ORCID Profile
0000-0002-8157-7746
Current Organisations
University Health Network
,
University of Toronto
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-03-2014
Abstract: Though intimate partner violence (IPV) is predominately understood as a women's health issue most often emerging within heterosexual relationships, there is increasing recognition of the existence of male victims of IPV. In this qualitative study we explored connections between masculinities and IPV among gay men. The findings show how recognising IPV was based on an array of participant experiences, including the emotional, physical and sexual abuse inflicted by their partner, which in turn led to three processes. Normalising and concealing violence referred to the participants' complicity in accepting violence as part of their relationship and their reluctance to disclose that they were victims of IPV. Realising a way out included the participants' understandings that the triggers for, and patterns of, IPV would best be quelled by leaving the relationship. Nurturing recovery detailed the strategies employed by participants to mend and sustain their wellbeing in the aftermath of leaving an abusive relationship. In terms of masculinities and men's health research, the findings reveal the limits of idealising hegemonic masculinities and gender relations as heterosexual, while highlighting a plurality of gay masculinities and the need for IPV support services that bridge the ide between male and female as well as between homosexual and heterosexual.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.GENM.2012.07.003
Abstract: The human menstrual cycle (MC) has historically been the focus of myth and misinformation, leading to ideas that constrain women's activities. We wished to examine one pervasive idea, that the MC is a cause of negative mood, by studying the scientific literature as a whole. We briefly reviewed the history of the idea of premenstrual syndrome and undertook a systematic review of quality studies. We searched PubMed, PsycINFO, and article bibliographies for published studies using non-help-seeking s les with daily mood data collected prospectively for a minimum of 1 complete MC. We critiqued their methodologies and tabulated the key findings. Of 47 English language studies identified, 18 (38.3%) found no association of mood with any MC phase 18 found an association of negative mood in the premenstrual phase combined with another MC phase and only 7 (14.9%) found an association of negative mood and the premenstrual phase. Finally, the remaining 4 studies (8.5%) showed an association between negative mood and a non-premenstrual phase. Considering the only 41 adequately powered studies, the same phase links were reported by 36.6%, 41.5%, and 13.5% of studies, respectively. Their ersity of methods (s ling, instruments, and cycle phase definitions) precluded a meta-analysis. Taken together, these studies failed to provide clear evidence in support of the existence of a specific premenstrual negative mood syndrome in the general population. This puzzlingly widespread belief needs challenging, as it perpetuates negative concepts linking female reproduction with negative emotionality.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2005
DOI: 10.1016/J.AHJ.2005.05.005
Abstract: Previous research suggests that after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, women fare worse than men. This study investigates sex differences in depression during recovery from CABG surgery. We followed 137 patients (72 men, 65 women) undergoing elective isolated first CABG surgery between July 2003 and April 2004. Patients were interviewed < or = 28 days before surgery and between 6 and 12 weeks after surgery. Patients completed a structured diagnostic interview for major depressive disorder (MDD) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Clinical data were retrieved from patient charts. Prevalence of MDD before surgery was 28.2%, but decreased to 16.4% after surgery (P = .038). Women had significantly more depressive symptoms than men pre-CABG, with a mean BDI of 12.5 (95% CI 10.6-14.4) for women versus 8.0 (95% CI 6.3-9.8) for men (P = .0001), but not post-CABG. There was a significant sex-by-time interaction with depressive symptoms in women improving almost 6-fold more than in men, with BDI change scores of 4.1 (95% CI 2.0-6.1) for women versus 0.7 (95% CI-1.0-2.5) for men (P = .008). The interaction remained significant after adjusting the model for the predetermined baseline characteristics education, social support, and operative risk. Women had more depressive symptoms than men pre-CABG, but improved to a level comparable to men post-CABG. Women benefited from CABG as much or more than men in terms of their mental health. Preoperative depressive symptoms should not preclude women from CABG surgery.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 29-05-2015
Abstract: People who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) or child maltreatment (CM) are at risk of having lower resilience and adverse psychological outcomes. In keeping with the social and environmental factors that support resilience, there is a need to take a public health approach to its investigation and to identify existing initiatives in particular settings and populations that can guide its deliberate promotion. This narrative synthesis examines quantitative and qualitative studies of interventions with resilience-related outcomes in specified health and other settings. Clinical RCTs are excluded as beyond the scope of this review. Twenty studies were identified for review in several settings, consisting of 14 quantitative studies, 2 review studies, 2 qualitative studies and 2 mixed-methods studies. Three quantitative studies produced strong evidence to support: a home visitation program for at-risk mothers a methadone program for women and a substance abuse program. This review reveals that few studies use specific resilience measures. The topic has been little studied despite high needs for public health interventions in countries of all types. Interventions and research studies that use specific resilience measures are likely to help measure and integrate what is currently a disparate area. The participation of people with IPV or CM history in program and research design and implementation is indicated to support advocacy, innovation and sustainable interventions. This is especially pertinent for interventions in LAMIC and indigenous settings where continuing programs are sorely needed.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-08-2012
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Date: 06-11-2012
DOI: 10.1159/000339370
Abstract: b i Background: /i /b Premenstrual mood symptoms are considered common in women, but such prevailing attitudes are shaped by social expectations about gender, emotionality and hormonal influences. There are few prospective, community studies of women reporting mood data from all phases of the menstrual cycle (MC). We aimed (i) to analyze daily mood data over 6 months for MC phase cyclicity and (ii) to compare MC phase influences on a woman’s daily mood with that attributable to key alternate explanatory variables (physical health, perceived stress and social support). b i Method: /i /b A random s le of Canadian women aged 18–40 years collected mood and health data daily over 6 months, using telemetry, producing 395 complete MCs for analysis. b i Results: /i /b Only half the in idual mood items showed any MC phase association these links were either with the menses phase alone or the menses plus the premenstrual phase. With one exception, the association was not solely premenstrual. The menses-follicular-luteal MC ision gave similar results. Less than 0.5% of the women’s in idual periodogram records for each mood item showed MC entrainment. Physical health, perceived stress and social support were much stronger predictors of mood (p 0.0001 in each case) than MC phase. b i Conclusions: /i /b The results of this study do not support the widespread idea of specific premenstrual dysphoria in women. Daily physical health status, perceived stress and social support explain daily mood better than MC phase.
No related grants have been discovered for Donna Eileen Stewart.