Amanda Vandyk, University of Ottawa

Research

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Mental Health Psychiatry Risk Assssment Systematic Review Violence Critical Care Critical Care Nursing Practice Emergency Department

Latest papers

Understanding the Nurse Champion Concept and the Training Initiatives for Nurse Champions: Protocol for a Scoping Review.
JMIR research protocols · 2026
Systems for assessing the certainty or confidence of evidence in health care: a scoping review protocol.
JBI evidence synthesis · 2025
A Systematic Review of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis HIV Adherence Interventions.
The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · 2024

All 25 publications

Latest funding

Violence Risk Assessment in Clinical Psychiatry: A Systematic Review
CIHR · 2020 · Principal investigator
$80,000
Adapting transitions-in-care (TiC) strategies for cancer to be culturally relevant with First Nations communities
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$200,000
PrEP-RN: A Literature Review and Qualitative Exploration of HIV PrEP
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$60,000

All 7 grants and awards

25 publications.

01

Understanding the Nurse Champion Concept and the Training Initiatives for Nurse Champions: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

Santos WJ, Graham ID, Vandyk A, Harvey G, Squires JE

JMIR research protocols2026

DOI: 10.2196/80204 PMID: 41540898

02

Systems for assessing the certainty or confidence of evidence in health care: a scoping review protocol.

Lizarondo L, Loveday H, Salmond S, Cooper K, Godfrey C, Pollock D, Rieger K, Vandyk A, Janakiram C, Kurian N, Fiorini J, Stern C

JBI evidence synthesis2025

DOI: 10.11124/jbies-24-00556 PMID: 40269553

03

A Systematic Review of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis HIV Adherence Interventions.

Haines M, Vandyk A, Skidmore B, Orser L, O'Byrne P

The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC2024

DOI: 10.1097/jnc.0000000000000460 PMID: 38564213

04

The experiences of people who use injection drugs with accessing hepatitis c testing and diagnosis in western countries: A scoping review.

Ho N, Vandyk A, Horvath C, Magboo Cahill T, O'Byrne P

Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)2024

DOI: 10.1111/phn.13254 PMID: 37712447

05

Understanding How and Under What Circumstances Social Media Supports Health Care Providers' Knowledge Use in Clinical Practice: A Realist Review.

Zhao J, Harvey G, Vandyk A, Huang M, Hu J, Modanloo S, Gifford W

Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association2023

DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2022.0213 PMID: 35994025

06

Understanding the Physical Health Problems of People with Psychotic Disorders Using Digital Storytelling.

Wazni L, Gifford W, Perron A, Vandyk A

Issues in mental health nursing2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2023.2229435 PMID: 37549316

07

Five common pitfalls in mixed methods systematic reviews: lessons learned.

Lizarondo L, Stern C, Apostolo J, Carrier J, de Borges K, Godfrey C, Kirkpatrick P, Pollock D, Rieger K, Salmond S, Vandyk A, Loveday H

Journal of clinical epidemiology2022

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.03.014 PMID: 35341946

08

Social Media for ImpLementing Evidence (SMILE): Conceptual Framework.

Zhao J, Harvey G, Vandyk A, Gifford W

JMIR formative research2022

DOI: 10.2196/29891 PMID: 35262488

09

Engaging Knowledge Users with Mental Health Experience in a Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Post-secondary Students with Psychosis: Reflections and Lessons Learned from a Master's Thesis.

Sanderson V, Vandyk A, Jacob JD, Graham ID

International journal of health policy and management2022

DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.138 PMID: 32772008

10

[The experiences of francophone patients who frequently present to the emergency department for mental health reasons].

Vandyk A, Lightfoot S, Levesque K, Domecq MC, Jacob JD

Recherche en soins infirmiers2022First author

PMID: 36609468

Violence Risk Assessment in Clinical Psychiatry: A Systematic Review

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Project Grant

Principal investigators: Jacob, Jean Daniel; Vandyk, Amanda

Keywords: Mental Health; Psychiatry; Risk Assssment; Systematic Review; Violence

$80,000

Adapting transitions-in-care (TiC) strategies for cancer to be culturally relevant with First Nations communities

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Operating Grant: Transitions in Care - Evaluation Grants

Principal investigators: Gifford, Wendy A; Dick, Peggy F; Dick, Natasha; Thomas, Roanne Leigh

Keywords: Cancer Survivorship; Community Based Participatory Research; First Nations; Indigenous Knowledge Translation; Integrated Knowledge Translation; Patient And System Navigation; Transition In Care

$200,000

PrEP-RN: A Literature Review and Qualitative Exploration of HIV PrEP

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: O'Byrne, Patrick; Holmes, Dave

Keywords: Hiv; Prep; Prevention; Qualitative; Risk

$60,000

Exploring New Graduate Nurses' Transition into Critical Care Nursing Practice

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Vanderspank, Brandi L; Carlson, Stephanie; Crowe, Sarah; Lalonde, Michelle M; Vandyk, Amanda

Keywords: Critical Care; Critical Care Nursing Practice; Emergency Department; Intensive Care Unit; New Graduate Nurses; Transition To Practice

$180,000

SPOR Evidence Alliance

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Operating Grant: SPOR - Guidelines and Systematic Reviews

Principal investigators: Tricco, Andrea C; Abbott, John G; Barker, Kim; Beben, Nicole; Clifford, Tammy J; Gall Casey, Carolyn; Hayes, Anne; Proctor, Andrea; Teare, Gary F; Abou-Setta, Ahmed M; Clement, Fiona Mary; Colquhoun, Heather; Curran, Janet; Godfrey, Christina M; Isaranuwatchai, Wanrudee; LeBlanc, Annie; Li, Linda C; Moffitt, Pertice M; Moher, David; Straus, Sharon E

Keywords: Capacity-Building; Clinical Practice Guidelines; Dissemination; Implementation; Knowledge Synthesis; Knowledge Translation; Mentorship; Patient Engagement; Patient-Oriented Research; Systematic Reviews

$4,996,890

Inappropriateness of Health Care in Canada

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Project Grant

Principal investigators: Squires, Janet E; Grinspun, Doris R.

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Knowledge Translation; Quality Improvement; Systematic Review

$275,400

A knowledge synthesis and integrated knowledge translation project on interventions to improve emergency department use for mental health reasons.

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Vandyk, Amanda; Kaluzienski, Mark

Keywords: Emergency Department Use; Interventions; Psychiatry/Mental Health

$73,527

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

Nursing Sciences
Medicine
Community Health Sciences
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Community Health and Epidemiology
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Family Medicine
Other

Applying for

Paper to mentionMention their CIHR grant from 2020

Subject: Prospective PhD student: Mental Health Dear Professor Vandyk, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Understanding the Nurse Champion Concept and the Training Initiatives for Nurse Champions: Protocol for a Scoping Review." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Violence Risk Assessment in Clinical Psychiatry: A Systematic Review" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]