Joan L Bottorff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77874 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joan L Bottorff |
| NOMBRES | Joan L |
| APELLIDO | Bottorff |
| FIRMA | BOTTORFF J L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9724-5351 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 92 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 404 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
The Impact of Urban Regeneration, Air Pollution, Green Space, and Paved Roads on Problematic Alcohol Use
Background Evidence on the association between urban regeneration and alcohol use remains limited. This study examines the impact of urban environmental factors, specifically air pollution (measured by PM2.5, a common indicator of fine particulate matter), traffic congestion, and limited green space, on problematic alcohol use, and explores potential social and behavioral mechanisms underlying these relationships.Methods A cross-sectional survey …
Men’s Preferences for Language and Communication in Mental Health Promotion
Tailored language and communication strategies underpin men's engagement with public health initiatives. The aim of this study was to explore men's preferences for language and communication in mental health promotion and provide recommendations for current and future programs. A sequential mixed-methods design was used including five focus groups and 21 individual interviews with 64 men. Interpretive description was used to inductively derive th…
Connecting Australian Masculinities and Culture to Mental Health
Masculinities and culture are intertwined and have significant implications for men's mental health. This study aimed to explore influences of Australian masculinities and culture on men's mental health. Five focus groups were conducted with men ( N = 43) living in New South Wales, Australia. Three overarching themes were identified: (1) a history of strength and self-reliance: taketh as we are, she'll be right, (2) social and geographical divide…
Community stakeholder‐driven technology solutions towards rural health equity
BACKGROUND: Technology holds great potential for promoting health equity for rural populations, who have more chronic illnesses than their urban counterparts but less access to services. Yet, more participatory research approaches are needed to gather community-driven health technology solutions. The purpose was to collaboratively identify and prioritize action strategies for using technology to promote rural health equity through community stake…
Men’s Physical Activity and Sleep Following a Workplace Health Intervention
The workplace provides an important delivery point for health promotion, yet many programs fail to engage men. A gender-sensitive 8-week team challenge-based intervention targeting increased physical activity was delivered at a petrochemical worksite. The purpose of this study was to examine men’s pre–post physical activity and sleep following the intervention, as well as to explore program acceptability and gather men’s recommendations for healt…
Scaling up a community-led health promotion initiative
The increase in overweight and obesity among children has emerged as an important public health issue. This trend has highlighted the need for accessible and novel approaches to support healthy weights for children and their families to prevent childhood obesity. The purpose of this article is to describe the iterative development and scale-up of a community-led, national-level project to promote healthy weights among Canadian children and famili…
Association of Excessive WeChat Use with Mental Disorders
This study provides new evidence that excessive WeChat use is associated with mental disorders. These findings underscore the importance of alerting people to the possible health risks of excessive social media use
Prostate Cancer Treatment and Work
Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy diagnosed in North American men. Although medical advances have improved survival rates, men treated for prostate cancer experience side-effects that can reduce their work capacity, increase financial stress, and affect their career and/or retirement plans. Working-age males comprise a significant proportion of new prostate cancer diagnoses. It is important, therefore, to understand the connections be…
A RE-AIM evaluation of Healthy Together
ClincialTrials.gov NCT03550248. Registered May 25, 2018
Reformulating the Worker Identity
The number of men in the Canadian workforce who have prostate cancer is increasing. The purpose of the study was to explore the processes involved in men's return to work post radical prostatectomy and understand how these events are connected to masculinities. Drawing on data collected through individual interviews with 24 participants, constructivist grounded theory method was used to develop the substantive theory of Reformulating the Worker I…
Development and Implementation of the Family Caregiver Decision Guide
Care provided by family is the backbone of palliative care in Canada. The critical roles performed by caregivers can at the same time be intensely meaningful and intensely stressful. However, experiences of caregiving can be enhanced when caregivers feel they are making informed and reflective decisions about the options available to them. With this in mind, the purpose of this five-phase research project was to create a Family Caregiver Decision…
