Poster presentations

Trajectories of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Recovery: A Scoping Review 

Vladyslav Shein, Abel Torres-Espin 

Exploring Cultural Perspectives on Mental Well-Being and Support Services: Insights from African and Caribbean Black, Economic Immigrants in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region 

Ehinomen Oko-Oboh, Charity Oga-Omenka 

Cross-sectional analysis of cannabis use at work in the United States: differences by occupational risk level and state-level cannabis laws   

Ava Kucera, David Hammond 

Exploring Menopause: Beliefs, Perceptions, and Experiences of Immigrant Punjabi Women in Peel 

Tanveer Randhawa, Elena Neiterman 

The Intersection of Embodiment and Healthcare Relationships in Women’s Emergency Care Decisions: A Scoping Review 

Ailin Jalili, Mya Clarke, Tithi Joshi, Elena Neiterman 

Exploring PT’s Clinic’s Management of Injured Workers Patients from the New MSK Program from Ontario. 

Peining Li, Ellen MacEachen 

SynPrivacy: A Privacy Evaluation Framework for Synthetic Data Generation Models in Healthcare 

Bing Hu, Asma Bahamyirou, Yixin Li, Helen Chen 

Bold Sky: Co-designing a Gender-Transformative Game for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention   

Veen Wong, Chris McNab, Laura Wallace Jarvis, James R. Wallace 

AI-Driven Suicide Detection: A Comparative Study of Logistic Regression, BERT, and Few-Shot Learning for Text Classification 

Saba Oji, Dr. Helen Chen, Dr. James Wallace  

Thematic Analysis Toolkit for Human-LLM Collaboration

Ansh Sharma, James Wallace 

Socioeconomic Gradients and Psychopathology in Children with Chronic Physical Illness 

Jothi Khaira, Dr. John Mielke, Dr. Martin Cooke, Dr. Mark Ferro 

Exploring the link between functional social support, marital status and memory from the perspective of community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults: A qualitative study 

Paniz Haghighi, Samantha B. Meyer, Suzanne L. Tyas, Leilei Zeng, Mark Oremus 

Organismic Resilience Indicators as Predictors of Acute Infection and Post-COVID-19 Condition

Elizabeth L. Wang & Peter A. Hall

The nature and extent of migrants, immigrants, and refugees’ trust in the social institutions of their host countries: A scoping review 

Helena Godinho Nascimento, Sultan Abdulkarim, Geetika Arikati and Samantha B. Meyer 

Mental Health, Ill Health, and Perceived Changes in Health in Caregivers and Children with Physical Illness 

Saba Soltani, Samantha Meyer, Mark Ferro 

Examining the association between physical activity and sleep duration trajectories in a cohort of adolescents in Canada: a longitudinal study 

Nicole Nguyen, Scott T. Leatherdale 

Envisioning the impact of mass migration, geopolitical conflict, climate change, & trust on foodborne illness risk among refugees in Canada in 2045 

Ashvini Gulasingam, Vanessa Schweizer, Samantha Meyer, Irene Lambraki, and Shannon E. Majowicz 

Exploring food insecurity as a risk factor for eight enteric infections in Ontario, Canada, 2019-2022: A Multilevel Ecological Study 

Jacob Hammond, Csaba Varga, Hannah Neufeld, and Shannon E. Majowicz 

Older Adults’ Views of Foodborne Illness and Food Safety 

Kanika Sarwal, Heather Keller, Ken Diplock, and Shannon E. Majowicz 

Investigating the integration of sustainable food initiatives in healthcare institutions in Ontario, Canada:  A grey literature scoping review 

Lisa L. Blank, Alyssa D. Milano, Lesley Andrade, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick 

Investigating the Extent and Moral Acceptability of Unhealthy Food Advertisements on Ghanaian TV Stations 

Silver Nanema & Amos Laar 

Functional social support as a mediator of the association between clinical anxiety and executive function in middle-aged and older adults: A moderated mediation analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging 

Cindy Wang, Mark Oremus, Nancy E. Newall, Suzanne L. Tyas 

A natural experiment comparing Canadian youth’s self-reported exposure to unhealthy food marketing by child-directed marketing regulation presence: findings from the International Food Policy Study 

