diagnosed with advanced lung cancer were captured during two qualitative interviews with each patient (one month apart), which were audio recorded. This article outlines an…
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyond. The death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges th…
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
‘Talk to me’
BACKGROUND: Despite the recognized importance of end-of-life (EOL) communication between patients and physicians, the extent and quality of such communication is lacking. OBJECTIVE: We sought to understand patient perspectives on physician behaviours during EOL communication. DESIGN: In this mixed methods study, we conducted quantitative and qualitative strands and then merged data sets during a mixed methods analysis phase. In the quantitative s…
Predictors of caregiver burden across the home-based palliative care trajectory in Ontario, Canada
Family caregivers of patients enrolled in home-based palliative care programmes provide unpaid care and assistance with daily activities to terminally ill family members. Caregivers often experience caregiver burden, which is an important predictor of anxiety and depression that can extend into bereavement. We conducted a longitudinal, prospective cohort study to comprehensively assess modifiable and non-modifiable patient and caregiver factors t…
The Psychological and Health Consequences of Caring for a Spouse With Dementia
Caring for someone with dementia can be demanding, particularly for spouses living with the care recipient. The main goal of this study was to clarify differences in the experience of caregivers who were husbands and wives with respect to burden, health, healthy behaviors, presence of difficult care recipient behaviors, social supports, and the quality of the premorbid relationship. The results of this study support research demonstrating a diffe…
Dimensionality, Reliability and Validity of the InterRAI Depression Rating Scale in a Canadian Palliative Care Population
Training and Sustaining
Volunteer provision of spiritual care in an Ontario, Canada, long-term care home was the focus of a case study regarding resident spiritual care needs in a municipal environment that does not fund professional chaplains. Scope of practice issues, spiritual care skills in long-term care, and diversity sensitivity were identified as key areas for volunteer education. Volunteer training modules were designed using Theological Reflection as the theor…
A Comparison of Self-report and Health Care Provider Data to Assess Surveillance Definitions of Influenza-like Illness in Outpatients
Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit
This study, from the perspective of family caregivers, demonstrates that the CCB is not living up to its full potential in sustaining informal P/EOL caregivers. Effort is required to transform the CCB so that it may fulfill the potential it holds for serving as one public health response to caregiver burden that forms part of a healthy public policy that addresses the determinants of this burden
Social determinants of older adults’ awareness of community support services in Hamilton, Ontario
Community support services (CSSs) have been developed in Canada and other Western nations to enable persons coping with health or social issues to continue to live in the community. This study addresses the extent to which awareness of CSSs is structured by the social determinants of health. In a telephone interview conducted in February-March 2006, 1152 community-dwelling older adults (response rate 12.4%) from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada were mad…
Family caregivers’ ideal expectations of Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit
We present the findings of 57 interviews conducted in 2007-2008 with Canadians who have cared for a dying family member to examine their ideal expectations of the Compassionate Care Benefit (CCB) - a social programme providing job security and income support for workers caring for a dying person. Our aims are to (1) appreciate how intended users and other family caregivers view the programme's very nature; (2) identify programme challenges and im…
The influence of culture on home-based family caregiving at end-of-life
A system lifeworld perspective on dying in long term care settings for older people
Moral distress experienced by health care professionals who provide home-based palliative care
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
Les Canadiens vivent plus longtemps et les personnes plus âgées composent une part croissante de la population (14% en 2006, projeté d’atteindre 20% d’ici 2021). L’Étude longitudinale canadienne sur le vieillissement (ÉLCV) est une étude longitudinale nationale portant sur le développement adulte et le vieillissement qui recrutera 50 000 Canadien(ne)s âgé(e)s de 45 à 85 ans et qui les suivra pendant au moins 20 ans. Tous les participants fourniro…
Providing supportive care to cancer patients
Our results point to the importance of developing a better understanding on the types of relationships that exist among service programs if effective integrated models of care are to be developed
Gender differences among Canadian spousal caregivers at the end of life
