Richard T Oster
Biographic Data
| ID | 825699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard T Oster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard T |
| FAMILY NAME | Oster |
| SIGNATURE | OSTER R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0657-9263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Perinatal wellbeing through restoring healthy family systems in a nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) community
Introduction A collaborative research partnership in Alberta (Canada) was formed with the goal of supporting optimal health during the perinatal period for diverse Indigenous populations. Our approach utilized community-led strategies that promote the best possible healthy life for families and children. This partnership was guided by a Restoring and Supporting Healthy Family Systems (RSHFS) conceptual model based primarily on Indigenous ways of …
Revitalising strong cultural connections and resilience
Connecting with traditional knowledge and culture promotes the well-being of Indigenous parents and creates healthy environments for child development. Community Elders in a remote northern community in Alberta, Canada, collaborated with researchers to design a pilot Elders Mentoring Program. The programme aims to support young Indigenous mothers(-to-be), bringing back cultural traditions and teachings. Twelve workshops for Indigenous mothers(-to…
Exploring the experiences of mothers of children with type 1 diabetes in Northern Alberta
Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes presents many stressors for mothers. Over time, mothers gain confidence about their abilities as caregivers. They find relief in online networks and access to continuous glucose monitors, which alleviate some anxiety and sleep deprivation but also present challenges. Our findings highlight the importance of improving access to affordable technology, psychological support, and respite care to improve loss of…
A rapid systematized review of evaluated health care programmes for Indigenous peoples in Canada with First Nations authentication of cultural safety domains
A rapid systematized review of health care programmes for Indigenous peoples in Canada from January 1 2019 to March 9 2022 resulted in two programmes that were evaluated as safe by the Indigenous recipients of care. Thematic analysis identified four cultural safety domains that created a safe, high-quality, patient-centred approach to health programming for Indigenous peoples from the evaluated programmes, a scoping review and the grey literature…
Efforts to Introduce an Indigenous Identifier in a Canadian Provincial Health Authority
Across Canada, Indigenous identity data is not routinely collected in healthcare settings. This paper focuses on [province] and whether the largest and only province-wide healthcare services organization in Canada, [healthcare organization name] should implement an Indigenous identifier in their new electronic medical record system. Due to the current absence of an Indigenous identifier, it is difficult to identify Indigenous peoples in administr…
Barriers and supports for Indigenous youth and young adults with childhood- onset chronic health conditions transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare
This study demonstrates the complexity of the transition experience for Indigenous youth with pediatric onset chronic health conditions. The identified barriers to successful transition could be addressed through systems level changes and the development of Indigenous specific transition support services. Such approaches need to be Indigenous-led and incorporate Indigenous culture, language, and teachings
Mâmawihitowin (bringing the camps together)
An Indigenous-led experiential learning intervention was effective in enhancing overall perceived cultural awareness and preparedness to provide culturally informed care for perinatal HCPs and staff. This study provides evidence for fostering relationships between Indigenous communities and health systems toward enhanced perinatal care
Wîcohkamakew (“S/he Helps Someone”)
Background: Responding to concerns about perinatal health risks and adverse outcomes, we established a community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership between a Nêhiyawi (Cree) community and university-based researchers. We designed and implemented a community-derived Elders Mentoring Program (EMP) to provide additional support for pregnant women and their partners. Our objective was to understand the collective experiences of those inv…
Wîcohkamakew (“S/he Helps Someone”)
A community-derived prenatal EMP, designed in partnership with those who have intimate knowledge of the community, is a major step toward ensuring multi-generational and culturally secure care in pregnancy for women and families
Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds
Information collected in the indigenous cohort will be used to assist communities to develop local management strategies for chronic disease, and can be used collectively to understand the contextual, environmental, socioeconomic, and biological determinants of differences in health status in harmony with First Nations beliefs and reality
