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Heather O'Brien
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Research
Latest papers
Managing risk and reward: Exploring immigrant platform workers' occupational safety and wellbeing through a sociotechnical lens.
Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2026
What influences engagement with a bipolar disorder self-management app? A qualitative investigation of use of the PolarUs app.
PLOS digital health · 2025
The experience of self-monitoring using the PolarUs bipolar disorder self-management app: a qualitative report of impacts and unmet needs.
Journal of affective disorders · 2025
Latest funding
- $757,350
Evaluating the efficacy of the PolarUs app on quality of life outcomes in people with bipolar disorder
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $23,850
The Canadian Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment in Aging Knowledge Mobilization Hub: Sharing Stories of Research
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Bipolar Bridges: A Digital Health Innovation Targeting Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Managing risk and reward: Exploring immigrant platform workers' occupational safety and wellbeing through a sociotechnical lens.
Yekta AR, Huot S, O'Brien H, McLeod C
What influences engagement with a bipolar disorder self-management app? A qualitative investigation of use of the PolarUs app.
Morton E, Hole R, O'Brien H, Li L, Barnes SJ, Michalak EE
The experience of self-monitoring using the PolarUs bipolar disorder self-management app: a qualitative report of impacts and unmet needs.
Morton E, Hole R, O'Brien H, Li LC, Barnes SJ, Michalak EE
Evaluating the efficacy of the PolarUs app on quality of life outcomes in people with bipolar disorder
Principal investigators: Michalak, Erin; Barnes, Steven J
Keywords: Bipolar Disorder; Clinical Trial; Community-Based Participatory Research; Digital Mental Health; Ehealth; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mhealth; Mood Disorders; Quality Of Life; Self-Management
The Canadian Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment in Aging Knowledge Mobilization Hub: Sharing Stories of Research
Principal investigators: Phinney, Alison; Cooke, Heather A; O'Brien, Heather L
Keywords: Acessibility; Aging; Alzheimer'S Disease; Brain Health; Care Giving; Cognitive Impairment; Community Engagement; Dementia; Diversity And Inclusion; Knowledge Mobilization
Bipolar Bridges: A Digital Health Innovation Targeting Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder
Principal investigators: Michalak, Erin; Barnes, Steven J
Keywords: Bipolar Disorder; Community-Based Participatory Research; Ehealth; Gender; Health Equity; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mhealth; Mood Disorders; Quality Of Life; Self-Management
Bipolar Bridges: A Digital Health Innovation Targeting Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder
Principal investigators: Michalak, Erin; Barnes, Steven J
Keywords: Bipolar Disorder; Community-Based Participatory Research; Ehealth; Gender; Health Equity; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Mhealth; Mood Disorders; Quality Of Life; Self-Management
Population health information interventions: Examining the perspectives of young parents
Principal investigators: Shoveller, Jeannie A
Keywords: Early-Age Parenting; In-Depth Interviews; Information Interventions; Naturalistic Observation; Population Health Information Research; Qualitative Health Research; Social Health Inequities; Teen Pregnancy; Young People; Youth Health
Mapping the process of engagement with educational applications
Principal investigators: O'Brien, Heather L.
Keywords: information science; educational software applications; human-computer interaction; engagement; measurement; methodology; design; user experience
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- School of Nursing
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Physical Therapy
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