School of Kinesiology & Health Studies Graduate Theses
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‘To recover a sense of the sacred in ourselves and in everything around us’: Exploring the place of spirituality in Canadian health promotion
The field of health promotion advocates a socioecological approach to health which addresses a wide variety of physical, social, environmental, political and cultural factors. Encouraging a holistic approach, health promotion ... -
Fatigue-Independent Alterations in Muscle Activation and Effort Perception During Forearm Exercise: The Role of Local Oxygen Delivery
In exercise, the sensations of effort to make the muscles do exercise can contribute to an individual’s decision to stop exercise or decrease exercise intensity. Skeletal muscle fatigue is one mechanism by which the effort ... -
Advances in objectively measured movement behaviours in children
The objectives of this thesis were: 1) to develop and apply a novel method for objectively measuring the time children and adolescents spend engaged in different types of physical activity, 2) to develop and validate an ... -
Making 'Mr. Hockey': Race, Gender, Class, and Nation in Media Representations of Gordie Howe
In this dissertation I study media representations of Gordie Howe, also known as ‘Mr. Hockey,’ who has been an idealized image of a hockey player and a ‘true’ Canadian during the Canadian postwar era. By taking Howe as ... -
The Parallel Squat: A Comparison Between Kinematic, Kinetic, and Muscle Activity Components of Measurement
Movement quality screening tools have been developed to reduce the risk of injury and enhance physical performance. These screening tools use observational techniques to analyze movement and identify faulty movement patterns. ... -
An examination of team structure and its implications for subgroups in an individual sport setting
Despite growing research interest in the social dynamics of sport teams, the smaller groups that emerge from within a total team have largely been overlooked. This is concerning given that preliminary investigations ... -
Investigating metabolomic and phenotypic changes following exercise training and corresponding implications for cardiometabolic risk
The purpose of this dissertation was to study the effects of exercise training on the plasma metabolome and phenotypic changes in men and women with abdominal obesity, using both metabolomics and magnetic resonance imaging ... -
Exploring Politics, Practices, and Discourses of Harm Reduction in the Overdose Crisis: the Case of the Tenant Overdose Response Organizers and the “Therapeutic Riskscape”
Harm reduction, its aspirations, politics, and discourses, have changed dramatically since its origins as a grassroots, drug user-led movement in Canada. Public health played a critical role in helping implement harm ... -
Age-related differences in passive trunk stiffness, seated spine postures, and muscle recruitment patterns
Introduction: Age is associated with changes in tissue stiffness as well as higher muscle activity and an increase in the prevalence of low back pain. With increased worker age globally, and with the increased incidence ... -
Examining the reproducibility of the observed cardiorespiratory fitness response to standardized training
There is considerable heterogeneity in observed cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) responses to standardized training. Evidence from twin and family training studies demonstrates a strong link between an individual’s genetics ... -
"It has to be more than exercise": Exploring optimal physical activity program delivery for breast cancer survivors across multiple stakeholder groups
Physical activity is an effective strategy for mitigating the negative physical and psychosocial effects of breast cancer treatment. Accordingly, physical activity programs have been developed to enhance clinical cancer ... -
DETERMINING THE IMPACT OF AN EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ON FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENTS’ SOCIAL COGNITIONS AND BEHAVIOUR FOR DISCUSSING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Primary care providers are failing to effectively promote physical activity (PA) to their patients. It has been shown that educational approaches promoting the uptake of strategies that are proven to increase patient PA ... -
HOUSEHOLD FOOD INSECURITY AMONG OLDER PEOPLE IN CANADA: THE EXPLORATION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE RENDERED INVISIBLE
Food insecurity, an issue of inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints, is under-researched among older people. Of this limited literature, the relevance of aging to food insecurity remains unclear. ... -
A SNAPSHOT OF QUALITY PARTICIPATION IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: A PHOTO ELICITATION STUDY
Not only do adults with disabilities have a right to participate, they have the right to full participation. Enabling full participation means having access to and engaging in a range of opportunities that are satisfying ... -
Promoting Healthy Urban Environments for Young Indigenous Peoples: The Case of M'Wikwedong Native Cultural Resource Centre
Background: In the Canadian context, ethical tensions for health promotion in relation with Indigenous health have received limited attention. Urban environments are particularly relevant for an anti-colonial critique of ... -
Putting Food Back into the Curriculum: Key Informants’ Perspectives on Implementing a Mandatory Food Literacy Component in Ontario Secondary School Curriculum
Introduction: The food environment has changed over the last few decades with a sharp rise in individuals eating outside of the home and the availability of packaged and ultra-processed products. These types of foods are ... -
Time for a new story: Circulating alternative narratives of parasport participation
Narrative messages are effective health promotion tools when the plot evokes positive feelings and when viewers identify with the characters; however, the dominant narrative of parasport participation currently circulated ... -
Branding in the promotion of healthy movement behaviours
Organizations and health resources or products with strong brands can augment interventions encouraging people to move more, sit less, and sleep better. This manuscript-based dissertation is composed of four studies that ... -
Examining Factors That Influence Youth Sport Coaches' Transformational Leadership Behaviours
There is growing recognition that Transformational Leadership (TFL; Bass & Riggio, 2006) may hold significant potential for exploring coaches’ influence on athlete development (Vella, et al., 2013a). Although previous ... -
From Knowledge to Action: Quality Participation and Coaching Effectiveness in Disability Sport
Limited research attends to the quality of participation in sport for persons with disabilities (i.e., disability sport), or the role of coaches in shaping the quality of athletes’ disability sport experiences. To address ...
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