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Richard Sawatzky

ResearcherSchool of NursingTrinity Western University

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Richard Sawatzky

Researcher

School of Nursing

Health Sciences

Trinity Western University

Langley, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
56 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 22 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (8 CIHR), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

Crc Chronic Conditions Computerized Adaptive Test Emotional Wellbeing Health Equity Pain Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement People-Centred Health Services

Latest papers

Impact of response shift on change in patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review.
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026 · senior author
The argument-based approach to validity: theory, assumptions, evidence, and consequences.
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
Response shifting: a qualitative meta-synthesis on response shift.
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026 · senior author

All 125 publications

Latest funding

Equitable quality of life Measurements to inform Age-friendly Community initiatives in diverse populations (EMAC)
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$140,000
Designing Equitable and Sustainable Healthcare Facilities through a Planetary Health Lens
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Arts-based Spiritual Care to Advance Equity in Healthcare: An Interdisciplinary, Cooperative Investigation
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 14 grants and awards

125 publications.

Impact of response shift on change in patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review.

Verdam MGE, Kwon JY, Russell L, Sébille V, Sprangers MAG, Sawatzky R, Response Shift –in Sync Working Group

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11136-026-04307-8 PMID: 42295490

The argument-based approach to validity: theory, assumptions, evidence, and consequences.

Hawkins M, Sawatzky R, Weinfurt K, Cartner S, Gill S, Osborne R, Mayo N, Schick-Makaroff K, Sprangers M, Wirth RJ, Elsworth GR, Nolte S

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2026

DOI: 10.1007/s11136-026-04194-z PMID: 42250172

Response shifting: a qualitative meta-synthesis on response shift.

Schick-Makaroff K, Davey AF, Sébille V, Sprangers MAG, Sawatzky R, Response Shift –in Sync Working Group

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11136-026-04290-0 PMID: 42250000

A Descriptive Comparison of Scoring Methods and Criteria for Evaluating Consensus in Modified Delphi Methods.

Salum M, Schick-Makaroff K, Sawatzky R

The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/08445621251414530 PMID: 41610201

Patterns of social determinants of health and their associations with health indicators: a latent class analysis.

Kwon JY, Mehdipour A, Verdam M, Moynihan M, O'Rourke JJ, Kosowan L, Schick-Makaroff K, Sawatzky R

Journal of clinical epidemiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2026.112392 PMID: 42342052

Development and validation of an enhanced PERCCI-S (PERCCI-S-Rev) for measuring person-centred home-based primary care.

Larsen T, Sawatzky R, Wijk H, Wikström E, Wolf A

Frontiers in health services2026

DOI: 10.3389/frhs.2026.1766556 PMID: 41836910

Public understanding of palliative care and preferences for place of end-of-life care and death: A national population-based latent class analysis.

Larsdotter C, Nyblom S, Imberg H, Sawatzky R, Öhlén J

Palliative care and social practice2026

DOI: 10.1177/26323524261474030 PMID: 42539778

Correction: Impact of response shift on change in patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review.

Verdam MGE, Kwon JY, Russell L, Sébille V, Sprangers MAG, Sawatzky R, Response Shift –in Sync Working Group

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11136-026-04329-2 PMID: 42645573

Did a digital quality of life (QOL) assessment and practice support system in home health care improve the QOL of older adults living with life-limiting conditions and of their family caregivers? A mixed-methods pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

Sawatzky R, Schick-Makaroff K, Ratner PA, Kwon JY, Whitehurst DGT, Öhlén J, Maybee A, Stajduhar K, Zetes-Zanatta L, Cohen SR

PloS one2025First author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0320306 PMID: 40327663

How Are People Undergoing Dialysis Expected to Benefit From Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? A Realist Analysis.

Micklitz K, Greenhalgh J, Lo LSH, Sawatzky R, Schick-Makaroff K

Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2025

DOI: 10.1111/hex.70466 PMID: 41074668

Equitable quality of life Measurements to inform Age-friendly Community initiatives in diverse populations (EMAC)

SupervisorCIHR2025Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program

Principal investigators: Mehdipour-Ataei, Ava

Keywords: Age-Friendly Communities; Aging; Equitable Measurement; Equity, Diversity, And Inclusion; Measurement Bias; Measurement Invariance; Patient-Reported Outcomes; Psychometrics; Quality Of Life; Social Determinants Of Health

$140,000

Designing Equitable and Sustainable Healthcare Facilities through a Planetary Health Lens

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: DaCosta, Ashley

Keywords: Environment; Health Equity; Healthcare Design; Interpretive Description; Nursing; Planetary Health; Qualitative Research; Sustainability; Transdisciplinary; Well-Being

$120,000

Arts-based Spiritual Care to Advance Equity in Healthcare: An Interdisciplinary, Cooperative Investigation

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant - PA: Research in First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Health