Evaluating the feasibility of a gender-sensitized smoking cessation program for fathers
© 2019 American Psychological Association. Dads in Gear (DIG) is a novel 8-week, gender-sensitized smoking cessation program targeting fathers. The purpose of this study was to use the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework to evaluate the DIG program. Using a prospective, noncomparative design, DIG was implemented in 5 communities by trained male facilitators. Data were collected using (a) records from…
Mental health promotion in male-dominated workplaces
Men on Losing a Male to Suicide
Although male suicide has received research attention, the gendered experiences of men bereaved by male suicide are poorly understood. Addressing this knowledge gap, we share findings drawn from a photovoice study of Canadian-based men who had lost a male friend, partner, or family member to suicide. Two categories depicting the men's overall account of the suicide were inductively derived: (a) unforeseen suicide and (b) rationalized suicide. The…
Photovoice Ethics
As photovoice continues to grow as a method for researching health and illness, there is a need for rigorous discussions about ethical considerations. In this article, we discuss three key ethical issues arising from a recent photovoice study investigating men's depression and suicide. The first issue, indelible images, details the complexity of consent and copyright when participant-produced photographs are shown at exhibitions and online where …
Understanding the Life Histories of Pregnant-Involved Young Aboriginal Women With Substance Use Experiences in Three Canadian Cities
Despite attention paid to substance use during pregnancy, understandings of young Aboriginal women's experiences based on their perspectives have been virtually absent in the published literature. This study's objective was to understand the life experiences of pregnant-involved young Aboriginal women with alcohol and drugs. Semi-structured interviews to gather life histories were conducted with 23 young Aboriginal women who had experiences with …
Smoking on the margins
Overall success with the implementation of the bylaw is tempered by potential increases in health inequities because of variable enforcement of the ban; greatest levels of smoking appear to continue to occur in the least advantaged areas of the city. Jurisdictions developing such policies need to consider how to allocate sufficient resources to enhance voluntary compliance and ensure that such bylaws do not contribute to health inequities
Low-Income Mothers’ Descriptions of Children’s Injury-Related Events
The purpose of this study was to examine how mothers with young children who were living in low-income households used discursive strategies to explain their children's injury and near-miss events. In-person interviews were conducted with 17 mothers and a discourse analytic approach was used to analyze the data. Mothers used a variety of discursive strategies to explain injury events including minimizing the nature of events and expressing tensio…
A qualitative study of Chinese Canadian fathers’ smoking behaviors
The findings have implications for the development of future smoking cessation interventions targeting Chinese Canadian immigrant smokers as well as smokers in China
Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) in Tobacco Control in China
This study is the first comprehensive survey of students in China providing direction for building capacity in tobacco control and smoking cessation among students in health professional programs
Visibility and Voice
In Canada, cultural safety (CS) is emerging as a theoretical and practice lens to orient health care services to meet the needs of Aboriginal people. Evidence suggests Aboriginal peoples' encounters with health care are commonly negative, and there is concern that these experiences can contribute to further adverse health outcomes. In this article, we report findings based on participatory action research drawing on Indigenous methods. Our projec…
Knowledge Translation
Analyzing Data Generated Through Deliberative Dialogue
Deliberative dialogue (DD) is a knowledge translation strategy that can serve to generate rich data and bridge health research with action. An intriguing alternative to other modes of generating data, the purposeful and evidence-informed conversations characteristic of DD generate data inclusive of collective interpretations. These data are thus dialogic, presenting complex challenges for qualitative analysis. In this article, we discuss the natu…
Personal and social determinants sustaining smoking practices in rural China
Development of comprehensive smoking cessation interventions in rural China needs to extend beyond an individual level to take into account the social determinants influencing smoking practices
An examination of exposure and avoidance behavior related to second-hand cigarette smoke among adolescent girls in Canada
Despite historically low smoking rates, many adolescent girls continue to report regular SHS exposure in multiple locations in British Columbia. Girls with the most frequent exposure were significantly less likely to report habitual avoidance behavior related to SHS compared to those less frequently exposed. This study elucidates settings of high SHS exposure among adolescent girls that could be targeted in future policy interventions. Additional…
Further Than the Eye Can See? Photo Elicitation and Research With Men