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in spousal caregiving at the end of life. The primary research question was to determine gender differences in caregiver strain among spousal caregivers. Secondary research questions investigated included (i) the presence of gender differences among spousal caregivers in the duration of care provided; (ii) gender differences among spousal caregivers in formal service use and unmet servic…
Revisiting the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate
Risk Factors for Falls and Injuries in a Long-Term Care Facility in Ontario
Health Care Needs of Communitydwelling Older Adults
The influence of culture on home-based family caregiving at end-of-life
Moral distress experienced by health care professionals who provide home-based palliative care
A system lifeworld perspective on dying in long term care settings for older people
Gender differences among Canadian spousal caregivers at the end of life
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in spousal caregiving at the end of life. The primary research question was to determine gender differences in caregiver strain among spousal caregivers. Secondary research questions investigated included (i) the presence of gender differences among spousal caregivers in the duration of care provided; (ii) gender differences among spousal caregivers in formal service use and unmet servic…
Living with Life-Limiting Illness
Lung cancer is common in males as well as females and is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To gain an in-depth understanding of the ‘pedagogy of suffering’ (Frank, 1995, p. 145), the lived experiences of twelve adult patients in Northern Ireland diagnosed with advanced lung cancer were captured during two qualitative interviews with each patient (one month apart), which were audio recorded. This article outlines an…
Predictors of caregiver burden across the home-based palliative care trajectory in Ontario, Canada
Family caregivers of patients enrolled in home-based palliative care programmes provide unpaid care and assistance with daily activities to terminally ill family members. Caregivers often experience caregiver burden, which is an important predictor of anxiety and depression that can extend into bereavement. We conducted a longitudinal, prospective cohort study to comprehensively assess modifiable and non-modifiable patient and caregiver factors t…
Quality and Evaluation in a Comprehensive Health Organization
An innovative approach to delivering health care is being developed in several Ontario communities. The Ontario Ministry of Health has been guiding and assisting a number of communities as they pursue development of the comprehensive health organization concept (CHO). The CHO initiative has been evolving over the past five to six years and is driven primarily by enthusiasm and work at the grassroots community level. This short report describes th…
Health Care Needs of Communitydwelling Older Adults
Risk Factors for Falls and Injuries in a Long-Term Care Facility in Ontario
Revisiting the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate
Providing supportive care to cancer patients
Our results point to the importance of developing a better understanding on the types of relationships that exist among service programs if effective integrated models of care are to be developed
Gender differences among Canadian spousal caregivers at the end of life
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in spousal caregiving at the end of life. The primary research question was to determine gender differences in caregiver strain among spousal caregivers. Secondary research questions investigated included (i) the presence of gender differences among spousal caregivers in the duration of care provided; (ii) gender differences among spousal caregivers in formal service use and unmet servic…
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
Les Canadiens vivent plus longtemps et les personnes plus âgées composent une part croissante de la population (14% en 2006, projeté d’atteindre 20% d’ici 2021). L’Étude longitudinale canadienne sur le vieillissement (ÉLCV) est une étude longitudinale nationale portant sur le développement adulte et le vieillissement qui recrutera 50 000 Canadien(ne)s âgé(e)s de 45 à 85 ans et qui les suivra pendant au moins 20 ans. Tous les participants fourniro…
A system lifeworld perspective on dying in long term care settings for older people
Moral distress experienced by health care professionals who provide home-based palliative care
Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit
This study, from the perspective of family caregivers, demonstrates that the CCB is not living up to its full potential in sustaining informal P/EOL caregivers. Effort is required to transform the CCB so that it may fulfill the potential it holds for serving as one public health response to caregiver burden that forms part of a healthy public policy that addresses the determinants of this burden
Social determinants of older adults’ awareness of community support services in Hamilton, Ontario
Community support services (CSSs) have been developed in Canada and other Western nations to enable persons coping with health or social issues to continue to live in the community. This study addresses the extent to which awareness of CSSs is structured by the social determinants of health. In a telephone interview conducted in February-March 2006, 1152 community-dwelling older adults (response rate 12.4%) from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada were mad…
