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Michel Bédard

Michel Bédard

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
55
Citations
12035
World Ranking
2022
National Ranking
111

Overview

Michel Bédard is affiliated with Lakehead University in Canada and has conducted extensive research predominantly in the fields of Social Sciences and Health Professions. Their work spans multiple interdisciplinary topics related to health, safety, and transportation with an emphasis on older adult populations.

Bédard's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

The subfields of study in which Bédard has contributed include:

  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
  • Transportation
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Health
  • General Health Professions

The major topics addressed in their research are:

  • Older Adults Driving Studies
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety

Bédard has published a number of research papers, with recent contributions including:

  • "The Validity of Three New Driving Simulator Scenarios: Detecting Differences in Driving Performance by Difficulty and Driver Gender and Age" (2020) in Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
  • "Adolescent exposure to cannabis marketing following recreational cannabis legalization in Canada: A pilot study using ecological momentary assessment" (2021) in Addictive Behaviors Reports
  • "Candrive-Development of a Risk Stratification Tool for Older Drivers" (2023) in The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • "Perceived Community Age-friendliness is Associated With Quality of Life Among Older Adults" (2022) in Journal of Applied Gerontology
  • "Canadian Older Adults' Perceptions of Transitioning from Driver to Non-Driver" (2021) in Occupational Therapy In Health Care

The venues where Bédard frequently publishes include:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Occupational Therapy In Health Care
  • Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Regular co-authors collaborating with Bédard are:

  • Hillary Maxwell
  • Arne Stinchcombe
  • Shawn Marshall
  • Sacha Dubois
  • Gary Naglie

Best Publications

  • The Zarit Burden Interview A New Short Version and Screening Version

    Michel Bédard;D. William Molloy;Larry Squire;Sacha Dubois

  • Systematic Implementation of an Advance Directive Program in Nursing Homes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    D W Molloy;G H Guyatt;R Russo;R Goeree

  • The independent contribution of driver, crash, and vehicle characteristics to driver fatalities

    Michel Bédard;Gordon H. Guyatt;Michael J. Stones;John P. Hirdes

  • Transportation and Aging: A Research Agenda for Advancing Safe Mobility

    Anne E Dickerson;Lisa J Molnar;David W Eby;Geri Adler

  • Interobserver variation in interpreting chest radiographs for the diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    Maureen O. Meade;Richard J. Cook;Gordon H. Guyatt;Ryan Groll

  • Pilot evaluation of a mindfulness-based intervention to improve quality of life among individuals who sustained traumatic brain injuries.

    Michel BÉdard;Melissa Felteau;Dwight Mazmanian;Karilyn Fedyk

  • Preferences for place of care and place of death among informal caregivers of the terminally ill.

    Kevin Brazil;Doris Howell;Michel Bedard;Paul Krueger

  • Assessment of Driving Performance Using a Simulator Protocol: Validity and Reproducibility

    Michel B Bédard;Marie Parkkari;Bruce Weaver;Julie Riendeau

  • Simulator Validity: Behaviors Observed on the Simulator and on the Road

    Nadia Mullen;Judith Charlton;Anna Devlin;Michel Bedard

  • Burden in caregivers of cognitively impaired older adults living in the community: methodological issues and determinants.

    Michel Bédard;David Pedlar;Nancy J. Martin;Olga Malott

  • Understanding burden differences between men and women caregivers: the contribution of care-recipient problem behaviors.

    Michel Bédard;Rylee Kuzik;Lori Chambers;D. William Molloy

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces symptoms of depression in people with a traumatic brain injury: results from a randomized controlled trial.

    Michel Bedard;Melissa Felteau;Shawn Marshall;Nora K. Cullen

  • The combined effects of alcohol and cannabis on driving: Impact on crash risk

    Sacha Dubois;Nadia Mullen;Bruce Weaver;Bruce Weaver;Michel Bédard

  • The impact of cannabis on driving

    Michel Bédard;Sacha Dubois;Bruce Weaver;Bruce Weaver

  • Benzodiazepine Use and Driving: A Meta-Analysis

    Mark J. Rapoport;Krista L. Lanctôt;David L. Streiner;Michel Bédard

  • Transportation and Aging: An Updated Research Agenda to Advance Safe Mobility among Older Adults Transitioning From Driving to Non-driving.

    Anne E Dickerson;Lisa J Molnar;Michel Bédard;David W Eby

  • Sleep disturbances in spousal caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.

    Joy Creese;Michel Bédard;Kevin Brazil;Lori Chambers

  • Health impact on caregivers of providing informal care to a cognitively impaired older adult: rural versus urban settings.

    Michel Bédard;Amanda Koivuranta;Amber Stuckey

  • Protocol for Candrive II/Ozcandrive, a multicentre prospective older driver cohort study

    Shawn C Marshall;Malcolm Man-Son-Hing;Michael Bedard;Judith Lynne Charlton

  • Predicting Driving Performance in Older Adults: We Are Not There Yet!

    Michel Bedard;Bruce Weaver;Peteris Janis Darzins;Michelle M Porter

  • Using the Attention Network Test to predict driving test scores.

    Bruce Weaver;Bruce Weaver;Michel Bédard;Michel Bédard;Jim McAuliffe;Marie Parkkari

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Rapoport
Mark J. Rapoport Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Holly Tuokko
Holly Tuokko University of Victoria
Judith Lynne Charlton
Judith Lynne Charlton Monash University
Michael J. Stones
Michael J. Stones Lakehead University
Dwight Mazmanian
Dwight Mazmanian Lakehead University
Jennie Ponsford
Jennie Ponsford Monash University
Craig A. Velozo
Craig A. Velozo Medical University of South Carolina
Norm O'Rourke
Norm O'Rourke Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University
Liat Ayalon
Liat Ayalon Bar-Ilan University

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