Photo elicitation studies have attracted modest attention in qualitative health research. However, few researchers have focused exclusively on men's health and/or illness experiences. In this article, the authors discuss the benefits of using photo elicitation among a subcohort of 19 prostate cancer survivors from a larger ethnographic study. Specifically, participants were asked to imagine that they were being paid to mount a photographic exhibi…
You feel like you can't live anymore
Can we move beyond burden and burnout to support the health and wellness of family caregivers to persons with dementia? Evidence from British Columbia, Canada
After more than a decade of concerted effort by policy-makers in Canada and elsewhere to encourage older adults to age at home, there is recognition that the ageing-in-place movement has had unintended negative consequences for family members who care for seniors. This paper outlines findings of a qualitative descriptive study to investigate the health and wellness and support needs of family caregivers to persons with dementia in the Canadian po…
Photovoice Ethics
As photovoice continues to grow as a method for researching health and illness, there is a need for rigorous discussions about ethical considerations. In this article, we discuss three key ethical issues arising from a recent photovoice study investigating men's depression and suicide. The first issue, indelible images, details the complexity of consent and copyright when participant-produced photographs are shown at exhibitions and online where …
A Narrative View of Art Therapy and Art Making by Women with Breast Cancer
Art therapy (with an art therapist) and art making (without an art therapist) show promise as avenues for psychosocial support for women with breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of how 17 women with breast cancer in Canada and the USA used art therapy and their own art making to address their psychosocial needs, focusing particularly on meaning making. Narrative analysis of interviews yielded four storyl…
Gender relations, prostate cancer and diet
He's more typically female because he's not afraid to cry
Masculinities, Work, and Retirement Among Older Men Who Experience Depression
The high incidence of depression among older men has been linked to numerous factors. In this qualitative descriptive study of 30 older, Canadian-based men who experienced depression, we explored the connections between participants' depression, masculinities, work, and retirement. Our analyses revealed three thematic findings. The recursive relationship between depression and work was reflected in depression impeding and emerging from paid work,…
Women and prostate cancer support groups
Men's constructions of smoking in the context of women's tobacco reduction during pregnancy and postpartum
Beliefs related to breast health practices
Visibility and Voice
In Canada, cultural safety (CS) is emerging as a theoretical and practice lens to orient health care services to meet the needs of Aboriginal people. Evidence suggests Aboriginal peoples' encounters with health care are commonly negative, and there is concern that these experiences can contribute to further adverse health outcomes. In this article, we report findings based on participatory action research drawing on Indigenous methods. Our projec…
The influence of significant others in complementary and alternative medicine decisions by cancer patients
Tobacco dependence
Blending Observational Methods
Qualitative researchers have used the observational strategies of video recording and participant observation to investigate specific phenomena. Although there have been recent advances in the separate use of these strategies, there is evidence that there is benefit in combining these observational approaches to study particular phenomena. The purpose of the paper is to present a discussion about the application of these observational methods as …
Unclean fathers, responsible men
In this article, we report on the experiences of men who are smokers in the context of new fatherhood and explore the intersections of stigma, masculinities, and contemporary fathering. The men in this ethnographic study reveal both internalised and externalised stigma and describe situations and feelings when they became aware of the stigmatising qualities of smoking as new fathers. Fathers, expectant and new, are beginning to experience the foc…
Fathers' narratives of reducing and quitting smoking
Despite much attention on women's efforts to reduce or stop smoking during pregnancy and postpartum, less attention has been directed to fathers' experiences in modifying their smoking. Using narrative methods, interviews with 29 new fathers were examined to identify different ways in which men approached reducing or quitting smoking. Four storylines were identified: the cold turkey storyline framed quitting smoking as a snap decision with no nee…
Attitudes, Ideology, and the Factor Model
Recent discussions of the ideological basis of attitudes utilize both ordinary and confirmatory factor analysis as analytical representations of ideology. We examine the theoretical implications of employing this modeling style, and conclude that it imposes severe limitations on how ideology can be conceptualized and that it can lead to unreasonable claims about the sources of attitudes. The counting of as the dimensionality of ideology is an exe…
