Contemporary research in the field of child and youth study continues to examine the experiences of children living within urban environments. This research has tended to examine challenges to child development present ...

This is the first qualitative study in Canada specifically focused on food insecurity ...

This thesis explores public relations scholarship to analyse where activism and public relations articulate and intersect in their development or “then” over the past century in how public relations became defined as a ...

In research exploring adolescent friendship, relatively little study has focused on Black youths’ friendship patterns or, more specifically, the role that these relationships have in their everyday experiences as students ...

Introduction: Research suggests that early childhood is a sensitive and influential period in a child’s development. Experiencing stressful experiences during this developmental phase can cause unfavourable outcomes for ...

Children and adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have been found to make a variety of poor life decisions in comparison to typically developing children and adolescents. To date, it is difficult ...

As Canada’s population continues to age, provincial/territorial governments will increasingly rely on the work and support of family/friend caregivers. Family/friend caregivers often experience financial, emotional physical ...

This study was designed to examine if anti bias and culturally responsive curriculums are present in urban and rural daycares in Nova Scotia. Additional factors were investigated to determine the relationship between ...

This research assesses physical environments in adult day programs in Nova Scotia in terms of their appropriateness for persons with dementia. Researchers have found that when physical environments are well designed, ...

We have shown in previous research that food management strategies adopted by lowincome families may account for the difference in diet quality within households that have similar economic and structural characteristics. ...