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Janet Curran
Researcher at Dalhousie University
Publications - 128
Citations - 2470
Janet Curran is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 96 publications receiving 1775 citations. Previous affiliations of Janet Curran include The Joanna Briggs Institute & Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre.
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Theories of behaviour change synthesised into a set of theoretical groupings: introducing a thematic series on the theoretical domains framework
TL;DR: The TDF provides a useful conceptual basis for assessing implementation problems, designing interventions to enhance healthcare practice, and understanding behaviour-change processes and two major strengths are its theoretical coverage and its capacity to elicit beliefs that could signify key mediators of behaviour change.
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Knowledge translation research: the science of moving research into policy and practice.
TL;DR: A description of the broad scope of knowledgetranslation research with a reflection on activities needed to further develop the science of knowledge translation is presented.
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Blame, Shame, and Lack of Support A Multilevel Study on Obesity Management
Sara F. L. Kirk,Sheri Price,Tarra L. Penney,Laurene Rehman,Renee F. Lyons,Helena Piccinini-Vallis,T. Michael Vallis,Janet Curran,Megan Aston +8 more
TL;DR: This research examined the experiences of individuals living with obesity, the perceptions of health care providers, and the role of social, institutional, and political structures in the management of obesity using feminist poststructuralism as the guiding methodology to identify three key themes.
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Understanding the Canadian adult CT head rule trial: use of the theoretical domains framework for process evaluation
Janet Curran,Jamie C. Brehaut,Jamie C. Brehaut,Andrea M. Patey,Martin H. Osmond,Martin H. Osmond,Ian G. Stiell,Ian G. Stiell,Jeremy M. Grimshaw,Jeremy M. Grimshaw +9 more
TL;DR: This proof of concept study demonstrates the use of the TDF as a guiding framework to design a retrospective theory-based process evaluation running alongside behaviour change intervention trials.
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A knowledge creation info-structure to acquire and crystallize the tacit knowledge of health-care experts
TL;DR: This paper presents a KM methodology, together with its computational implementation, to acquire the tacit knowledge possessed by health-care experts and represent the acquired tacit knowledge in a computational formalism that allows the reuse of stored knowledge to acquire tacit knowledge.