Claire Kendall
Biographic Data
| ID | 4217877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Kendall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Kendall |
| SIGNATURE | KENDALL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2686-1135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Policy to practice
Building a Socially Accountable Healthcare Workforce
Background: As part of our social accountability mandate, the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine produced a sociodemographic picture of our region’s residents, including gender, race/ethnicity, language, and neighbourhood of residence, in order to contribute to a representative healthcare workforce that can address the specific needs of our underserved communities. Approach: For our 2023 medical school cohort, we obtained data from the Onta…
Addressing Health Inequities Through Place-Based Data
Background: Improving primary care access requires a place-based understanding of social determinants of health (SDOH). However, health and SDOH data are often siloed, making it difficult to plan, implement, and monitor strategies that enhance health equity across communities. Approach: To increase cross-sector collaboration in addressing health inequities, we developed a collaborative data hub that integrates place-based, equity-oriented data on…
Evaluating Complex Health Interventions through Contribution Analysis
Background: Health interventions often involve complex, multifaceted components and dynamic, nonlinear effects that challenge traditional experimental methods like randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Contribution Analysis (CA) offers a theory-based impact evaluation approach that shifts the focus from solely attributing outcomes to interventions to understanding their contributions within specific contexts. Despite its widespread use in fields s…
Integrating siloed data
Siloed data are a problem to addressing social and health issues, including housing • Used a natural neighbourhood construct to integrate housing data in Ottawa, Canada • Results disseminated through a data story map easily accessible to stakeholders • Process facilitated by an advisory group, uniform terminology, data storytelling • Implications for the development of data tools for evidence-based policy, practice Siloed data hinder the developm…
Évaluer le potentiel de soins linguistiquement concordants pour les francophones de l’Ontario
Évaluer le potentiel de soins linguistiquement concordants pour les francophones de l’Ontario : une étude populationnelle transversale. Un article de la revue Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society (La santé en contexte francophone minoritaire au Canada : 20 ans de recherche) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Lived experiences of palliative care physicians on the impacts of language and cultural discordance on end-of-life care across Ontario, Canada
Cultural discordance required awareness of personal biases, while language discordance hindered basic communication. These findings will be useful in informing clinical practice guidelines and mobilizing policy-level change to improve palliative/EoL care for patients from linguistic and cultural minority groups
Trends in outpatient and inpatient visits for separate ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to global disruptions in non-urgent health services, affecting health outcomes of individuals with ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs). Methods: We conducted a province-based study using Ontario health administrative data (Canada) to determine trends in outpatient visits and hospitalization rates (per 100,000 people) in the general adult population for seven ACSCs during the first pandemic year (Marc…
Exploring Primary Care Physicians' Experiences of Language and Cultural Discordant Care for Linguistic Minority Patients at the End-of-Life
Health disparities exist across different linguistic groups. Language barriers in primary care can negatively affect access to healthcare services and the quality and safety of care at the end-of-life. This study will take a novel, in-depth look at the experience of language- and/or cultural-discordant care for adults from linguistic minority groups through the eyes of primary care physicians providing palliative and/or end-of-life care. Language…
“They have their security, we have our community”
Unaffordable housing is a growing crisis in Canada, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet perspectives of people living outdoors in encampments have primarily gone unheard. We conducted qualitative interviews with encampment residents to explore how mutual support occurred within the social context of encampments. We found that mutually supportive interactions helped residents meet basic survival needs, as well as health and social needs, and…
The Drug Use Unfortunately isn't all Bad
Self-management programs improve health outcomes and self-management is recommended for chronic conditions. Yet chronic disease self-management supports have rarely been applied to people who use drugs (PWUD). Thus, our objective was to explore self-management experiences among marginalized PWUD. We used community-based participatory methods and conducted qualitative interviews. Participants self-identified as having long-term and past year exper…
Global health and social accountability
Global health education has theoretical sensitivity to power differentials and inequities, giving global health critical force for change in health care systems, whereas social accountability involves a re-orientation towards addressing priority health needs determined jointly with communities
Using concept mapping to explore the challenges associated with affording and accessing medications among people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada
Antiretroviral medications are expensive, and people living with HIV often experience challenges accessing and paying for medication due to various obstacles. We used concept mapping to explore the challenges people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada, face when accessing medication. In brainstorming, 68 participants generated 447 statements in response to the focus prompt “Some people living with HIV have trouble getting and paying for prescripti…
A qualitative study of barriers to employment experienced by people living with HIV in Toronto and Ottawa
PLWH face significant barriers when attempting to engage with employment opportunities. Health providers and organizations can do more to support campaigns to end HIV stigma, to support individuals in pursuing employment, and to advocate for policy change that supports reentry into the workforce for PLHA
A comparison of the observed and expected prevalence of HIV in persons released from Ontario provincial prisons in 2010
Neighbourhood-level marginalization and avoidable mortality in Ontario, Canada
