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Denise Harrison

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Full ProfessorNursing SciencesUniversity of Ottawa

Denise Harrison

Full Professor

Nursing Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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24 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 14 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2015.

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Publications

190

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Grants

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Research

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Breastfeeding Immunizations Infants Knowledge Translation Pain Sucrose

Latest papers

A Scoping Review on Factors Influencing Parental Involvement in Healthy Newborns' Pain Management.
The Clinical journal of pain · 2026 · senior author
Methods of Assessing Postoperative Pain in Infants (0-12 Months): A Scoping Review.
Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2026
Enhancing infant pain assessment and treatment: investigating barriers, facilitators, and implementation outcomes with the ImPaC Resource.
Implementation science communications · 2026

All 77 publications

Latest funding

Pain Management from Skin-Breaking Procedures in Neonates: Knowledge Synthesis and Practice Guidelines
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Evaluating the effectiveness of an online knowledge translation intervention for minimizing procedural pain in hospitalized infants
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$1,116,171
Effective Knowledge Translation Strategies for Enhancing Impact and Improving Outcomes in Infant Pain
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
$3,823,346

All 7 grants and awards

77 publications.

A Scoping Review on Factors Influencing Parental Involvement in Healthy Newborns' Pain Management.

Candido LK, Forgeron P, Pope N, Bancroft X, Squires JE, Peterson W, Harrison D

The Clinical journal of pain2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/ajp.0000000000001370 PMID: 42444174

Methods of Assessing Postoperative Pain in Infants (0-12 Months): A Scoping Review.

Jyoti J, Waters D, Laing S, Harrison D, Badawi N, Popat H

Paediatric & neonatal pain2026

DOI: 10.1002/pne2.70043 PMID: 42621970

Enhancing infant pain assessment and treatment: investigating barriers, facilitators, and implementation outcomes with the ImPaC Resource.

Bueno M, Pearson K, Barwick MA, Campbell-Yeo M, Chambers C, Estabrooks C, Flynn R, Gibbins S, Harrison D, Isaranuwatchai W, LeMay S, Noel M, Stinson J, Synnes A, Victor C, Yamada J, Riahi S, Stevens B

Implementation science communications2026

DOI: 10.1186/s43058-026-00856-8 PMID: 41514379

An Australian survey of health professionals' perceptions of use and usefulness of electronic medical records in hospitalised children's pain care.

Pope N, Keyser J, Crellin D, Palmer G, South M, Harrison D

Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/13674935241256254 PMID: 38809661

Exploring implementation processes of a parent-targeted educational video for improving newborn pain treatment: A sequential exploratory mixed-methods study.

Larocque C, Venegas CL, Dunn S, Campbell-Yeo M, Gilmore L, Harrold J, Hu J, McArthur L, Modanloo S, Nicholls SG, O'Flaherty P, Premji SS, Reszel J, Semenic S, Squires JE, Stevens B, Taljaard M, Trepanier MJ, Venter K, Wilding J, Harrison D

Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/13674935231176888 PMID: 37351924

A Parent-Targeted Video for Evidence-Based Newborn Pain Management Strategies: Which Behavior Change Techniques Are Included and Do They Address Key Barriers?

Peters S, Pope N, Klaic M, Francis J, Harrison D

The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursing2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/jpn.0000000000000928 PMID: 40730105

Nationwide Cross-Sectional Online Survey of Australian Clinicians' Pain Management Practices for Newborns During Heel Lance Procedures.

Jones S, Pope N, Broom M, Cheong J, Church E, Cruz M, East C, Francis J, Ferullo J, Gamble A, Govindaswamy P, Grimston P, Hyde R, Pussell K, Spence K, Spittle A, Sweet L, Saracino AT, Walker S, Whitelaw J, Harrison D

Paediatric & neonatal pain2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/pne2.70010 PMID: 40620316

A longitudinal observational study on the epidemiology of painful procedures and sucrose administration in hospitalized preterm neonates.

Bueno M, Ballantyne M, Campbell-Yeo M, Estabrooks C, Gibbins S, Harrison D, McNair C, Riahi S, Squires J, Synnes A, Taddio A, Victor C, Yamada J, Stevens B

Paediatric & neonatal pain2024

DOI: 10.1002/pne2.12114 PMID: 38504869

The implementation of infant pain practice change resource to improve infant procedural pain practices: a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation study.

Stevens B, Bueno M, Barwick M, Campbell-Yeo M, Chambers C, Estabrooks C, Flynn R, Gibbins S, Harrison D, Isaranuwatchai W, LeMay S, Noel M, Stinson J, Synnes A, Victor C, Yamada J

Pain2024

DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003496 PMID: 39679622

Ethics of trial of effect of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates.

Harrison D, Bueno M

Translational pediatrics2024First author

DOI: 10.21037/tp-24-324 PMID: 39649649

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Denise Harrison

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A Scoping Review on Factors Influencing Parental Involvement in Healthy Newborns' Pain Management.

Methods of Assessing Postoperative Pain in Infants (0-12&#x2009;Months): A Scoping Review.

Enhancing infant pain assessment and treatment: investigating barriers, facilitators, and implementation outcomes with the ImPaC Resource.

An Australian survey of health professionals' perceptions of use and usefulness of electronic medical records in hospitalised children's pain care.

Exploring implementation processes of a parent-targeted educational video for improving newborn pain treatment: A sequential exploratory mixed-methods study.

A Parent-Targeted Video for Evidence-Based Newborn Pain Management Strategies: Which Behavior Change Techniques Are Included and Do They Address Key Barriers?

Nationwide Cross-Sectional Online Survey of Australian Clinicians' Pain Management Practices for Newborns During Heel Lance Procedures.

A longitudinal observational study on the epidemiology of painful procedures and sucrose administration in hospitalized preterm neonates.

The implementation of infant pain practice change resource to improve infant procedural pain practices: a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation study.

Ethics of trial of effect of parental touch on relieving acute procedural pain in neonates.

Pain Management from Skin-Breaking Procedures in Neonates: Knowledge Synthesis and Practice Guidelines

Evaluating the effectiveness of an online knowledge translation intervention for minimizing procedural pain in hospitalized infants

Effective Knowledge Translation Strategies for Enhancing Impact and Improving Outcomes in Infant Pain

Be Sweet to Babies during immunizations: Showing the evidence

Sucrose Practices for Pain in Neonates (SPiN); A Program of Research

Be Sweet and safe to children and youth during pokes and pains

Sustainability of a multidimensional knowledge translation intervention to improve paediatric pain practices and outcomes

Frequent collaborators

Mariana Bueno

Bonnie Stevens

Marsha Campbell-Yeo

Paula Forgeron

Janet Squires

Carole Estabrooks

Sandra Dunn

Jennifer Stinson

Anna Taddio

Dawn Stacey

Bonnie Stevens

Wendy Gifford

Viola Polomeno

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai

Melanie Noel

Stuart Nicholls

Laura Boland

Shokoufeh Modanloo

Christine Chambers

Joseph Beyene

Monica Taljaard

Justine Dol

Julie Chartrand

Denise Gastaldo

Souraya Sidani

Kimberley Widger

Monica Taljaard

Melanie Barwick

Wendy Peterson

Souraya Sidani

Chantal Backman

Jennifer Stinson

Brian Hutton

Allana LeBlanc

Souraya Sidani

Andy Willan

Methods of Assessing Postoperative Pain in Infants (0-12 Months): A Scoping Review.