IPALS Research
Recent Acheivements of IPALS Team
IPALS Funded Projects
IPALS provides two types of funding support; (1) student support, and (2) pilot project funding.
Student Support
2006
Carol Murphy, DC MSc Candidate
Topic: Factors affecting children’s health while working/playing at computers
Supervisor: Dr. Joan Stevenson, Queen’s University
2005
Benjamin Barton, PhD
Topic: Identifying risk factors in the etiology of children’s pedestrian injuries
Supervisor: Dr. Barbara Morrongiello, University of Guelph
Lauren Griffith, PhD candidate
Topic: Understanding the relationship between workplace mechanical
exposures and low back injury using individual participant
meta-analysis
Supervisor: Dr. Harry Shannon, McMaster University
Pilot Project Funding
2006
Principal Investigator: Anna Sawka, MD
Investigators: A. Papaioannou, MD, MSc, S. Straus, MD, MSc, J.D. Adachi, MD, L. Thabane, PhD, P. Raina, PhD, A. Gafni, PhD
Project Title: Strategies for hip fracture prevention in Canadian nursing homes: Survey of Canadian geriatrician opinions
Principal Investigator: Karen Beattie, PhD
Investigators: R. Bobba MD, MSc, A. Cividino MD, A. Papaioannou MD MSc
Project Title: Validation of the GALS (Gait, Arms, Legs, Spine) examination for use by family physicians in primary care
Principal Investigator: Liza Stathokostas, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Investigators: P. Raina, PhD, T. Vandervoort, PhD, and C. Fitzgerald, B.P.H.E, BEd
Project Title: An examination of exercise-related injuries in a sample
of older adults attending a community-based older adult fitness
facility.
Investigators: Lina Santaguida PhD, Karen Szala-Meneok PhD
Development and pilot testing of an evidence-based education training
module to prevent low back injuries in entry level healthcare workers.
Alison Macpherson, PhD
An examination of the broad determinants of health and injuries to child pedestrian and bicyclist injuries
(IPALS)
2005
Principal Investigator: A. Sawka, MD
Investigators: A. Papaioannou, MD, J. Ranford, MA, JD Adachi, MD, L.
Thebane, PhD, R. Goeree, MSc, P. Raina, PhD, A. Gafni, PhD
Project Title: What are the beliefs and attitudes of administrators
and nursing staff in long-term care facilities to hip protectors?
Principal Investigator: D. Fiissel, PhD candidate
Investigators: A. Howard, MD
Project Title: Parental thresholds for injury acceptability on school playgrounds
2004
Principal Investigator: L. Olsen, PhD
Investigators: I. Pike, PhD, J. Bottroff, PhD
Project Title: Understanding Mothers’ Efforts to Safeguard Children in the Home Environment.
Principal Investigator: C. Breslin, PhD
Investigator: H. Shannon, PhD
Project Title: Systematic review of risk factors for work injury among youth
Recent Acheivements of IPALS Team
Grants Awarded
A.M. Sawka, A. Cheung, A. Cranney, A. Gafni, A. Papaioannou, S. Straus, L. Thabane.(2007)
Strategies for prevention of hip fractures in elderly nursing home
residents Principal CIHR Knowledge Translation - Research Syntheses
Competition $89,000
Morrongiello B, Pickett W, Breslin FC, Marlenga B, Barton B. (2006).
Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Type of grant: Team Planning and Development Grant
Project title: Supervision influences on unintentional pediatric
injury in three high-risk contexts (home, work, and farm settings):
From etiology to intervention.
Breslin FC, MacEachen E, Shannon H, Morrongiello B. (2005)
Agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Type of grant: Request for applications on “New perspectives in gender and health”
Project title: Work injuries among adolescents: Towards a gendered conceptual framework.
Morrongiello BA, Barton BK ($59,037 3 YR) CIHR
Advancing research methods, knowledge of injury etiology, and prevention efforts in pediatric pedestrian injury research
Breslin FC, MacEachen E, Shannon H, Morrongiello B
($50,000 1
YR)CIHR
“Work injuries among adolescents: Towards a gendered conceptual framework.”
Pickett W, Dosman J, Brison RJ, Marlenga B, Day L, Hagel L, Crowe T, Biem J, Pahwa P ($1,184,650 5 YR) CIHR
Saskatchewan Farm Injury Cohort Study
Pickett W, Janssen I, Craig W, Boyce W ($393,356 4 YR) CIHR
Risk behaviour and injury study in Canadian youth
Macarthur, C
Falls in young children: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors and Interventions. City of Toronto Public Health ($33,000 1YR))
Team Planning & Dev. Grants-Toward Enhanced Quality of Life through injury prevention. Competition Results 2006
Howard, Andrew W, Children's traffic and road injury prevention (TRIP) team $98,083
Morrongiello, Barbara A, Supervision influences on unintentional pediatric injury in three high-risk contexts (home, work and farm settings): From etiology to intervention $100,000
Pike, Ian, MacPherson, Alison, Canadian injury indicators development team: Children and youth, $98,700
News
- Upcoming Injury Related Conferences are available via the links page.
- The 2007 Canadian Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion Conference
November 11-13, 2007
Toronto, Ontario
injuryresearch.bc.ca - 9th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
March 15-18, 2008
Merida, Mexico
safety2008mx.info/ing/