Liza Boyar, Christine White, Vicki Rynard, Sharon Kirkpatrick, Lana Vanderlee, Jean Adams, Monique Potvin Kent, David Hammond

“It’s not just the drugs. It’s the whole structure of your day, it’s the structure of your life”: The potential use of digital technologies to enhance opioid agonist treatment in rural and remote communities of British Columbia, Canada 

Amreetha Jayathilake, Kate Hodgson, Manal Mansoor, Kim Markel, Geoff Bardwell 

What is Known from the Qualitative Literature About Built Environment Factors That Affect Overdose? A Scoping Review 

Rachel A. Deshpande, Meya A. Jurkus, Geoff Bardwell 

Analyzing Public Discourse on Supervised Injection Site Closures in Ontario 

Nauman Shakeel, Fahad Talebi, Genevieve Lee, Carly Wheelans, Abu Yousha Mohammad Abdullah 

Evaluating the Feasibility of Large Language Models (LLMs) as Independent Coding Agents in Health Qualitative Analysis 

Mikayla Neeb, Edson Takei 

Esports Dataset (Reddit 2007-09 to 2023-12) 

Ansh Sharma, James Wallace 

The mediating effect of depressive symptoms on the association between religious participation and memory in middle-aged and older adults 

Bonita Nath, Yeying Zhu, Colleen J. Maxwell, Charity Oga-Omenka, Mark Oremus 

Project summary: Addressing chronic disease challenges among seniors in Alberta’s Zone 5 

Aimen Zehra 

Predicting Emotional States from Sleep Quality: A Data-Driven Analysis Using a Mobile Health App 

Francesco Zaffino, Jasleen Kaur 

Health system challenges faced by youth in foster care in Ontario, Canada: A qualitative analysis 

Dane Mauer-Vakil, Alana Butler, Claire Scruby, Suzie Brookes, Lindsay Morcom, Imaan Bayoumi 

Survey Development for Evaluation of Supervised Consumption Sites in Ottawa 

Abigail Law 

Public health profile of Singapore: Addressing aging, chronic disease, and health inequities 

Arya Joshi 

The Opioid Crisis in Vancouver, British Columbia 

Nuzhat R. Namiha 

Examining the Protective Affects of Lithium Against Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation in Hippocampal Slices of Sprague-Dawley Rats

Andrew Naoum, John G. Mielke

Co-adaptation of the Dementia Lifestyle Intervention for Getting Healthy Together (DELIGHT) Program for South Asian Communities

Anusha Kathiravel, Laura Middleton

Assessing the Physical, Mental & Psychosocial Experiences of Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer During Pregnancy: A Netnography

Aruvi Kulamohan, Elena Neiterman

Exploring the Effectiveness of Role-Playing Games in Youth Group Therapy: Clinicians’ Perspectives

Averyl Bender, Jennifer Yessis

Older Adults and Smart Home Devices: A Legal Critique of Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Agreements of Voice-Activated Smart Home Devices.

Catherine Maddock, Cosmin Munteanu 

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Interviewer Training Program

Cathleen Blanchard, Kelly Anthony

Barriers to Accessing Primary Care Among Immigrant Older Adults in Canada and the United States

Chessie Li, Elena Neiterman

Who is Eating at School? Trends in Canadian School Food Program Awareness and Participation Between 2019 and 2023

Emily Sakai, David Hammond

Understanding the relationship between depression and smoking cessation measures among adults who regularly smoke cigarettes: Findings from the 2023 ITC Korea Survey

Hanna Kang, Geoffrey Fong

Investigating the quality of RCTs studying nutritional interventions of frailty

Malak Tawfik, Mark Oremus

Exploring the Potential of Vitamin E to Alleviate Symptoms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Scoping Review

Manal Abbasi, Jennifer Yessis

Investigating Pregnant Persons’ Knowledge of Placental Complications and Its Influence on Their Confidence in Prenatal Care

Naomi Skye Clarkson, Diane Williams

Factors Shaping the Well-Being of South Asian International Students in the Kitchener-Waterloo Area

Rajnandini Ganguli, Elena Neiterman

The Social and Cognitive Impact of Assistive Robotic Devices on Children

Rawan Miznazi, Brandon J DeHart

Cops and Youth Community Ownership Program Evaluation and the Impact of Participant Mental Health

Simone Douglas-Blaize, Kelly Anthony