Breast Cancer Messaging for Younger Women
Evidence linking both active smoking and secondhand smoke exposure to premenopausal breast cancer makes the development of health messages specific to younger women a pressing priority. To determine how to communicate information about this modifiable breast cancer risk to young women, we analyzed a selection of 32 recent English-language breast cancer messages and campaigns that targeted young women. In addition, we obtained young women's respon…
Men's business, women's work
To further understand men's continued smoking during their partner's pregnancy and the postpartum period, a study was undertaken to explore women's perspectives of men's smoking. Using a gender lens, a thematic analysis of transcribed interviews with 27 women was completed. Women's constructions of men's smoking and linkages to masculine and feminine ideals are described. The findings highlight the ways women position themselves both as defenders…
Prostate cancer support groups, health literacy and consumerism
In this article we describe the connections between prostate cancer support groups (PCSGs) and men's health literacy and consumer orientation to health care services. The study findings are drawn from participant observations conducted at 16 PCSGs in British Columbia, Canada and 54 individual interviews that focused on men's experiences of attending group meetings. Men's communication and interactions at PCSGs provide important insights for how m…
Fathers
Many fathers mitigate the harm of their smoking by physically separating their smoking from their children and child care activities.The aim of this study was to empirically locate smoking and masculinities by detailing the highly gendered nature of the everyday places where fathers smoke. A masculinities framework was used to interpret interview and photovoice data drawn from an ethnographic study of fathers who smoke. Twenty participants comple…
It is just not part of the culture here”
In this article we consider young adults' photo-narratives about smoking and quitting and their linkages to themes of healthy lifestyles and the culture of place in Vancouver, Canada. Drawing from a pilot study using participant-driven photography with a group of twelve young women and men ages nineteen to twenty-six, participants' visual and narrative representations of being a smoker and the process of quitting smoking were analyzed. Findings s…
The Gender(s) in the Room
Masculinities and college men's depression
Depression is a significant problem among college men. This qualitative study examines the interplay between masculinities and depression among Canadian-based college men who self-identified or were formally diagnosed with depression. The resulting three themes – mind matters, stalled intimacy and lethargic discontent – reveal the recursive relationships between masculinities and depression whereby depression quashed men’s aspirations for embodyi…
The Lived Experience of Being Comforted by a Nurse
During my master's program in nursing at the University ofAlberta my intro duction to qualitative research methods sparked an interest in phenomenology and led me to spend a semester studying with Vangie Bergum, a member of the Faculty ofNursing whose research interests centered around phenomenology and its application to understanding the experience pregnancy and childbirth. We spent many enjoyable hours discussing the writings of prominent phen…
The adolescent menstrual attitude questionnaire, part I
A valid, reliable, and age-appropriate instrument to measure adolescent responses to menarche was constructed. The Adolescent Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire is a 5-point Likert scale (with six sub-scales) with versions for pre- and postmenarcheal girls. Scale development included (a) content validation, (b) testing (with 860 premenarcheal and 1,013 postmenarcheal girls), (c) discriminant analysis (to identify items unique to the pre- and postme…
Transitions in Nurse-Patient Interactions
The combination of videotapes and qualitative ethological methods offers researchers investigating the interactions between health care providers and patients the opportunity to gain rich, complex understandings of the interaction dynamics that lead to enhanced health care outcomes. Verbal and nonverbal behaviors of patients and nurses were analyzed using videotapes of caregiving. Using techniques of qualitative ethology, the purpose of this stud…
Attitudes, Ideology, and the Factor Model
Recent discussions of the ideological basis of attitudes utilize both ordinary and confirmatory factor analysis as analytical representations of ideology. We examine the theoretical implications of employing this modeling style, and conclude that it imposes severe limitations on how ideology can be conceptualized and that it can lead to unreasonable claims about the sources of attitudes. The counting of as the dimensionality of ideology is an exe…
Beliefs related to breast health practices
The Desi Ways
Although many South Asian immigrants have made their homes in Canada, little research has examined health behaviors in this population and fewer studies have examined the use of traditional health practices. As part of a larger study on health-seeking patterns of South Asian women living in Western Canada, an analysis was done on the use of traditional health practices. Using critical ethnographic methods, data were collected through face-to-face…
