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Wendy Ann Sword

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Professor EmeritusNursingMcMaster University

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123 publications.

01

Do Psychological and Behavioural Factors Change Over Pregnancy?

Yu ZM, Van Blyderveen S, Schmidt L, Lu CH, Vanstone M, Biringer A, Sword W, Beyene J, McDonald SD

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada20236 citations
DOI: 10.1016/j.jogc.2023.05.031
02

A goal set too high: factors associated with planning excess gestational weight gain in a prospective cohort study

Lu CH, Van Blyderveen S, Yu ZM, Vanstone M, Biringer A, Sword W, Schmidt L, McDonald SD

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine20224 citations
DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2021.1937988
03

Gestational weight gain outside the 2009 Institute of Medicine recommendations: novel psychological and behavioural factors associated with inadequate or excess weight gain in a prospective cohort study

Feng YY, Yu ZM, van Blyderveen S, Schmidt L, Sword W, Vanstone M, Biringer A, McDonald H, Beyene J, McDonald SD

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth202117 citationsOpen Access
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-021-03555-5PMID: W3124250738
04

Predictors of Gestational Weight Gain Examined As a Continuous Outcome: A Prospective Analysis

Yu ZM, Van Blyderveen S, Schmidt L, Lu C, Vanstone M, Biringer A, Sword W, Beyene J, McDonald SD

Journal of Women's Health202113 citations
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8799
05

Does Excess First- or Second-Trimester Weight Gain Predict Excess Total Gestational Weight Gain? A Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study

Grabovac M, Yu ZM, Vanstone M, van Blyderveen S, Biringer A, Sword W, Schmidt L, McDonald SD

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada20212 citations
DOI: 10.1016/j.jogc.2020.10.022
06

Influences on mental health and health services accessibility in immigrant women with post‐partum depression: An interpretive descriptive study

Ganann R, Sword W, Newbold KB, Thabane L, Armour L, Kint B

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing202040 citations
DOI: 10.1111/jpm.12557
07

Prediction of excess pregnancy weight gain using psychological, physical, and social predictors: A validated model in a prospective cohort study

McDonald SD, Yu ZM, van Blyderveen S, Schmidt L, Sword W, Vanstone M, Biringer A, McDonald H, Beyene J

PLoS ONE202024 citationsOpen Access
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233774PMID: W3029488714
08

Factors obstetricians, family physicians and midwives consider when counselling women about a trial of labour after caesarean and planned repeat caesarean: a qualitative descriptive study

Kurtz Landy C, Sword W, Kathnelson JC, McDonald S, Biringer A, Heaman M, Angle P

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth202010 citationsOpen Access
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-020-03052-1PMID: W3036561303
09

Competing priorities: a qualitative study of how women make and enact decisions about weight gain in pregnancy

Vanstone M, Sadik M, Van Blyderveen S, Biringer A, Sword W, Schmidt L, Mcdonald SD

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth20207 citationsOpen Access
DOI: 10.1186/s12884-020-03210-5PMID: W3082001580
10

Screening and Intervention Practices for Alcohol Use by Pregnant Women and Women of Childbearing Age: Results of a Canadian Survey

Sword W, Green C, Akhtar-Danesh N, McDonald SD, Kaminsky K, Roberts N, Cook J

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada20206 citationsFirst author
DOI: 10.1016/j.jogc.2020.02.114

Frequent collaborators

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Wendy Ann SwordSarah McDonaldG Alison NiccolsLehana ThabaneMaureen DobbinsLouis SchmidtJoseph BeyeneKeyna BrackenMeredith VanstoneSusan JackValerie TaylorRebecca Ganann
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Sarah McDonald

Obstetrics & Gynecology

29 shared papers, latest 2023

G Alison Niccols

Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

22 shared papers, latest 2017

Lehana Thabane

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

16 shared papers, latest 2020

Maureen Dobbins

Nursing

12 shared papers, latest 2017

Louis Schmidt

Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

9 shared papers, latest 2023

Valerie Taylor

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

8 shared papers, latest 2015

Researchers with similar interests

Patricia McNiven

Family Medicine

Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Amie Davis

Family Medicine

Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions

Luisa Caropreso

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Giulia Muraca

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Global Maternal and Child Health

Sharon Dore

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Global Maternal and Child Health

Angela Reitsma

Family Medicine

Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Global Maternal and Child Health

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