Peyakohewamak-Needs of Involved Nehiyaw (Cree) Fathers Supporting Their Partners During Pregnancy
We sought to understand the needs of involved Nehiyaw (Cree) fathers who supported their partners during pregnancy. We used qualitative description and a community-based participatory research approach. We carried out in-depth semi-structured interviews with six Nehiyaw fathers. Four also participated in photovoice and follow-up interviews. All data were content analyzed qualitatively. Fathers felt they had to support their partners and overcome …
Cultural continuity, traditional Indigenous language, and diabetes in Alberta First Nations
First Nations that have been better able to preserve their culture may be relatively protected from diabetes
Diabetes in Pregnancy Among First Nations Women
We conducted a focused ethnography with 12 First Nations women who had had diabetes in pregnancy to understand their real-life experiences and find ways to improve care for those with diabetes in pregnancy. We carried out unstructured interviews that were recorded, transcribed, and subject to qualitative content analysis. The experience of diabetes in pregnancy is one wrought with difficulties but balanced to some degree by positive lifestyle cha…
Improvements in Indicators of Diabetes-related Health Status Among First Nations Individuals Enrolled in a Community-driven Diabetes Complications Mobile Screening Program in Alberta, Canada
When Men Wore Veils to Worship
1 Corinthians 11. 2–16, because of the social concerns of much contemporary exegesis and theology, has provided a rich vein from which to quarry materials for current feminist agendas. However, exegetes have tended to neglect the ‘male issue’ in this text and the Corinthian context underlying it. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the most plausible matrix of the practices addressed by Paul in 1 Cor 11. 4 when he refers to . Numerous e…
Peyakohewamak-Needs of Involved Nehiyaw (Cree) Fathers Supporting Their Partners During Pregnancy
We sought to understand the needs of involved Nehiyaw (Cree) fathers who supported their partners during pregnancy. We used qualitative description and a community-based participatory research approach. We carried out in-depth semi-structured interviews with six Nehiyaw fathers. Four also participated in photovoice and follow-up interviews. All data were content analyzed qualitatively. Fathers felt they had to support their partners and overcome …
Diabetes in Pregnancy Among First Nations Women
We conducted a focused ethnography with 12 First Nations women who had had diabetes in pregnancy to understand their real-life experiences and find ways to improve care for those with diabetes in pregnancy. We carried out unstructured interviews that were recorded, transcribed, and subject to qualitative content analysis. The experience of diabetes in pregnancy is one wrought with difficulties but balanced to some degree by positive lifestyle cha…
Improvements in Indicators of Diabetes-related Health Status Among First Nations Individuals Enrolled in a Community-driven Diabetes Complications Mobile Screening Program in Alberta, Canada
When Men Wore Veils to Worship
1 Corinthians 11. 2–16, because of the social concerns of much contemporary exegesis and theology, has provided a rich vein from which to quarry materials for current feminist agendas. However, exegetes have tended to neglect the ‘male issue’ in this text and the Corinthian context underlying it. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the most plausible matrix of the practices addressed by Paul in 1 Cor 11. 4 when he refers to . Numerous e…
Improvements in Indicators of Diabetes-related Health Status Among First Nations Individuals Enrolled in a Community-driven Diabetes Complications Mobile Screening Program in Alberta, Canada
Cultural continuity, traditional Indigenous language, and diabetes in Alberta First Nations
First Nations that have been better able to preserve their culture may be relatively protected from diabetes
Diabetes in Pregnancy Among First Nations Women
We conducted a focused ethnography with 12 First Nations women who had had diabetes in pregnancy to understand their real-life experiences and find ways to improve care for those with diabetes in pregnancy. We carried out unstructured interviews that were recorded, transcribed, and subject to qualitative content analysis. The experience of diabetes in pregnancy is one wrought with difficulties but balanced to some degree by positive lifestyle cha…
Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds
Information collected in the indigenous cohort will be used to assist communities to develop local management strategies for chronic disease, and can be used collectively to understand the contextual, environmental, socioeconomic, and biological determinants of differences in health status in harmony with First Nations beliefs and reality
Peyakohewamak-Needs of Involved Nehiyaw (Cree) Fathers Supporting Their Partners During Pregnancy
