Gina Dimitropoulos
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 379150 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gina Dimitropoulos |
| PRENOMES | Gina |
| SOBRENOME | Dimitropoulos |
| ASSINATURA | DIMITROPOULOS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9487-0290 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Racial disparities in substance use among youth involved in bullying in Canada
This study investigates how the associations between bullying involvement (as a victim, bully, or bully-victim) and substance use (cigarette, alcohol, cannabis, and vaping) differ across racial identities among Canadian youth. Using 2021-2022 Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey (CSTADS) data, logistic regression analyses showed racial differences, with Black victims, bullies, or bully-victims having significantly higher odds of cig…
Becoming Invisible
Young adulthood is a critical period for identity formation, yet young adults with mental health–related disabilities often engage with care systems that erode rather than support selfhood. This qualitative study draws on critical realist metatheory, which aligns with interpretive inquiry while enabling layered explanation. Conducted in partnership with young adult co-researchers with lived experience of mental health–related disabilities from eq…
A qualitative study examining household context and parental perspectives on preschoolers’ digital media use guidelines
Evidence suggests that the uptake of pediatric guidelines for screen use is generally low, which highlights a need to better understand the familial factors shaping children’s digital media use. This study aimed to explore parents’ perspectives regarding digital media use guidelines, including the factors that influence adherence to recommendations. Semi-structured interviews with 28 parents of young children were analyzed using thematic analysis…
Non-medical opioid (NMO) use in Canadian adolescents
Service access for youth with neurodevelopmental disabilities transitioning to adulthood
Introduction: Youth with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDD) who are transitioning to adulthood often struggle with accessing services. This limited access can result in poorer health, reduced ability to perform daily activities and engage in independent living and decreased levels of participation in society. Despite Canada's commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, British Columbia (BC) youth with NDD face a…
Navigating the “crossroads”
This article navigates the critical crossroads facing contemporary social work, characterized by the schism between the “Empirical Highway” and “Postmodern/Critical Off-Ramp.” By exploring the evolution of scientific thought and its influence on social work—noting the adage that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, the article advocates for critical realism. This promising metatheory offers a “middle path,” avoiding the we…
Exploring Patient Understandings of Navigation Services Within Alberta's Healthcare System
INTRODUCTION: Patient navigation was first envisioned to assist marginalized cancer patients access timely healthcare services by identifying and addressing social barriers to care. While this understanding of patient navigation may still hold for a subgroup of programs today, its expansion over the past 30 years has resulted in a diverse set of interventions with distinct care settings, patient eligibility criteria, navigator training requiremen…
Validity evidence for the use of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale-25, and the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale in measurement-based ca…
There is evidence to support the use of these PROMs for MBC in child and adolescent mental health. However, further investigation is needed into response processes, internal structure, and to establish clinically meaningful thresholds to improve interpretability, and ensure the validity of their use
Measuring integration in “Integrated Youth Services” in Canada
Background: There are various conceptual models of integration in youth health care and wellness but challenges exist when implementing these tools or surveys and putting them into practice. We will generate dialogue and share our experiences using these models in the context of embedded research and evaluation programs. The aim of these programs is to measure the extent to which services and systems are integrated, and linking this with an under…
Mental Health Providers Perceptions and Experiences of Peer Support in Youth Mental Health Care
Background: Mental health providers play an integral role in youth mental health services, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental health concerns, and supporting recovery. Evidence shows mental health providers are challenged due to health system limitations and increased demands for services, resulting in long wait times and negatively impacting quality of care. To increase mental health service accessibility and mitigate diseng…
Service integration for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities with support needs and their families