Patient activation among people living with HIV
Standardized self-management supports are an integral part of care delivery for many chronic conditions. We used the validated Patient Activation Measure (PAM®) to assess level of engagement for self-management from a sample of 165 people living with HIV (PLWH) and 163 people with diabetes. We conducted multivariable logistic regression to assess associations between demographics and PAM® scores. PLWH had high levels of activation that were no di…
Challenges with access to healthcare from the perspective of patients living with HIV
Accessing healthcare can be difficult but the barriers multiply for people living with HIV (PLHIV). To improve access and the health of PLHIV, we must consider their perspectives and use them to inform standard practice. A better understanding of the current literature related to healthcare access from the perspective of PLHIV, can help to identify evidence gaps and highlight research priorities and opportunities. To identify relevant peer-review…
Assessing Timely Presentation to Care Among People Diagnosed with HIV During Hospital Admission
Timely presentation to care for people newly diagnosed with HIV is critical to optimize health outcomes and reduce onward HIV transmission. Studies describing presentation to care following diagnosis during a hospital admission are lacking. We sought to assess the timeliness of presentation to care and to identify factors associated with delayed presentation. We conducted a population-level study using health administrative databases. Participant…
The impact of drug coverage on viral suppression among people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada
Social determinants of health and retention in HIV care in a clinical cohort in Ontario, Canada
Continuous HIV care supports antiretroviral therapy initiation and adherence, and prolongs survival. We investigated the association of social determinants of health (SDH) and subsequent retention in HIV care in a clinical cohort in Ontario, Canada. The Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study is a multi-site cohort of patients at 10 HIV clinics. Data were collected from medical charts, interviews, and via record linkage with the provincial pub…
Co-morbid Non-communicable Diseases and Associated Health Service Use in African and Caribbean Immigrants with HIV
A cross-sectional, population-based study measuring comorbidity among people living with HIV in Ontario
People living with HIV in Ontario, especially women, had higher prevalence of comorbidity and multimorbidity than the general population. Quantifying this morbidity at the population level can help inform healthcare delivery requirements for this complex population
Doing Medical Journals Differently
With considerable attention now being paid within scholarly communications to publication models that increase access to research, the launch of the open access journal Open Medicine demonstrates the contribution that open access, in all of its various economic models, can make to scholarly traditions of editorial independence, intellectual integrity, and academic freedom. This paper details the history of Open Medicine, which was born of an edit…
Neighbourhood-level marginalization and avoidable mortality in Ontario, Canada
The Drug Use Unfortunately isn't all Bad
Self-management programs improve health outcomes and self-management is recommended for chronic conditions. Yet chronic disease self-management supports have rarely been applied to people who use drugs (PWUD). Thus, our objective was to explore self-management experiences among marginalized PWUD. We used community-based participatory methods and conducted qualitative interviews. Participants self-identified as having long-term and past year exper…
Doing Medical Journals Differently
With considerable attention now being paid within scholarly communications to publication models that increase access to research, the launch of the open access journal Open Medicine demonstrates the contribution that open access, in all of its various economic models, can make to scholarly traditions of editorial independence, intellectual integrity, and academic freedom. This paper details the history of Open Medicine, which was born of an edit…
A cross-sectional, population-based study measuring comorbidity among people living with HIV in Ontario
People living with HIV in Ontario, especially women, had higher prevalence of comorbidity and multimorbidity than the general population. Quantifying this morbidity at the population level can help inform healthcare delivery requirements for this complex population
Social determinants of health and retention in HIV care in a clinical cohort in Ontario, Canada
Continuous HIV care supports antiretroviral therapy initiation and adherence, and prolongs survival. We investigated the association of social determinants of health (SDH) and subsequent retention in HIV care in a clinical cohort in Ontario, Canada. The Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study is a multi-site cohort of patients at 10 HIV clinics. Data were collected from medical charts, interviews, and via record linkage with the provincial pub…
Co-morbid Non-communicable Diseases and Associated Health Service Use in African and Caribbean Immigrants with HIV
Patient activation among people living with HIV
Standardized self-management supports are an integral part of care delivery for many chronic conditions. We used the validated Patient Activation Measure (PAM®) to assess level of engagement for self-management from a sample of 165 people living with HIV (PLWH) and 163 people with diabetes. We conducted multivariable logistic regression to assess associations between demographics and PAM® scores. PLWH had high levels of activation that were no di…
Challenges with access to healthcare from the perspective of patients living with HIV
Accessing healthcare can be difficult but the barriers multiply for people living with HIV (PLHIV). To improve access and the health of PLHIV, we must consider their perspectives and use them to inform standard practice. A better understanding of the current literature related to healthcare access from the perspective of PLHIV, can help to identify evidence gaps and highlight research priorities and opportunities. To identify relevant peer-review…
Assessing Timely Presentation to Care Among People Diagnosed with HIV During Hospital Admission
Timely presentation to care for people newly diagnosed with HIV is critical to optimize health outcomes and reduce onward HIV transmission. Studies describing presentation to care following diagnosis during a hospital admission are lacking. We sought to assess the timeliness of presentation to care and to identify factors associated with delayed presentation. We conducted a population-level study using health administrative databases. Participant…
