This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Investigating Barriers to Access and Delivery of Palliative Care for Persons with Dementia in London, Ontario, Emily M. Hill
Women's Stories of Breast Cancer: Sharing Information Through YouTube Video Blogs, Jenna Kressler
Examining Social Participation of Older Adults to Help Create an Age Friendly Community, Oksana Kubach
Are Patients at the Centre of Care?: A Qualitative Exploration of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1), Kori A. LaDonna
Navigating Life with HIV: The Lived Experiences of Youth Living with HIV, Tamara M M Landry
The Inter-relationship between Core Language Skills and Social Competence in Preschool Children, Clarissa Lau
Motivation and the 40-hour community involvement program: Their relationship to identity status in first year university students, Michael A. McDonald
Body Image and Quality of Life: An Exploration Among Individuals with Head and Neck Cancer, Melissa M. Nash
The effects of target spectrum, noise, and reverberation on auditory cue weighting in sound localization, Tran M. Nguyen
Verb Use in Parkinson's Disease, Swati S. Nikumb
The Relationship between Implicit and Explicit Processing in Statistical Language Learning, Nicolette B. Noonan
The Relationship of Plantar Sensation with Standing Balance and Gait Post-Stroke, Stephen Parsons
The role of rotator interval closure in Bankart lesion repair, Lauren L. Rainsford
Managing Uncertainty in Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease, Michael J. Ravenek
Characterizing Spoken Discourse in Individuals with Parkinson Disease Without Dementia, Angela C. Roberts
Adult Women's Perceived Facilitators, Barriers, and Health Benefits of Sustaining a Membership in a Commercial Fitness Facility, Shawn M.T. Slade
Food For Health: An Investigation of Infant Feeding Practices, Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Barriers and Facilitators, Jessica W. Smith
Effect of Reverberation Context on Spatial Hearing Performance of Normally Hearing Listeners, Renita E. Sudirga
Plastic Effect of Tetanic Stimulation on Auditory Evoked Potentials, Rajesh Tripathy
Canadian Post-Secondary Students, Stress, and Academic Performance – A Socio-Ecological Approach, L. Nicole Versaevel
Psychometric evaluation of self-report pain and disability measures for elbow disorders, Joshua Vincent
Examination of the Usability of the IPAD Among Older Adult Consumers, Mike J. Voumvakis
Releasing the self from the diagnostic straitjacket: Making meaning & creating understanding through dialogic autobiography, Marnie L. Wedlake
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Comparison of Speech Amplification Devices for Individuals with Parkinson's Disease and Hypophonia, Monika Andreetta
A Pilot Study To Investigate Concerns In Patients Undergoing Neck Dissection Surgery, Daniel Sundar Raj Arulananda Doss
Reassembling Knowledge Translation Through a Case of Autism Genomics: Multiplicity and Coordination Amidst Practiced Actor-Networks, Julia J. Bickford
"Oh, so we're not insured?": Exploring the impact of Ontario's Health Insurance Plan on new permanent residents and healthcare providers, Andrea Bobadilla
A Baseline Assessment of University Students’ Vitamin D Knowledge, Shaunessey Boland
Measuring the sixth vital sign: A descriptive analysis of distress in individuals with head and neck cancer and their caregivers, Catherine C. Bornbaum
Mitigating Risk Factors for Disease Progression in Patients with Varus Gonarthrosis, Angelo Boulougouris
Academic Achievement of Children and Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder with In-Depth Focus on Written Expression, Heather M. Brown
Examining the Shift in Occupational Identity after a Brain Injury, Mikelle Bryson-Campbell
Investigating the Effects of Custom Made Orthotics on Brain Forms: A Pilot Study, Lindsay Carey
Community Integration After In-Patient Rehabilitation for Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Pilot Study, Chandni Chadha
A Model to Reduce The Proportion of Inappropriate Referrals to Surgery for Patients With Osteoarthritis: A Pilot Study, Laura K. Churchill
Construing Natural Restorative Environments in Individuals Treated for Cancer, Adam M.B. Day
Re-cognizing Power in the Culture of Dementia Care Knowledge, Ryan T. DeForge
Exploring the Iranian-Canadian Family Experience of Dementia Caregiving: A Phenomenological Study, Sevil Deljavan
How Age Friendly is This City? Strategies for Assessing Age-Friendliness, Michelle Dellamora
Governing Occupation Through Constructions of Risk: The Case of the Aging Driver, Silke Dennhardt
Exploring parental experiences and decision-making processes following a fetal anomaly diagnosis, Ramona L. Fernandez
Language contributions to health related quality of life in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Katie M. Findlater
Short Term Treatment Effectiveness And Long Term Prognosis In Patients With Lateral Epicondylosis/Tennis Elbow, Pritika Gogia
Factors That Contribute To Adverse Events Involving Care- Dependent Community Dwelling Older Adults And Their Caregivers., Dorothy J. Gotzmeister
Effects of Coordinated Bilateral Hearing Aids and Auditory Training on Sound Localization, Iman Elsabah Ibrahim
Dual-Task Effects of Walking on Rate of Speech, Dayna Kathleen Jablecki
