Janet Parsons
Biographic Data
| ID | 83153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Parsons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Parsons |
| SIGNATURE | PARSONS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Michael's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9010-4118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impact of determinants of health on the relationship between stigma and health in people living with HIV
Determinants of health are important drivers of health states, yet there is little work examining their role in the relationship between HIV stigma and health. This study uses moderation analysis to examine how determinants of health affect the relationship between enacted, internalized, and anticipated stigma and mental health. Quantitative data was collected on 337 participants in Ontario, Canada at baseline (t1) between August 2018 and Septemb…
Exploring the effects of Covid-19 outbreak control policies on services offered to people experiencing homelessness
The results of this project may inform context-specific emergency preparedness and response plans for COVID-19, future public health emergencies, and ongoing housing crises
The Role of Dimensions of Social Support in the Relationship Between Stigma and Mental Health: A Moderation Analysis
The cost of anticipating stigma: A longitudinal examination of HIV stigma and health
Levels of HIV stigma remain high, however there is a limited understanding around how different types of stigma interact to impact health. This study uses data from two time points to examine how enacted and internalized stigma lead to worse health through anticipated stigma as a mediator. We recruited 341 participants in Ontario, Canada to complete the HIV Stigma Index survey at baseline (t1) from September 2018 to August 2019 and follow up (t2)…
Considerations for the design of overdose education and naloxone distribution interventions: Results of a multi-stakeholder workshop
To create an naloxone distribution program in emergency departments, family practice and substance use treatment services, stigma is a central design consideration for training and naloxone kits. Design choices that reference the iconography, type, and form of materials associated with first aid have the potential to satisfy the need to de-stigmatize overdose response
Factors associated with Covid-19 vaccination in young children
Elizabeth Koepping. 2020. Spousal Violence among World Christians: Silent Scandal
Impact of experienced HIV stigma on health is mediated by internalized stigma and depression: Results from the people living with HIV stigma index in Ontario
We developed a mediation model to explain how HIV-related stigma negatively impacts health. We found that that enacted stigma, or experiences of prejudice or discrimination, can lead to internalized stigma, or internalization of negative thoughts regarding one's HIV status and/or increased depressive symptoms which then may lead to worse overall health. Highlighting the importance of internalized stigma and depression has the potential to shape t…
Animated Analysis: Drawing Deeper Analytical Insights From Qualitative Data
While participant-created drawings in arts-based health research, used as a process of producing knowledge are well known, similar approaches with researcher-created drawings are less common. This article describes the journey of how researcher-created drawings as an arts-based analytical approach helped a novice researcher to draw deeper into the interpretive process. Emerging from a positivist paradigm, a proceduralist understanding of the qual…
Like being put on an ice floe and shoved away”: A qualitative study of the impacts of opioid-related policy changes on people who take opioids
The introduction of opioid-related policies had unintended consequences for people who take opioids. Potential measures for mitigating these consequences include ensuring that people who take opioids are involved in all facets of policy development and implementation, integrating peer workers into the care of these individuals, and respecting patient agency when decisions about pain management and opioid use are made
It's Hard Work: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Reconceptualizing "Work" in the Cancer Context
Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, "work" is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the "return to work" discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. Drawing on feminist political economy theory, we report on a qualitativ…
Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
Re-conceptualizing ‘impact’ in art-based health research
This article explores the notion of ‘impact’ in art-based health research (ABHR), and how we might re-conceptualize it through the kind of work ABHR ‘does’ in generating and disseminating knowledge. We explore ‘impact’ from a critical qualitative perspective, leveraging findings from a study based on interviews with ABHR researchers/artists/trainees. We focus on their reflections related to ‘impact’, and informed by our own experiences of produci…
Holding Firm: Power, Push-Back, and Opportunities in Navigating the Liminal Space of Critical Qualitative Health Research