Background: In alignment with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities commitments (1), government support and services are important in reducing barriers to social participation through access to services for children and youth with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) and their families (2). Research has demonstrated that children with NDD and their families face several challenges in navigating the fragmented l…
Developing a Conceptual Model of Compassion in Healthcare Transitions
Compassion stands as a fundamental element in pediatric healthcare. Compassionate care is critical in delivering treatments and also in shaping the holistic experience of patients and their families. Yet, a unified understanding of what constitutes compassion from the perspectives and preferences of pediatric patients and their families is unknown. In particular, the significance of compassionate care during transitions from pediatric to adult he…
Perceptions of Post-Secondary Peer Support by Student Providers
Background: Post-secondary aged youth (18-25 years) often experience new, or exacerbation of existing, mental health concerns with 1 in 5 having a diagnosable mental health issue. Peer support (support provided by an individual with similar lived experience) has been found to reduce stigma, increase engagement with care, and empower youth. Within the post-secondary context, peer support can fill gaps in services and provide unique supports to stu…
The Occupation of Youth Peer Support Workers Within an Integrated Youth Services Initiative
Youth peer support workers (YPSWs) use lived/living experience to provide support. However, there is a knowledge gap about service impact on YPSWs themselves. To understand (1) impact being a YPSW has on well-being, (2) experience of being a YPSW, and (3) barriers and facilitators of being a YPSW. Eighteen YPSWs at an integrated youth services (IYS) initiative in British Columbia, Canada, completed semi-structured interviews in fall 2023. Intervi…
Identifying ‘Where’ and ‘How’ Peer Support for Youth is Integrated into Community-Based Mental Health Services
Are we out of the woods yet? Youth-developed recommendations on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic
Findings indicate the need for stronger partnerships between schools, community-based MHSU services, and hospitals, and job opportunities that pay a living wage
Investigating changes in vape use among Canadian youth from 2014 to 2022
Youth-developed recommendations on public health planning for future pandemics or public health emergencies
For Canada to move forward in a relevant, efficient, and ethically sound manner, decisions must be guided by the population that these decisions affect. These recommendations can be used to guide Canada's strategies and policies to prepare for future public health emergencies and pandemics, prioritizing the needs of youth, families/caregivers, and communities
Longitudinal effects of neighbourhoods’ material and social deprivation on psychological distress of adults in Canada
Giving, Receiving, Reciprocating
Tipping the balance
Establishing Effective Patient Engagement Through a Terms of Reference to Foster Inclusivity and Empowerment in Research
The Walls Had Been Built”
Public health measures (PHMs) implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic introduced sudden changes to adolescents' everyday routines and required adolescents to repeatedly adapt their routines at a critical developmental stage. While meant to protect physical health, the PHMs destabilized mental health. Using a youth-engaged approach and interpretive description, this study explored adolescents' perspectives on their mental health in relation to th…
Shifting the Resilience Narrative
Resilience has been championed as important for mitigating stressors and challenges experienced by students during post-secondary education, as evidenced by the abundance of programs aimed at enhancing student resilience. Despite growing attention to resilience, there continues to be a lack of consensus about the definition or operationalization of the concept. Even less is known about how to foster resilience in the post-secondary context, espec…
Key Considerations in Integrating a Peer Support Model Within Psychiatric Emergency Services at a Canadian Pediatric Emergency Department
Are we out of the woods yet? Youth-developed recommendations on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic
Findings indicate the need for stronger partnerships between schools, community-based MHSU services, and hospitals, and job opportunities that pay a living wage
Role-Playing
Field practicum plays a central role in social work education by socializing social work students to the profession and facilitating the integration of theoretical knowledge with skill development. Students can be apprehensive about beginning practicum and often lack adequate formal preparation for the practicum experience. This study evaluates role-playing as a prepracticum preparatory activity for foundation year MSW students. Focus groups were…
I would love to have online support but I don't trust it”
This qualitative study aims to explore how individuals who are seeking help and support for eating disorders use various forms of technology. Fifteen participants, recruited from an Eating Disorder Program in a hospital setting and an eating disorder community support centre, voluntarily participated in focus groups and individual interviews in 2015. The authors used thematic analysis to code and analyse the qualitative data, and three themes wer…
