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Overview

Joan L. Bottorff is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, health professions, and social sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, gender studies, physiology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics Joan L. Bottorff has worked on include:

  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Community Health and Development

Their recent publications cover a range of health-related issues and reflect multidisciplinary approaches. Notable papers include:

  • "People say men don't talk, well that's bullshit": A focus group study exploring challenges and opportunities for men's mental health promotion, 2022, published in PLoS ONE
  • One small step for man, one giant leap for men's health: a meta-analysis of behaviour change interventions to increase men's physical activity, 2020, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • A RE-AIM evaluation of Healthy Together: a family-centred program to support children's healthy weights, 2020, published in BMC Public Health
  • Correlates of Food Insecurity Among Undergraduate Students, 2020, published in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Work: A Scoping Review, 2020, published in the American Journal of Men's Health

Joan L. Bottorff has collaborated frequently with several researchers, with the most common coauthors being:

  • John L. Oliffe
  • Cristina M. Caperchione
  • Paul Sharp
  • Simon Rice
  • Kate Hunt

Their work has appeared repeatedly in specific publication venues, including:

  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Canadian Journal of Higher Education
  • American Journal of Men's Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • Concepts of caring and caring as a concept

    J. M. Morse;S. M. Solberg;W. L. Neander;J. L. Bottorff

  • Othering and being othered in the context of health care services.

    Joy L Johnson;Joan L Bottorff;Annette J Browne;Sukhdev Grewal

  • Exploring Empathy: A Conceptual Fit for Nursing Practice?

    Janice M. Morse;Gwen Anderson;Joan L. Bottorff;Olive Yonge

  • Comparative Analysis of Conceptualizations and Theories of Caring

    Janice M. Morse;Joan Bottorff;Wendy Neander;Shirley Solberg

  • Beyond empathy: expanding expressions of caring

    Janice M Morse;Joan Bottorff;Gwen Anderson;Beverley O'Brien

  • Further Than the Eye Can See? Photo Elicitation and Research With Men

    John L. Oliffe;Joan L. Bottorff

  • “You feel like you can’t live anymore”: Suicide from the perspectives of Canadian men who experience depression

    John L. Oliffe;John S. Ogrodniczuk;Joan L. Bottorff;Joy L. Johnson

  • The phenomenology of comfort.

    Janice M Morse;Joan L Bottorff;Sally Hutchinson

  • A narrative view of art therapy and art making by women with breast cancer.

    Kate Collie;Joan L. Bottorff;Bonita C. Long

  • Can we move beyond burden and burnout to support the health and wellness of family caregivers to persons with dementia? Evidence from British Columbia, Canada

    Meredith B. Lilly;Carole A. Robinson;Susan Holtzman;Joan L. Bottorff

  • Perceptions of cannabis as a stigmatized medicine : A qualitative descriptive study

    Joan L Bottorff;Laura J L Bissell;Lynda G Balneaves;John L Oliffe

  • Perceptions of genetic discrimination among people at risk for Huntington’s disease: a cross sectional survey

    Yvonne O. Bombard;Gerry Veenstra;Jan M. Friedman;Susan Creighton

  • Beliefs related to breast health practices: the perceptions of South Asian women living in Canada.

    J L Bottorff;J L Johnson;R Bhagat;S Grewal

  • Blending Observational Methods: Possibilities, Strategies, and Challenges

    Barbara L. Paterson;Joan L. Bottorff;Roberta Hewat

  • Communicating cancer risk information: the challenges of uncertainty

    Joan L Bottorff;Pamela A Ratner;Joy L Johnson;Chris Y Lovato

  • Rural Palliative Care: A Comprehensive Review.

    Carol Robinson;Barbara Pesut;Joan Lorraine Bottorff;Andrea Mowry

  • The Influence of Family on Immigrant South Asian Women’s Health

    Sukhdev Grewal;Joan L. Bottorff;B. Ann Hilton

  • "Becoming the real me": recovering from anorexia nervosa.

    Mary M. H. Lamoureux;Joan L. Bottorff

  • An exploration of Pender's Health Promotion Model using LISREL.

    Joy L. Johnson;Pamela A. Ratner;Joan L. Bottorff;Leslie A. Hayduk

  • Analyzing participant produced photographs from an ethnographic study of fatherhood and smoking.

    J. L. Oliffe;Joan Lorraine Bottorff;Michelle Kelly;M. Halpin

  • Knowledge Translation Where Are the Qualitative Health Researchers

    Joan L. Bottorff

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Oliffe
John L. Oliffe University of British Columbia
Joy L. Johnson
Joy L. Johnson Simon Fraser University
Pamela A. Ratner
Pamela A. Ratner University of British Columbia
Lorraine Greaves
Lorraine Greaves University of British Columbia
Janice M. Morse
Janice M. Morse University of Utah
Jane A. Buxton
Jane A. Buxton University of British Columbia
Jean Shoveller
Jean Shoveller University of British Columbia
Mary Jane Esplen
Mary Jane Esplen University of Toronto
John S. Ogrodniczuk
John S. Ogrodniczuk University of British Columbia
Bruno D. Zumbo
Bruno D. Zumbo University of British Columbia

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