Critical qualitative health researchers typically occupy and navigate liminal academic spaces and statuses, with one foot planted in the arts and social sciences and the other in biomedical science. We are at once marginalized and empowered, and this liminality presents both challenges and opportunities. In this article, we draw on our experiences of being (often the lone) critical qualitative health scholars on thesis advisory committees and dis…
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: Transcending Hegemonic Conventions
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
Experiences of work among people with disabilities who are HIV-positive in Zambia
This paper focuses on accounts of how having a disability and being HIV-positive influences experiences of work among 21 people (12 women, 9 men) in Lusaka, Zambia. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted in English, Bemba, Nyanja, or Zambian sign language. Descriptive and thematic analyses were conducted. Three major themes were generated. The first, a triple burden, describes the burden of having a disability, being HIV-positive, and…
Vocation in seventeenth-century France: The Catholic ethic and the spirit of etatisme
Max Weber famously argued that the ‘spirit of capitalism’ arose in part from a Protestant understanding of divine vocation in worldly careers. Similar discourses existed in Catholic Europe, but their details have hardly been explored. French Catholic writers, by the later seventeenth century, used a concept of secular vocation that was distinctive in its context, concerns and social implications. Their doctrine drew on deep roots in soteriology a…
"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer
Predicting length of stay out of hospital following lung resection using preoperative health status measures
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: Transcending Hegemonic Conventions
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer
Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
Holding Firm: Power, Push-Back, and Opportunities in Navigating the Liminal Space of Critical Qualitative Health Research
Critical qualitative health researchers typically occupy and navigate liminal academic spaces and statuses, with one foot planted in the arts and social sciences and the other in biomedical science. We are at once marginalized and empowered, and this liminality presents both challenges and opportunities. In this article, we draw on our experiences of being (often the lone) critical qualitative health scholars on thesis advisory committees and dis…
It's Hard Work: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Reconceptualizing "Work" in the Cancer Context
Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, "work" is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the "return to work" discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. Drawing on feminist political economy theory, we report on a qualitativ…
Animated Analysis: Drawing Deeper Analytical Insights From Qualitative Data
While participant-created drawings in arts-based health research, used as a process of producing knowledge are well known, similar approaches with researcher-created drawings are less common. This article describes the journey of how researcher-created drawings as an arts-based analytical approach helped a novice researcher to draw deeper into the interpretive process. Emerging from a positivist paradigm, a proceduralist understanding of the qual…
Predicting length of stay out of hospital following lung resection using preoperative health status measures
"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' in the context of primary bone cancer
Vocation in seventeenth-century France: The Catholic ethic and the spirit of etatisme
Max Weber famously argued that the ‘spirit of capitalism’ arose in part from a Protestant understanding of divine vocation in worldly careers. Similar discourses existed in Catholic Europe, but their details have hardly been explored. French Catholic writers, by the later seventeenth century, used a concept of secular vocation that was distinctive in its context, concerns and social implications. Their doctrine drew on deep roots in soteriology a…
Experiences of work among people with disabilities who are HIV-positive in Zambia
This paper focuses on accounts of how having a disability and being HIV-positive influences experiences of work among 21 people (12 women, 9 men) in Lusaka, Zambia. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted in English, Bemba, Nyanja, or Zambian sign language. Descriptive and thematic analyses were conducted. Three major themes were generated. The first, a triple burden, describes the burden of having a disability, being HIV-positive, and…
Arts-based health research and academic legitimacy: Transcending Hegemonic Conventions
Using the Canadian context as a case study, the research reported here focuses on in-depth qualitative interviews with 36 researchers, artists and trainees engaged in 'doing' arts-based health research (ABHR). We begin to address the gap in ABHR knowledge by engaging in a critical inquiry regarding the issues, challenges and benefits of ABHR methodologies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the tensions experienced regarding academic legitimacy …
Re-conceptualizing ‘impact’ in art-based health research