We sought to understand the needs of involved Nehiyaw (Cree) fathers who supported their partners during pregnancy. We used qualitative description and a community-based participatory research approach. We carried out in-depth semi-structured interviews with six Nehiyaw fathers. Four also participated in photovoice and follow-up interviews. All data were content analyzed qualitatively. Fathers felt they had to support their partners and overcome …
Wîcohkamakew (“S/he Helps Someone”)
Background: Responding to concerns about perinatal health risks and adverse outcomes, we established a community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership between a Nêhiyawi (Cree) community and university-based researchers. We designed and implemented a community-derived Elders Mentoring Program (EMP) to provide additional support for pregnant women and their partners. Our objective was to understand the collective experiences of those inv…
Wîcohkamakew (“S/he Helps Someone”)
A community-derived prenatal EMP, designed in partnership with those who have intimate knowledge of the community, is a major step toward ensuring multi-generational and culturally secure care in pregnancy for women and families
Mâmawihitowin (bringing the camps together)
An Indigenous-led experiential learning intervention was effective in enhancing overall perceived cultural awareness and preparedness to provide culturally informed care for perinatal HCPs and staff. This study provides evidence for fostering relationships between Indigenous communities and health systems toward enhanced perinatal care
Efforts to Introduce an Indigenous Identifier in a Canadian Provincial Health Authority
Across Canada, Indigenous identity data is not routinely collected in healthcare settings. This paper focuses on [province] and whether the largest and only province-wide healthcare services organization in Canada, [healthcare organization name] should implement an Indigenous identifier in their new electronic medical record system. Due to the current absence of an Indigenous identifier, it is difficult to identify Indigenous peoples in administr…
Barriers and supports for Indigenous youth and young adults with childhood- onset chronic health conditions transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare
This study demonstrates the complexity of the transition experience for Indigenous youth with pediatric onset chronic health conditions. The identified barriers to successful transition could be addressed through systems level changes and the development of Indigenous specific transition support services. Such approaches need to be Indigenous-led and incorporate Indigenous culture, language, and teachings
Revitalising strong cultural connections and resilience
Connecting with traditional knowledge and culture promotes the well-being of Indigenous parents and creates healthy environments for child development. Community Elders in a remote northern community in Alberta, Canada, collaborated with researchers to design a pilot Elders Mentoring Program. The programme aims to support young Indigenous mothers(-to-be), bringing back cultural traditions and teachings. Twelve workshops for Indigenous mothers(-to…
Exploring the experiences of mothers of children with type 1 diabetes in Northern Alberta
Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes presents many stressors for mothers. Over time, mothers gain confidence about their abilities as caregivers. They find relief in online networks and access to continuous glucose monitors, which alleviate some anxiety and sleep deprivation but also present challenges. Our findings highlight the importance of improving access to affordable technology, psychological support, and respite care to improve loss of…
A rapid systematized review of evaluated health care programmes for Indigenous peoples in Canada with First Nations authentication of cultural safety domains
A rapid systematized review of health care programmes for Indigenous peoples in Canada from January 1 2019 to March 9 2022 resulted in two programmes that were evaluated as safe by the Indigenous recipients of care. Thematic analysis identified four cultural safety domains that created a safe, high-quality, patient-centred approach to health programming for Indigenous peoples from the evaluated programmes, a scoping review and the grey literature…
Perinatal wellbeing through restoring healthy family systems in a nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) community
Introduction A collaborative research partnership in Alberta (Canada) was formed with the goal of supporting optimal health during the perinatal period for diverse Indigenous populations. Our approach utilized community-led strategies that promote the best possible healthy life for families and children. This partnership was guided by a Restoring and Supporting Healthy Family Systems (RSHFS) conceptual model based primarily on Indigenous ways of …
Medicine (11 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Community-based participatory research (5 works)