The Role of the Vestibular and Proprioceptive Systems in Processing Dynamic Sound Localization Cues, Janet Kim
Auditory Temporal Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment Compared to Same-Age Controls, Elaine Yuen Ling Kwok
Causes of Post Stroke Falls Along the Care Continuum: Implications for Improving Patient Safety, Mona Madady
Motivational Interviewing Via Co-Active Life Coaching as an Intervention for Tobacco Control, Tara Mantler
An Exploration of Early Childhood Education Students' Knowledge and Preparation to Facilitate Physical Activity for Preschoolers, Olivia Martyniuk
Effect of Concurrent Walking and Interlocutor Distance on Conversational Speech Intensity and Rate in Parkinson's Disease, Cassandra M. McCaig
Language in genetics research informed consent: The language gap and unrecognized miscommunication, Justin Morgenstern
Gait Retraining in Parkinson’s Disease: A Cognitive Cueing Approach, Stephanie J. Morrison
Addressing Conscientious Objection of Rural Canadian Nurses and Physicians, Natasha T. Morton
Alignment, Mass and Orthoses in Medial Compartment Knee Osteoarthritis, Rebecca Moyer
Resilience as health promotion in action: University students who grew up amid violence directed towards their mothers, Tatiana Murkin (Zdyb)
Word-Finding Difficulties: Exploring Tip-of-the-Tongue States in Young and Old Adults, Allison J. Partridge
The Impact of Social Integration on The Lived Experience of Resilience Among Women who Lived in Poverty During Childhood, Nedra R. Peter
The Relationship Between Quality of Parks and Playgrounds and Park-Based Physical Activity in Children, Hammad Ali Qazi
Prognosis and Movement Patterns in Patients After Rotator Cuff Repair, Jayaprakash Raman
The Effects of Virtual Rehabilitation Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Feasibility Study, Taylor L. Randall
Understanding First Nations Young Adults' Health Literacy, Ebony Rempel
Effect of fluid loss following hemodialysis on tibialis anterior muscle strength in people with end-stage renal disease, Anuradha Sawant
Short term sensory and vascular responses to physical agent modalities and exercise in healthy volunteers and patients with distal radius fracture., Shaguftha Shaik
Children At-Risk For Hearing Impairment: A Retrospective Study Of The Ontario Infant Hearing Program Population, Katherine M. Smith
Effect of Congenital Versus Acquired Varus on Patient-Reported Outcomes After High Tibial Osteotomy, Sherelle T. Solomon
The effect of articulation and word-meaning on gait and balance in people with Parkinson’s disease, Kevin Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Physical Therapy Following Shoulder Rotator Cuff Repair, Ravindiran Appunni
Exploring Pregnant Women’s Perceptions and Decision Making of Household Chemicals: Phthalates as a Model, Justin M. Ashley
Development and Evaluation of an Audiological Outcome Measure Guideline for Use with Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children, Marlene P. Bagatto
Sentence Recall in Monolingual and ELL with and without Parental Concerns about Language Development, Areej Mazin Balilah
Optimizing Physical Function Following Distal Radius Fracture, Siamak Bashardoust Tajali
Effect of Head Movement on Sound Localization in Real and Simulated Cochlear Implant Users, Kassandra-Anne H. Birtch
Properties and Applications of Sensory Outcome Measures in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Derek KM Cheung
Loudness Perception and Speech Intensity Control in Parkinson's Disease, Jenna Paula Clark
Motor Control of Exercise that Emphasizes Speed Post-stroke, Vicki L. Gray
The Effects of a Home Based Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Program on Balance Among Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease, Michelle L. Gu
Personal Constructs of Saudi Arabian Graduate Students Studying at a Large Canadian University: A Personal Construct Theory Approach, Eradah O. Hamad
A Profile of Canadians Over the Age of 65 Years Living with Coexisting Vision and Mobility Impairments: A Sequential Mixed Method Analysis, Jessica G. Huber-Wilhelm
How do parents use health information with the aid of a knowledge broker when living with and caring for their young children with cerebral palsy?, Stephanie E. Lagosky
The effect of multitalker background noise on speech intelligibility in Parkinson's disease and controls, Talia M. Leszcz
Understanding the Subjective Norms Surrounding Noise Exposure and Hearing Conservation in Children, Jill E. Lowther
Familiality of Auditory Evoked Potentials: Preliminary Investigation of the Auditory Brainstem Response and Late Latency Cortical Response, Matthew B. Lucas
Sexual Trafficking in the Canadian Context: Exploring the Political Landscape, Examining Discourse, and Identifying Health Issues among Women with Lived Experience, Hoda Malakouti-Nejad
Physical activity among Latino children in London, Ontario: An assessment of physical activity levels, sedentary behaviours, and physical activity-related barriers and facilitators, Gillian E. Mandich
Feasibility, Effectiveness, Costs and Patient Satisfaction Associated with a Web-based Follow-up Assessment Following Total Joint Arthroplasty, Jacquelyn Marsh
Speech Compensation to Formant Perturbations in English and Vietnamese Talkers, Linh L.T. Nguyen
Enacting Occupation and Identity: Perspectives of Children and Their Parents, Shanon K. Phelan