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Year Funded: 2025

Optimizing psychological injury assessments for workers' compensation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of validity, reliability, and occupational applicability

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Year Funded: 2025

Enhancing psychological safety in return-to-work: Addressing psychological workplace concerns for sustainable employment

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Year Funded: 2025

Opportunities and challenges for minority language speakers navigating WCB

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Occupational Disease, Injury and Health Services

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  • Year Funded: 2022

    Respiratory Protective Equipment: Development of an Easy Method to Detect and Locate Leaks and Assess the Fit of the Faceseal Using Infrared Imaging

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    Keywords:
    Équipement de protection des voies respiratoires, dispositif d’étanchéité faciale, Imagerie infrarouge
  • Year Funded: 2022

    The Impact of Using an Evidence-Based Shoulder Clinical Pathway for WCB Patients with Rotator Cuff Related Pathology

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    Keywords:
    Coiffe des rotateurs, épaule, protocole clinique fondé sur des données probantes, données probantes, décisions de traitement
  • Year Funded: 2022

    Evaluation of Evidence-Based Interventions for Partial-Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears Within a Best Evidence Synthesis Framework

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    Keywords:
    Coiffe des rotateurs, déchirures partielles de la coiffe des rotateurs, épaule, traitement, données probantes
  • Year Funded: 2022

    Rapid Review and Recommendations on Telehealth Treatments of Psychological Disorders

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    Keywords:
    Télésanté, trouble psychologique, traitement psychologique, santé mentale, examen de la documentation, prestation de service à distance
  • Year Funded: 2022

    Social Inequalities in Personal Care Workers’ Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors

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    Keywords:
    Inégalités sociales, Préposé.es aux soins personnels, Perturbateurs endocriniens
  • Year Funded: 2022

    Acceptability, Acceptance and Assessment of Exoskeletons in the Agri-Food Sector: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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    Keywords:
    troubles musculosquelettiques, exosquelettes
  • Year Funded: 2025

    Feasibility and effectiveness of early psychoeducation intervention programs for psychologically injured first responders and their spouses/partners: A return-to-work small sample controlled trial study

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  • Year Funded: 2024

    Feasibility and acceptability of an evidence-informed brief virtual intervention to reduce perceptions of injustice following work injury

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  • Year Funded: 2024

    Evaluating the effectiveness and functional outcomes of treatment options for distal biceps brachii tendon ruptures

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  • Year Funded: 2024

    Research ExaMining the Opinions and Views Associated with orthopaedic impLant removal (REMOVAL) study

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  • Year Funded: 2018

    Ten Year Follow-Up of Non-Operatively Treated Rotator Cuff Patients

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    Keywords:
    Coiffe des rotateurs, suivi à long terme, résultats, traitement non chirurgical
  • Year Funded: 2017

    Effectiveness of Treatments for Traumatic Psychological Injury in a Workers’ Compensation Context

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    Keywords:
    Lésion psychologique traumatique, TSPT, évaluation de traitement, examen systématique, entrevues avec les intervenants

Compensation, Disability Management and Return to Work

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  • Year Funded: 2024

    Predicting return to work in adults following concussion

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  • Year Funded: 2024

    Assessing the efficacy of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in gauging the effectiveness of Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) initiatives and forecasting return-to-work outcomes

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  • Year Funded: 2024

    Pragmatic implementation of a walking aid skills training program to prevent secondary harms

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  • Year Funded: 2023

    Epidemiology of perilunate injuries in Alberta

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  • Year Funded: 2023

    Effectiveness of self-help interventions to reduce work disability: A rapid mixed methods systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies

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  • Year Funded: 2023

    Return-to-work of Alberta nurses after operational stress injury: Contextualization and socialization of a pilot reintegration program through a mixed-methods study

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Changing Nature of Work and Work Environment

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  • Year Funded: 2017

    Perceptions and experiences of trauma within undergraduate nursing education

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    Keywords:
    traumatisme en milieu de travail SSPT, infirmiers/infirmières, stress, resilience
  • Year Funded: 2016

    Health, Wellbeing and Extended Working Life (IWH Project 2260)

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    Keywords:
    older workers (aging), labour market experiences
  • Year Funded: 2015

    Literature Review of Policies and Practices on the Accommodation of Persons with Visible Disabilities in the Workplace (IWH Project 3180)

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    Keywords:
    systematic review, work disability
  • Year Funded: 2015

    Developing a Gender/Sex-sensitive Understanding of how the Psychosocial Work Environment is related to Chronic Disease (IWH Project 1315)

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    Keywords:
    chronic disease, labour market experiences
  • Year Funded: 2014

    Gender Differences in Chronic Disease Risk arising from the Psychosocial Work Environment (IWH Project 1315)

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    Keywords:
    chronic disease, labour market experiences, epidemiology
  • Year Funded: 2014

    Examining Gender/Sex Differences in Work and Health (IWH Project 1310)

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    Keywords:
    epidemiology, work injury, chronic disease, vulnerable workers

Transferring Research Knowledge to the Workplace

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  • Year Funded: 2018

    De-Implementing Low Value Care: A Research Program of the Choosing Wisely Canada Implementation Research Network

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    Keywords:
    Soins de faible valeur, science de l’application, essais cliniques, essais préopératoires, imagerie
  • Year Funded: 2018

    Development of strategies in order to control the contamination level in pools from disinfection by-products

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    Keywords:
    sous-produits de désinfection, piscines intérieures, contamination des piscines intérieures
  • Year Funded: 2014

    A Knowledge Transfer Intervention with Supervisors. Can we reduce injury by improving knowledge translation strategies for direct support workers of people with intellectual disability who display challenging behavior?

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    Keywords:
    knowledge transfer, frontline staff, emotional trauma
  • Year Funded: 2014

    Update of the Technical Fact Sheet on Mine Hoist Control Systems

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    Keywords:
    Mine Hoist Control Systems, IRSST