Family caregivers’ ideal expectations of Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit
We present the findings of 57 interviews conducted in 2007-2008 with Canadians who have cared for a dying family member to examine their ideal expectations of the Compassionate Care Benefit (CCB) - a social programme providing job security and income support for workers caring for a dying person. Our aims are to (1) appreciate how intended users and other family caregivers view the programme's very nature; (2) identify programme challenges and im…
The influence of culture on home-based family caregiving at end-of-life
A Comparison of Self-report and Health Care Provider Data to Assess Surveillance Definitions of Influenza-like Illness in Outpatients
Training and Sustaining
Volunteer provision of spiritual care in an Ontario, Canada, long-term care home was the focus of a case study regarding resident spiritual care needs in a municipal environment that does not fund professional chaplains. Scope of practice issues, spiritual care skills in long-term care, and diversity sensitivity were identified as key areas for volunteer education. Volunteer training modules were designed using Theological Reflection as the theor…
The Psychological and Health Consequences of Caring for a Spouse With Dementia
Caring for someone with dementia can be demanding, particularly for spouses living with the care recipient. The main goal of this study was to clarify differences in the experience of caregivers who were husbands and wives with respect to burden, health, healthy behaviors, presence of difficult care recipient behaviors, social supports, and the quality of the premorbid relationship. The results of this study support research demonstrating a diffe…
Dimensionality, Reliability and Validity of the InterRAI Depression Rating Scale in a Canadian Palliative Care Population
Predictors of caregiver burden across the home-based palliative care trajectory in Ontario, Canada
Family caregivers of patients enrolled in home-based palliative care programmes provide unpaid care and assistance with daily activities to terminally ill family members. Caregivers often experience caregiver burden, which is an important predictor of anxiety and depression that can extend into bereavement. We conducted a longitudinal, prospective cohort study to comprehensively assess modifiable and non-modifiable patient and caregiver factors t…
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical change in her own lifetime and beyond. The death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges th…
Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
‘Talk to me’
BACKGROUND: Despite the recognized importance of end-of-life (EOL) communication between patients and physicians, the extent and quality of such communication is lacking. OBJECTIVE: We sought to understand patient perspectives on physician behaviours during EOL communication. DESIGN: In this mixed methods study, we conducted quantitative and qualitative strands and then merged data sets during a mixed methods analysis phase. In the quantitative s…
Living with Life-Limiting Illness
Lung cancer is common in males as well as females and is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To gain an in-depth understanding of the ‘pedagogy of suffering’ (Frank, 1995, p. 145), the lived experiences of twelve adult patients in Northern Ireland diagnosed with advanced lung cancer were captured during two qualitative interviews with each patient (one month apart), which were audio recorded. This article outlines an…
W. G. Sebald’s revisions of Roland Barthes
W. G. Sebald’s work has frequently been compared to that of Roland Barthes; James Wood is typical in speculating that Austerlitz is ‘in deep dialogue’ with Camera Lucida. Evidence from Sebald’s archive both supports and complicates such claims. Sebald first read Barthes in the early 1990s, engaging with him in his art criticism, yet Sebald’s compositional practice in The Emigrants, which involved erasing an image’s indexical relationship to its r…
A Qualitative Study on Nudging and Palliative Care
The debate about the ethical decision-making process in the healthcare context has been enriched with a theory called "nudging", which has been defined as the framing of information that can significantly influence behaviour without restricting choice. The literature shows very limited data on the opinion and experience of palliative care healthcare professionals on the use of nudging techniques in their care setting. The aim of this study is to …
Co-Design of an eHealth Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Male Taxi Drivers
Taxi driving, a male-dominated occupation, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The increased risk is linked to a high prevalence of modifiable CVD risk factors including overweight/obesity, poor nutrition, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and physical inactivity. Behaviour change interventions may prove advantageous, yet little research has been conducted to reduce CVD risk in this population. The purpose o…
Medicine (21 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Health care (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Palliative care (6 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)