Role-Playing
Field practicum plays a central role in social work education by socializing social work students to the profession and facilitating the integration of theoretical knowledge with skill development. Students can be apprehensive about beginning practicum and often lack adequate formal preparation for the practicum experience. This study evaluates role-playing as a prepracticum preparatory activity for foundation year MSW students. Focus groups were…
Adapting Descriptive Psychological Phenomenology to Include Dyadic Interviews
Dyadic interviews are an approach to qualitative data collection designed to understand the meaning pairs of individuals make from experiences. The greatest benefit of dyadic interviews, and perhaps a reason for their gaining momentum in the literature, is that they encourage participants to interact, resulting in detailed and complex descriptions of phenomena. However, dyadic interviews pose challenges to qualitative researchers. Researchers mus…
Transitioning to adulthood
“My Whole World Fell Apart”
This was the first study to examine the experience of parents who discover their child was living with anorexia nervosa (AN), thus fulfilling a critical gap in the eating disorder literature. Gadamerian hermeneutic inquiry was the guiding philosophy and method used to investigate this topic. Dialogues with parents revealed the ambiguity inherent within discovery; the isolation, betrayal, and loss felt by parents; and the complicated family dynami…
Communities of practice
The majority of healthcare professionals regularly witness fragility, suffering, pain and death in their professional lives. Such experiences may increase the risk of burnout and compassion fatigue, especially if they are without self-awareness and a healthy work environment. Acquiring a deeper understanding of vulnerability inherent to their professional work will be of crucial importance to face these risks. From a relational ethics perspective…
Impending Transition From Pediatric to Adult Health Services
Background: There is a dearth of research that identifies pediatric to adult health care transition practices that yield positive outcomes for young people with eating disorders (EDs). Further, adolescent and caregiver perspectives are poorly understood and underrepresented in the literature. The purpose of this study, focused on the impending transition from pediatric to adult health services, was twofold: (a) to identify adolescent and caregive…
Role Plays to Enhance Readiness for Practicum
Although field education is considered the signature pedagogy of social work education, there is a paucity of research examining how Bachelors of Social Work (BSW) and foundation year-Masters of Social Work (FY-MSW) students perceive strategies designed to prepare them for field placement. To enhance readiness for practicum, an interactive role play activity was introduced to BSW and FY-MSW students, and their perspectives of the activity were el…
Pragmatism as a paradigm for patient‐oriented research
A Qualitative Description of Resident Physicians’ Understanding of Child Maltreatment
Child maltreatment (CM) is a public health problem with devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities. Resident physicians have varied formal education in CM, and report feeling inadequately trained in identifying and responding to CM. The purpose of this study is to explore residents' understanding of the impacts of CM, and their perceptions of their role in recognizing and responding to CM to better understand their educational …
Adverse childhood experiences
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including maltreatment and family dysfunction, is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and disability. With a large body of international literature on ACEs having emerged over the past 25 years, it is timely to now synthetize the available evidence to estimate the global prevalence of ACEs and, through a series of moderator analyses, determine which populations are at higher risk. …
Transition readiness of youth with co‐occurring chronic health and mental health conditions
BACKGROUND: A large proportion of youth with chronic conditions have mental health comorbidities. However, the effect of these comorbidities on paediatric-adult transition readiness, and the relevance of widely used tools for measuring transition readiness, are unknown. OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to describe and explore the transition readiness of youth with co-occurring chronic health and mental health conditions using a combin…
Examining the experiences of pediatric mental health care providers during the early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic
This study gave voice to mental health providers as they provided continuity of care throughout the uncertain early months of the pandemic. The results provide insight into the impact times of crisis have on mental health providers, as well as provide practical considerations for the future in terms of supervision and feedback mechanisms to validate experiences
Association between childhood adversities and premature and potentially avoidable mortality in adulthood
