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Background The Patient Perception of Patient-Centeredness (PPPC) questionnaire was revised, and there is a need for the questionnaire to be tested in diverse primary care populations. Objectives This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the Revised PPPC questionnaire (PPPC-R) in French-speaking patients with multimorbidity. Design Secondary analysis from baseline data of the French arm of Patient-Centered Innovations for Persons with Multimorbidity Study (PACEinMM...

Background Patients who live in minority language situations are generally more likely to experience poor health outcomes, including harmful events. The delivery of healthcare services in a language-concordant environment has been shown to mitigate the risk of poor health outcomes related to chronic disease management in primary care. However, data assessing the impact of language-concordance on the risk of in-hospital harm are lacking. We conducted a population-based study to determine...

The OZi project aims to collect and analyze data in order to provide a portrait of FLHS capacity across the province. This initiative seeks to address the lack of standardized data in order to enable effective planning and informed decision-making. Through the use of the OZi portal, data was collected from LHIN funded health service providers (HSPs) on their capacity to provide FLHS. This report covers the second year of data collection (2018-2019). The analysis focuses on four perspectives:...

Le projet OZi a pour objectif de colliger et d’analyser des données afin de dresser un portrait de la capacité de SSEF. Cette initiative cherche à pallier le manque de données normalisées afin de permettre une planification efficace et une prise des décisions éclairée. Grâce au portail OZi, les fournisseurs de services de santé (FSS) financés par les RLISS ont fourni des données de référence sur leur capacité en matière de SSEF. Le présent rapport porte sur la deuxième année de collecte de...

Background Hospitalizations carry considerable risks for frail, elderly patients; this is especially true for patients with dementia, who are more likely to experience delirium, falls, functional decline, iatrogenic complications, and infections when compared to their peers without dementia. Since up to two thirds of patients in long-term care (LTC) facilities have dementia, there is interest in identifying factors associated with transitions from LTC facilities to hospitals. The purpose of...

Little research has examined communication problems between speakers of official minority languages (patients or caregivers) and health care providers. The objective of this research was to identify the types of issues experienced by English-speaking caregivers of seniors in Quebec, as they interact with French-speaking health care providers. The majority of the caregivers interviewed indicated that they were satisfied with physicians’ interaction with the seniors they cared for. However,...

While over the half of Francophone immigrants living in Ontario come from Africa and the Caribbean, Canadian-trained health professionals are not sufficiently familiar with the health problems that newcomers may face. With this in mind, in a multi-disciplinary partnership, the Center for Rural and Northern Health Research, the Centre de santé communautaire du grand Sudbury, l’Institut du savoir Montfort, the School of Human Kinetics at Laurentian University, and a group of French-speaking...

The experiences of multilingual patients communicating with unilingual healthcare providers have been largely unexplored. The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of bilingual stroke patients within the Canadian healthcare context. A secondary analysis was completed with data from a multiple case study of the experiences of seven, low-income bilingual Francophone stroke survivors living in a predominately English area. Data included semi-structured interviews, chart reviews...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine access to and continuity of French-language healthcare and social services in Ontario's Champlain region through an analytical framework that incorporates people seeking care, their caregivers and the linguistic component of care into a health and social service system bounded by community, organizational, political and symbolic structures. Methods: Experiences of French-speaking seniors seeking care and those of health and social service...

Language is an important determinant of health, and lack of access to quality, linguistically adapted healthcare and social services negatively impacts users. Besides the lack of bilingual resources, our previous research on Francophone minority community seniors’ trajectories through these services shed light on important and nonobvious challenges currently faced by organizations offering healthcare and social services to this population. Current service provision appeared limited due to...

Le vieillissement démographique soulève des enjeux fondamentaux dans la réponse des acteurs sociaux aux besoins manifestés par les aînés sur le plan de la santé. L’objectif de cette contribution est double. Il consiste, d’une part, à identifier les principaux enjeux auxquels sont confrontés les aînés francophones en situation minoritaire sur le plan de la santé et, d’autre part, à examiner la situation des inégalités sociales et les conditions de vie qui en découlent comme déterminant de la...

The language barrier continues to compromise adequate healthcare delivery in multilingual healthcare systems. This makes language an important issue for the policy agenda in such systems. This article highlights the silence of selected South African health policies on managing the language barrier in healthcare. The analysis establishes that the selected policies make limited provisions, if any, on the language barrier and fail to account for how the language barrier should be addressed in...

Les personnes aînées se retrouvent parmi les groupes les plus susceptibles d’être diagnostiqués d’une maladie cognitive, telle qu’une démence. La réception du diagnostic est un événement bouleversant pour toutes les personnes impliquées, et plus particulièrement pour les familles. Dans la région d’Ottawa, il existe une variété de ressources pour soutenir les personnes atteintes d’une démence ainsi que leurs proches. Or, la littérature disponible indique que les personnes francophones vivant...

Aim To identify barriers to/enablers of attendance at eye screening among three groups of immigrantsto Canada from cultural/linguistic minority groups living with diabetes. Methods Using a patient-oriented research approach leveraging Diabetes Action Canada's patient engagement platform, we interviewed a purposeful sample of people with type 2 diabetes who had immigrated to Canada from: Pakistan (interviews in Urdu), China (interviews in Mandarin) and French-speaking African and Caribbean...

Les auteurs se demandent si l’utilisation de marqueurs discursifs change, dans les interactions des infirmières avec les patients, en fonction de l’usage qu’elles font de leur langue maternelle (L1) ou de leur langue seconde (L2). Les marqueurs sont analysés à titre de marqueurs de maintien du tour de parole, indiquant la « prise en compte » et de marqueurs de transition dans le discours, indiquant un changement de sujet ou de locuteur dans la conversation. Ces deux catégories de marqueurs...