Principal investigators: Rieger, Kendra L; Tuppurainen, Anne

Keywords: Arts; Arts-Based Knowledge Translation; Arts-Based Research Methods; Case Study; Cooperative Inquiry; Health Equity; Healthcare Services; Spiritual Care; Spiritual Care Practitioner; Traditional Healer

$100,000

Étiologie des compétences en lecture: rôle des facteurs génétiques

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022SSHRC Doctoral Awards

Principal investigators: Remon, Alexandra

Keywords: développement de l'enfant; interactions gènes et environnement; compétences en lecture; edophénotypes de la lecture; environnements périnataux et postnataux; génétique moléculaire

$48,686

Canada Research Chairs - Tier 1

Nominated PICIHR2022Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 1

Principal investigators: Sawatzky, Richard

Keywords: Crc

$1,400,000

Novel methods for equitable people-centred health measurement

Nominated PICIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Sawatzky, Richard; Cuthbertson, Lena N; Lix, Lisa M; Munro, Sandra; Parrilla Lopez (Santana), Maria Jose; Salmon, Amy L; Schick-Makaroff, Kara L; Zumbo, Bruno D

Keywords: Chronic Conditions; Computerized Adaptive Test; Emotional Wellbeing; Health Equity; Pain; Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement; People-Centred Health Services; Personalized Digital Health Solutions

$761,176

Prize - 202109PJT - Novel methods for equitable people-centred health measurement

Nominated PICIHR2021PRIZE - Pr. Gr. - PA: Barer-Flood Senior Career Prize in HSPR.

Principal investigators: Sawatzky, Richard; Cuthbertson, Lena N; Lix, Lisa M; Munro, Sandra; Parrilla Lopez (Santana), Maria Jose; Salmon, Amy L; Schick-Makaroff, Kara L; Zumbo, Bruno D

$12,500

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2 - CIHR Funded

Nominated PICIHR2017Canada Research Chairs - CIHR Funded - Tier 2

Principal investigators: Sawatzky, Richard

Keywords: Crc

$500,000

Statistical Methods for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

Nominated PICIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Sawatzky, Richard; Sajobi, Tolulope T

Keywords: Item Response Theory; Longitudinal; Patient-Reported Outcomes; Psychometrics; Quality Of Life Measurement; Response Shift; Secondary Data Analysis

$309,764

Integrating a quality of life assessment and practice support system in homecare services for older adults with life-limiting illness and their families

Nominated PICIHR2015Oper Grant:eHealth Innov Partnership Program(eHIPP)-Seniors w Complex Care Needs

Principal investigators: Sawatzky, Richard; Butler, Catherine; Hilliard, Neil; Cohen, S. Robin; Schick-Makaroff, Kara L; Stajduhar, Kelli I

Keywords: Chronic Life-Limiting Illness; Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (E-Pro); Electronic Practice Support Systems; Homecare Services; Patient-Reported Experience Measures; Quality Of Life Assessment

$735,139

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Richard Sawatzky

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Impact of response shift on change in patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review.

The argument-based approach to validity: theory, assumptions, evidence, and consequences.

Response shifting: a qualitative meta-synthesis on response shift.

A Descriptive Comparison of Scoring Methods and Criteria for Evaluating Consensus in Modified Delphi Methods.

Patterns of social determinants of health and their associations with health indicators: a latent class analysis.

Development and validation of an enhanced PERCCI-S (PERCCI-S-Rev) for measuring person-centred home-based primary care.

Public understanding of palliative care and preferences for place of end-of-life care and death: A national population-based latent class analysis.

Correction: Impact of response shift on change in patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review.

Did a digital quality of life (QOL) assessment and practice support system in home health care improve the QOL of older adults living with life-limiting conditions and of their family caregivers? A mixed-methods pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

How Are People Undergoing Dialysis Expected to Benefit From Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? A Realist Analysis.

Étiologie des compétences en lecture: rôle des facteurs génétiques

Frequent collaborators

Richard Sawatzky

Kara Schick-Makaroff

Kelli Stajduhar

Jae-Yung Kwon

Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham

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Scott Klarenbach

Stirling Bryan

Nancy Mayo

Barbara Pesut

Sally Thorne

Doris Barwich

Jacek Kopec

Stephanie Thompson

Tolulope Sajobi

Eric Bohm

Jennifer Baumbusch

Hubert Wong

Barbara Astle

Eman Hassan

Kara Schick-Makaroff

Wei Zhang

Alexandra Papaioannou

Carolyn Tayler

Sara Ahmed

Susan Farrell

Tim Aubry

Kathleen Elizabeth Wheeler

Aleck Ostry

Paul Stolee

Ayse Kuspinar

Bonny Ibhawoh

Amy Salmon

Kimberlyn McGrail

Hude Quan

Shane Sinclair

Karin Humphries

Teresa Liu-Ambrose

Jeannie Shoveller

Nichole Fairbrother