Outputs (18)

Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Wray, A., Martin, G., Ferguson, K. N., Coen, S. E., Seabrook, J. A., & Gilliland, J. (2024). Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cities & Health, 8(2), 143-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2282850

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth mental health and stress levels warrants urgent attention. In Canada, as elsewhere in the world, public health measures in the early stages of the pandemic dramatically transformed the everyday geographie... Read More about Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments (2023)
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Coen, S. E., Nelson Ferguson, K., Burke, S. M., Dela Cruz, T. J. E., Girum, L., Guisandes Bueno, G. I., …Gilliland, J. A. (2023). Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 4, Article 100367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100367

Increasing prevalence of vaping (e-cigarette use) among youth in Canada and elsewhere has become a serious public health concern. The Teens Talk Vaping project sought to co-produce research about teen vaping with teens to generate in-depth qualitativ... Read More about Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments.

“It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project (2023)
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Nelson Ferguson, K., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. (2023). “It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project. Journal of Adolescent Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584231176992

The inclusion of youth voices in research relating to their own daily environments, wellbeing, and development is increasingly recognized as essential to ensuring rigor and success in mobilizing community change. Few studies have qualitatively examin... Read More about “It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project.

‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program (2022)
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Ostermeier, E., Reilly, K., Nelson Ferguson, K., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. (2023). ‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152081

As most Canadian children are not attaining the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity, it is imperative that affordable and accessible programs are implemented to help children become more physically active. Specifically, community-based... Read More about ‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program.

The mental well-being and coping strategies of Canadian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative, cross-sectional study (2021)
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Ferguson, K. N., Coen, S. E., Tobin, D., Martin, G., Seabrook, J. A., & Gilliland, J. A. (2021). The mental well-being and coping strategies of Canadian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative, cross-sectional study. CMAJ Open, 9(4), E1013-E1020. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20210042

Background: Qualitative research is lacking on the mental well-being of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to explore the feelings and emotions adolescents experienced during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic an... Read More about The mental well-being and coping strategies of Canadian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative, cross-sectional study.

“Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities (2021)
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Coen, S. E. (2021). “Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities. Area, 53(4), 699-707. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12744

This paper is a provocation and reflection on some of the methodological tensions and opportunities I encountered in trying to “get at” gender in my research on the everday gendered geographies of physical activity. Situated in a feminist methodology... Read More about “Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities.

Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review (2021)
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Schlund, A., Reimers, A. K., Bucksch, J., Brindley, C., Schulze, C., Puil, L., …Demetriou, Y. (2021). Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 18(4), 461-468. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0666

Background: Physical inactivity is often reported in youth and differs among boys and girls. The aim of this study is to assess sex/gender considerations in intervention studies promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior in youth usi... Read More about Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review.

Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies (2021)
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Medeiros, A., Buttazzoni, A., Coen, S. E., Clark, A. F., Wilson, K., & Gilliland, J. (2021). Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies. Journal of Transport and Health, 21, Article 101035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101035

Introduction: Trends over the last half century have shown that fewer children today are engaging in active modes of travel to and from school than in previous generations. Interventions promoting active school travel (AST) can be effective at revers... Read More about Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies.

Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach (2021)
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Parsons, J. L., Coen, S. E., & Bekker, S. (2021). Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach. British Journal of Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103173

Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3-6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date, ACL injury prevention and management has been a... Read More about Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach.

A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review (2020)
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Schulze, C., Demetriou, Y., Emmerling, S., Schlund, A., Phillips, S. P., Puil, L., …Reimers, A. K. (2020). A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review. BMC Pediatrics, 20(1), Article 473. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02370-9

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: To evaluate the effects of interventions on children's and adolescents' overall physical activity (PA) for boys and girls separately and to appraise the extent to which the studies haven taken sex/gender into account... Read More about A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review.