Mothers’ Efforts to Protect Their Infants from Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Women’s Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk
Tobacco dependence
Blending Observational Methods
Qualitative researchers have used the observational strategies of video recording and participant observation to investigate specific phenomena. Although there have been recent advances in the separate use of these strategies, there is evidence that there is benefit in combining these observational approaches to study particular phenomena. The purpose of the paper is to present a discussion about the application of these observational methods as …
Othering and Being Othered in the Context of Health Care Services
Othering is a process that identifies those that are thought to be different from oneself or the mainstream, and it can reinforce and reproduce positions of domination and subordination. Although there are theoretical and conceptual treatments of othering in the literature, researchers lack sufficient examples of othering practices that influence the interactions between patients and health care providers. The purpose of this study was to explore…
Socio-demographic Correlates of Cigarette Smoking Among High School Students
Synchronizing Clinician Engagement and Client Motivation in Telephone Counseling
Health care increasingly incorporates telephone counseling, but the interactions supporting its delivery are not well understood. The authors' clinical trial of a tailored, nurse-administered smoking cessation intervention for surgical patients included a telephone counseling component and provided an opportunity to describe the interaction dynamics of proactive telephone counseling over the course of 4 months. Tape-recorded telephone counseling …
Becoming the Real Me”
We investigated the process of recovery from anorexia nervosa using grounded theory. Open-ended interviews conducted with 9 women who had recovered from anorexia nervosa revealed that recovery focused on rediscovery and redefinition of the self and included the following: (1) seeing the dangers, (2) inching out of anorexia, (3) tolerating exposure without anorexia, (4) gaining perspective by changing the anorexia mindset, and (5) discovering and …
Mothers Who Smoke
Interviews with mothers who smoke were analyzed to examine the influence of social discourses. Women presented themselves as knowledgeable about the health risks of tobacco, confessed guilt and shame, attempted to deflect accusations of neglect for smoking or exposing their children to tobacco, provided rationalization that they smoked for the sake of their children, and, although they were all smokers, demonstrated an antismoking stance. The fin…
Tobacco Use in Intimate Spaces
Few guidelines exist for using qualitative research to examine couple dynamics in contexts complicated by strong social stigmas and wide-ranging patterns of interpersonal relationships. The purpose of this article is to describe the methodological and ethical issues that arose in an ongoing qualitative study focused on tobacco reduction in the context of couple relationships, and the strategies undertaken to deal with these challenges. The author…
An ethnographic study of tobacco control in hospital settings
Overcoming challenges to extending tobacco control within hospitals could be enhanced by emphasising the value of addressing patients' tobacco use, raising awareness of nicotine dependence, and improving the availability of resources to address addiction issues
What Are the Effects of Tobacco Policies on Vulnerable Populations
The influence of significant others in complementary and alternative medicine decisions by cancer patients
Men's constructions of smoking in the context of women's tobacco reduction during pregnancy and postpartum
A Narrative View of Art Therapy and Art Making by Women with Breast Cancer
Art therapy (with an art therapist) and art making (without an art therapist) show promise as avenues for psychosocial support for women with breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of how 17 women with breast cancer in Canada and the USA used art therapy and their own art making to address their psychosocial needs, focusing particularly on meaning making. Narrative analysis of interviews yielded four storyl…
Punjabi Immigrant Women’s Breast Cancer Stories
Case Studies of Power and Control Related to Tobacco Use During Pregnancy
Family Support of Immigrant Punjabi Women With Breast Cancer
Women with breast cancer have been found to rely heavily on family members for providing support during their illness experiences. There has been limited research on ethnocultural families' experiences of illness and how these families respond to a diagnosis of breast cancer. This study examined the experiences and responses of family members of immigrant Punjabi women diagnosed with breast cancer. Through interviews with 19 Punjabi women diagnos…
Elderly South Asian Canadian Immigrant Men
The experiences of elderly South Asian (SA) men who have immigrated to Canada provide unique insights to men's health and illness behaviors and beliefs. In this article, we describe the connections between masculinity, culture, and health among a cohort of 14 SA immigrant men. The findings indicated that participants' health behaviors were closely aligned to those of western men. However, a fine-grained analysis revealed how complex cultural conn…
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