The impact of drug coverage on viral suppression among people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada
A comparison of the observed and expected prevalence of HIV in persons released from Ontario provincial prisons in 2010
Neighbourhood-level marginalization and avoidable mortality in Ontario, Canada
Global health and social accountability
Global health education has theoretical sensitivity to power differentials and inequities, giving global health critical force for change in health care systems, whereas social accountability involves a re-orientation towards addressing priority health needs determined jointly with communities
Using concept mapping to explore the challenges associated with affording and accessing medications among people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada
Antiretroviral medications are expensive, and people living with HIV often experience challenges accessing and paying for medication due to various obstacles. We used concept mapping to explore the challenges people living with HIV in Ontario, Canada, face when accessing medication. In brainstorming, 68 participants generated 447 statements in response to the focus prompt “Some people living with HIV have trouble getting and paying for prescripti…
A qualitative study of barriers to employment experienced by people living with HIV in Toronto and Ottawa
PLWH face significant barriers when attempting to engage with employment opportunities. Health providers and organizations can do more to support campaigns to end HIV stigma, to support individuals in pursuing employment, and to advocate for policy change that supports reentry into the workforce for PLHA
“They have their security, we have our community”
Unaffordable housing is a growing crisis in Canada, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet perspectives of people living outdoors in encampments have primarily gone unheard. We conducted qualitative interviews with encampment residents to explore how mutual support occurred within the social context of encampments. We found that mutually supportive interactions helped residents meet basic survival needs, as well as health and social needs, and…
The Drug Use Unfortunately isn't all Bad
Self-management programs improve health outcomes and self-management is recommended for chronic conditions. Yet chronic disease self-management supports have rarely been applied to people who use drugs (PWUD). Thus, our objective was to explore self-management experiences among marginalized PWUD. We used community-based participatory methods and conducted qualitative interviews. Participants self-identified as having long-term and past year exper…
Trends in outpatient and inpatient visits for separate ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to global disruptions in non-urgent health services, affecting health outcomes of individuals with ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs). Methods: We conducted a province-based study using Ontario health administrative data (Canada) to determine trends in outpatient visits and hospitalization rates (per 100,000 people) in the general adult population for seven ACSCs during the first pandemic year (Marc…
Exploring Primary Care Physicians' Experiences of Language and Cultural Discordant Care for Linguistic Minority Patients at the End-of-Life
Health disparities exist across different linguistic groups. Language barriers in primary care can negatively affect access to healthcare services and the quality and safety of care at the end-of-life. This study will take a novel, in-depth look at the experience of language- and/or cultural-discordant care for adults from linguistic minority groups through the eyes of primary care physicians providing palliative and/or end-of-life care. Language…
Évaluer le potentiel de soins linguistiquement concordants pour les francophones de l’Ontario
Évaluer le potentiel de soins linguistiquement concordants pour les francophones de l’Ontario : une étude populationnelle transversale. Un article de la revue Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society (La santé en contexte francophone minoritaire au Canada : 20 ans de recherche) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Lived experiences of palliative care physicians on the impacts of language and cultural discordance on end-of-life care across Ontario, Canada
Cultural discordance required awareness of personal biases, while language discordance hindered basic communication. These findings will be useful in informing clinical practice guidelines and mobilizing policy-level change to improve palliative/EoL care for patients from linguistic and cultural minority groups
Integrating siloed data
Siloed data are a problem to addressing social and health issues, including housing • Used a natural neighbourhood construct to integrate housing data in Ottawa, Canada • Results disseminated through a data story map easily accessible to stakeholders • Process facilitated by an advisory group, uniform terminology, data storytelling • Implications for the development of data tools for evidence-based policy, practice Siloed data hinder the developm…
Policy to practice
Building a Socially Accountable Healthcare Workforce
Background: As part of our social accountability mandate, the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine produced a sociodemographic picture of our region’s residents, including gender, race/ethnicity, language, and neighbourhood of residence, in order to contribute to a representative healthcare workforce that can address the specific needs of our underserved communities. Approach: For our 2023 medical school cohort, we obtained data from the Onta…
Addressing Health Inequities Through Place-Based Data
Background: Improving primary care access requires a place-based understanding of social determinants of health (SDOH). However, health and SDOH data are often siloed, making it difficult to plan, implement, and monitor strategies that enhance health equity across communities. Approach: To increase cross-sector collaboration in addressing health inequities, we developed a collaborative data hub that integrates place-based, equity-oriented data on…
Evaluating Complex Health Interventions through Contribution Analysis
Background: Health interventions often involve complex, multifaceted components and dynamic, nonlinear effects that challenge traditional experimental methods like randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Contribution Analysis (CA) offers a theory-based impact evaluation approach that shifts the focus from solely attributing outcomes to interventions to understanding their contributions within specific contexts. Despite its widespread use in fields s…
Medicine (17 works) · Health care (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Family medicine (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Population (7 works)