This article explores the notion of ‘impact’ in art-based health research (ABHR), and how we might re-conceptualize it through the kind of work ABHR ‘does’ in generating and disseminating knowledge. We explore ‘impact’ from a critical qualitative perspective, leveraging findings from a study based on interviews with ABHR researchers/artists/trainees. We focus on their reflections related to ‘impact’, and informed by our own experiences of produci…
Holding Firm: Power, Push-Back, and Opportunities in Navigating the Liminal Space of Critical Qualitative Health Research
Critical qualitative health researchers typically occupy and navigate liminal academic spaces and statuses, with one foot planted in the arts and social sciences and the other in biomedical science. We are at once marginalized and empowered, and this liminality presents both challenges and opportunities. In this article, we draw on our experiences of being (often the lone) critical qualitative health scholars on thesis advisory committees and dis…
Like being put on an ice floe and shoved away”: A qualitative study of the impacts of opioid-related policy changes on people who take opioids
The introduction of opioid-related policies had unintended consequences for people who take opioids. Potential measures for mitigating these consequences include ensuring that people who take opioids are involved in all facets of policy development and implementation, integrating peer workers into the care of these individuals, and respecting patient agency when decisions about pain management and opioid use are made
It's Hard Work: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to Reconceptualizing "Work" in the Cancer Context
Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, "work" is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the "return to work" discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. Drawing on feminist political economy theory, we report on a qualitativ…
Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings. This is further exacerbated by neoliberal notions of productivity, which offer very limited forms of assessment for different ways of producing knowledge or doing science differently. While qualitative researc…
Impact of experienced HIV stigma on health is mediated by internalized stigma and depression: Results from the people living with HIV stigma index in Ontario
We developed a mediation model to explain how HIV-related stigma negatively impacts health. We found that that enacted stigma, or experiences of prejudice or discrimination, can lead to internalized stigma, or internalization of negative thoughts regarding one's HIV status and/or increased depressive symptoms which then may lead to worse overall health. Highlighting the importance of internalized stigma and depression has the potential to shape t…
Animated Analysis: Drawing Deeper Analytical Insights From Qualitative Data
While participant-created drawings in arts-based health research, used as a process of producing knowledge are well known, similar approaches with researcher-created drawings are less common. This article describes the journey of how researcher-created drawings as an arts-based analytical approach helped a novice researcher to draw deeper into the interpretive process. Emerging from a positivist paradigm, a proceduralist understanding of the qual…
Elizabeth Koepping. 2020. Spousal Violence among World Christians: Silent Scandal
The cost of anticipating stigma: A longitudinal examination of HIV stigma and health
Levels of HIV stigma remain high, however there is a limited understanding around how different types of stigma interact to impact health. This study uses data from two time points to examine how enacted and internalized stigma lead to worse health through anticipated stigma as a mediator. We recruited 341 participants in Ontario, Canada to complete the HIV Stigma Index survey at baseline (t1) from September 2018 to August 2019 and follow up (t2)…
Considerations for the design of overdose education and naloxone distribution interventions: Results of a multi-stakeholder workshop
To create an naloxone distribution program in emergency departments, family practice and substance use treatment services, stigma is a central design consideration for training and naloxone kits. Design choices that reference the iconography, type, and form of materials associated with first aid have the potential to satisfy the need to de-stigmatize overdose response
Factors associated with Covid-19 vaccination in young children
The impact of determinants of health on the relationship between stigma and health in people living with HIV
Determinants of health are important drivers of health states, yet there is little work examining their role in the relationship between HIV stigma and health. This study uses moderation analysis to examine how determinants of health affect the relationship between enacted, internalized, and anticipated stigma and mental health. Quantitative data was collected on 337 participants in Ontario, Canada at baseline (t1) between August 2018 and Septemb…
Exploring the effects of Covid-19 outbreak control policies on services offered to people experiencing homelessness
The results of this project may inform context-specific emergency preparedness and response plans for COVID-19, future public health emergencies, and ongoing housing crises
The Role of Dimensions of Social Support in the Relationship Between Stigma and Mental Health: A Moderation Analysis
Sociology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works)