The findings imply that the psychological sequelae of childhood physical abuse and being sent away from home and subsequent uptake of adverse health behavior may lead to increased risk of potentially avoidable mortality. The potential mediators identified offer directions for future research to perform causal mediation analyses with suitable data and identify interventions aimed at preventing premature mortality due to potentially avoidable cause…
I have eight different files at eight different places”
Introduction: Most of the existing research on the transition from pediatric-to-adult care has focused on healthcare and social care settings as a homogenous group of services, without a specific focus on community or rehabilitation services. As such, the facilitators and barriers to implementing and sustaining these services during the transition from pediatric to adult care are not well established. An understanding of such factors may help to …
Establishing Effective Patient Engagement Through a Terms of Reference to Foster Inclusivity and Empowerment in Research
The Walls Had Been Built”
Public health measures (PHMs) implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic introduced sudden changes to adolescents' everyday routines and required adolescents to repeatedly adapt their routines at a critical developmental stage. While meant to protect physical health, the PHMs destabilized mental health. Using a youth-engaged approach and interpretive description, this study explored adolescents' perspectives on their mental health in relation to th…
Shifting the Resilience Narrative
Resilience has been championed as important for mitigating stressors and challenges experienced by students during post-secondary education, as evidenced by the abundance of programs aimed at enhancing student resilience. Despite growing attention to resilience, there continues to be a lack of consensus about the definition or operationalization of the concept. Even less is known about how to foster resilience in the post-secondary context, espec…
Key Considerations in Integrating a Peer Support Model Within Psychiatric Emergency Services at a Canadian Pediatric Emergency Department
Service access for youth with neurodevelopmental disabilities transitioning to adulthood
Introduction: Youth with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDD) who are transitioning to adulthood often struggle with accessing services. This limited access can result in poorer health, reduced ability to perform daily activities and engage in independent living and decreased levels of participation in society. Despite Canada's commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, British Columbia (BC) youth with NDD face a…
Navigating the “crossroads”
This article navigates the critical crossroads facing contemporary social work, characterized by the schism between the “Empirical Highway” and “Postmodern/Critical Off-Ramp.” By exploring the evolution of scientific thought and its influence on social work—noting the adage that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, the article advocates for critical realism. This promising metatheory offers a “middle path,” avoiding the we…
Exploring Patient Understandings of Navigation Services Within Alberta's Healthcare System
INTRODUCTION: Patient navigation was first envisioned to assist marginalized cancer patients access timely healthcare services by identifying and addressing social barriers to care. While this understanding of patient navigation may still hold for a subgroup of programs today, its expansion over the past 30 years has resulted in a diverse set of interventions with distinct care settings, patient eligibility criteria, navigator training requiremen…
Validity evidence for the use of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale-25, and the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale in measurement-based ca…
There is evidence to support the use of these PROMs for MBC in child and adolescent mental health. However, further investigation is needed into response processes, internal structure, and to establish clinically meaningful thresholds to improve interpretability, and ensure the validity of their use
Measuring integration in “Integrated Youth Services” in Canada
Background: There are various conceptual models of integration in youth health care and wellness but challenges exist when implementing these tools or surveys and putting them into practice. We will generate dialogue and share our experiences using these models in the context of embedded research and evaluation programs. The aim of these programs is to measure the extent to which services and systems are integrated, and linking this with an under…
Mental Health Providers Perceptions and Experiences of Peer Support in Youth Mental Health Care
Background: Mental health providers play an integral role in youth mental health services, providing assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental health concerns, and supporting recovery. Evidence shows mental health providers are challenged due to health system limitations and increased demands for services, resulting in long wait times and negatively impacting quality of care. To increase mental health service accessibility and mitigate diseng…
Psychology (28 obras) · Medicine (24 obras) · Psychiatry (17 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Nursing (13 obras) · Qualitative research (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (11 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Health care (10 obras)