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Research
Latest papers
Alcohol in Context: Alcohol Experiences Among First-Year Residence-Dwelling Students at Two Canadian Universities.
Contemporary drug problems · 2026 · senior author
Features of drug addiction treatment programs in Atlantic Canada that help (or not) with access and retention: A qualitative study.
PloS one · 2025
Sleep should not be this difficult: An interpretive descriptive study of older adults' perspectives on behaviour change elements in Sleepwell and experiences with benzodiazepine discontinuation.
Journal of sleep research · 2025
Latest funding
- $1,000,000
From Isolation to Engagement: Building Community Connections to Advance STBBI Prevention and Sexual Wellbeing Among Men Sex Workers in Atlantic Canada
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $120,000
From assimilation to resurgence: A multi-method exploration of the role of health promoting occupations for Indigenous People in Canada.
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
- $99,870
Identifying and measuring structural determinants of health outcomes when working with impoverished populations in Atlantic Canada
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
10 publications.
Alcohol in Context: Alcohol Experiences Among First-Year Residence-Dwelling Students at Two Canadian Universities.
Liaukovich A, Matharoo AK, Burns VF, Wetmore R, Snow C, Kiepek N
Features of drug addiction treatment programs in Atlantic Canada that help (or not) with access and retention: A qualitative study.
Mathias H, Jackson LA, Buxton JA, Dubé A, Kiepek N, MacDonald JA, Martin F, Smith J
Sleep should not be this difficult: An interpretive descriptive study of older adults' perspectives on behaviour change elements in Sleepwell and experiences with benzodiazepine discontinuation.
Katmeh T, Gardner DM, Kiepek N, Macdonald M, Murphy AL
Substance Use and Mental Health among Canadian Social Workers.
Kiepek N, Beagan B
Opportunities to improve inpatient services and reduce rates of patient-direct discharge among people who use substances.
Peters H, Liaukovich A, Grace N, Ausman C, Kiepek N
Medical training to effectively support patients who use substances across practice settings: a scoping review of recommended competencies.
Ausman C, Almatar D, Kiepek N
What features of drug treatment programs help, or not, with access? a qualitative study of the perspectives of family members and community-based organization staff in Atlantic Canada.
Mathias H, Jackson LA, Buxton JA, Dubé A, Kiepek N, Martin F, Martin P
"You Are You, But You Are Also Your Profession": Nebulous Boundaries of Personal Substance Use.
Kiepek N, Ausman C
Exploring care of hospital inpatients with substance involvement.
Kiepek N, Jones-Bonofiglio K, Freemantle S, Byerley-Vita M, Quaid K
Seeking legitimacy for broad understandings of substance use.
Kiepek N, Van de Ven K, Dunn M, Forlini C
From Isolation to Engagement: Building Community Connections to Advance STBBI Prevention and Sexual Wellbeing Among Men Sex Workers in Atlantic Canada
Principal investigators: Numer, Matthew S; MacDonnell, Alex; Holmes, Dave
Keywords: Arts-Based Methods; Atlantic Canada; Community-Based Research; Critical Collaborative Ethnography; Discourse Analysis; Gbmsm; Poststructural; Queer Theory; Sex Workers; Social Cohesion
From assimilation to resurgence: A multi-method exploration of the role of health promoting occupations for Indigenous People in Canada.
Principal investigators: Valavaara, Kaarina
Keywords: Colonialism; Cultural Resurgence; Determinants Of Health; Indigenous Health; Indigenous Methodologies; Indigenous Self-Determination; Multi Methods Research; Occupational Science
Identifying and measuring structural determinants of health outcomes when working with impoverished populations in Atlantic Canada
Principal investigators: Kiepek, Niki C; Chambers, Keri
Keywords: Compassion; Harm Reduction; Health Equity; Homelessness; Poverty; Structural Determinants Of Health
Representing (de)polarised understandings of substance use across lived experience, medical, and legal perspectives
Principal investigators: Kiepek, Niki C.
Keywords: substance use; medicalization; criminalization; lived experience; photo elicitation; narrative analysis; method assemblage; deviance theory
Representing (de)polarised understandings of substance use across lived experience, medical, and legal perspectives
Principal investigators: Kiepek, Niki C.
Keywords: substance use; medicalization; criminalization; lived experience; photo elicitation; narrative analysis; method assemblage; deviance theory
Student alcohol consumption in university residences: An institutional ethnographic inquiry
Principal investigators: Chen, Shu-Ping; Harvey-Jansen, H. Z'Anne
Keywords: Campus Drinking Culture; Dormitory Environment; Ethnography; Heavy Episode Drinking; Qualitative Research; University Students
Opioid use after first prescription for low back pain in the emergency department
Principal investigators: Hayden, Jill A; Kiepek, Niki C
Keywords: Back Pain; Emergency Medicine; Opioid Use; Patient Outcomes; Patient-Report
Substance use and professional socialisation
Principal investigators: Kiepek, Niki
Keywords: (1) substance use; (2) ecological momentary assessment; (3) pharmaceuticals; (4) professional socialisation; (5) mixed methods research; (6) occupational performance; (7) performance-enhancing drugs; (8) social constructionism; (9) psychoactive effects; (10) social performance expectations
Preventing the spread of HIV: The critical role of addiction treatment services
Principal investigators: Jackson, Lois A; MacIsaac, Cynthia P
Keywords: Addiction Treatment Services; Barriers To Services; Community-Based Research; Facilitators To Services; Harm Reduction; Hiv/Aids Prevention; People Who Use Drugs
Patient Oriented Research: Effectively Responding to Substance Use Among Inpatients Receiving Medical and Rehabilitation Health Services
Principal investigators: Kiepek, Niki C; Freemantle, Stacey
Keywords: Addiction; Patient-Oriented Research; Primary Care; Rehabilitation Outcomes; Substance Use
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
- Occupational Therapy
- School of Nursing
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