The Statistical Consulting and Survey Research Unit has worked with many new and established researchers and academics in contribution to their research findings. This page contains a few selected publications highlighting some of the projects the SCSRU was involved with. You may see us being referenced by one of our former names: Statistical Consulting and Collaborative Research Unit, or Survey Research Centre.
Books
Bramadat, P., Killen, P. O. C., & Wilkins-Laflamme, S. (Eds.). (2022). Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest. UBC Press.
Chaiton, M., Diemert, L., Zhang, B., & Bondy, S. (2016). Busting Myths About Smoking Cessation: A Synthesis of Population-Level Findings from the Ontario Tobacco Survey. Toronto: Ontario Tobacco Research Unit.
Articles
Borkenhagen, D., Grant, E., Mazumder, R., Negami, H. R., Srikantharajah, J., & Ellard, C. (2021). The effect of COVID-19 on parks and greenspace use during the first three months of the pandemic – A survey study. Cities & Health, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2021.1963646
Buttazzoni, & Minaker, L. (2022). Associations between adolescent mental health and pedestrian- and transit-oriented urban design qualities: Evidence from a national-level online Canadian survey. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098022113831
Cardwell, F. S., Clarke, A. E., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Investigating self‐reported food allergy prevalence in Waterloo Region, Canada. The Canadian Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12800
Cichocki, W., Kaminskaia, S. & Hagar, L. (2023). Regional variation in articulation rate in French spoken in Canada. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–20 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000154
Clarke, A. E., Elliott, S. J., St Pierre, Y., Soller, L., La Vieille, S., & Ben-Shoshan, M. (2020). Temporal trends in prevalence of food allergy in Canada. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice, 8(4), 1428–1430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2019.10.021
Houle, S., & MacKeigan, L. (2017). Home care pharmacy practice in Canada: A cross-sectional survey of services provided, remuneration, barriers, and facilitators. Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, 70(4), 294–300. https://doi.org/10.4212/cjhp.v70i4.1680
Hussein, R., He, Z., Bareham, J., Patel, T., Killeen, R. & Grindrod, K. (2022). Evaluating the effectiveness of the computer based education platform, Pharmacy5in5, on pharmacists' knowledge of anticholinergic toxicity using a randomized controlled trial. Pharmacy, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10010008
Hussein, R., Killeen, R., He, Z. & Grindrod, K. (2021). Assessing pharmacists' knowledge and compliance with narcotic inventory management using a computer-based educational platform. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 29(3), 265–270. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riab013
Kirkham, Shorey, C. L., Iaboni, A., Quirt, H., Grigorovich, A., Astell, A., Lin, E., & Maxwell, C. J. (2022). Staff perceptions of the consequences of COVID‐19 on quality of dementia care for residents in Ontario long‐term care homes. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 37(6). https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5725
MarshallFarrarMasseyThorneWuBui, T. (2023). In All Fairness: A Meta-Analysis of the Tax Fairness–Tax Compliance Literature. Behavioral Research in Accounting, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.2308/BRIA-2022-040
McCrory, Vanderlee, L., White, C. M., Reid, J. L., & Hammond, D. (2016). Knowledge of recommended calorie intake and influence of calories on food selection among Canadians. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 48(3), 199–207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2015.12.012
Meyer, S., & Lum, R. (2017). Explanations for not receiving the seasonal influenza vaccine: An Ontario Canada based survey. Journal of Health Communication, 22(6), 506–514. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2017.1312720
Tetui, M., Grindrod, K., Waite, N., VanderDoes, J. & Taddio, A. (2022). Integrating the CARD (Comfort Ask Relax Distract) system in a mass vaccination clinic to imporve the experience of individuals during COVID-19 vaccination: a pre-post implementation study. Hum Vaccin Immunother, 18(5). https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2089500
Thompson, M. E., Fong, G. T., Boudreau, C., Driezen, P., Li, G., Gravely, S., Cummings, K. M., Heckman, B. W., O'Connor, R., Thrasher, J. F., Nahhas, G., Borland, R., Yong, H. H., McNeill, A., Hitchman, S. C., & Quah, A. C. K. (2019). Methods of the ITC four country smoking and vaping survey, Wave 1 (2016). Addiction, 114(S1), 6–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14528
Wilkins-Laflamme, S. (2022). And then there were none: Regional dynamics of non-religious identities, beliefs and practices among Canadian millennials. Studies in Religion. https://doi.org/10.1177/00084298221102926