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Patricia McKeever is affiliated with Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with key subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics such as Infant Development and Preterm Care, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Family and Disability Support Research, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Posthumanist Ethics and Activism, and Children's Rights and Participation.

Recent publications by Patricia McKeever include the following papers:

  • Tensions in Maternal Care for Children, Youth, and Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder (2020, Global Qualitative Nursing Research)
  • Pain trajectories and well-being in children and young people with cerebral palsy: A cohort study (2022, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology)
  • Identifying pain trajectories in children and youth with cerebral palsy: a pilot study (2021, BMC Pediatrics)
  • Diagramming Disability: A Deleuzian Approach to Researching Childhood Disability (2021, Deleuze and Guattari Studies)
  • Development and design of EMPOWER - a patient-led psycho-social empowerment programme for cancer related menopause (2025, Maturitas)

Frequent collaborators include Heather M. Shearer, Pierre Côté, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Darcy Fehlings, and David Nicholas.

Patricia McKeever has published in various academic venues, with several contributions to:

  • Global Qualitative Nursing Research
  • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
  • BMC Pediatrics
  • Deleuze and Guattari Studies
  • Maturitas

Best Publications

  • Photo Elicitation Interview (PEI): Using Photos to Elicit Children’s Perspectives

    Iris Epstein;Bonnie Stevens;Patricia McKeever;Sylvain Baruchel

  • The home as a site for long-term care: meanings and management of bodies and spaces.

    Isabel Dyck;Pia Kontos;Jan Angus;Patricia McKeever

  • Mothering children who have disabilities: a Bourdieusian interpretation of maternal practices.

    Patricia McKeever;Karen-Lee Miller

  • The personal significance of home: habitus and the experience of receiving long-term home care.

    Jan Angus;Pia Kontos;Isabel Dyck;Patricia McKeever

  • Recasting research into children's experiences of parental mental illness: beyond risk and resilience.

    Brenda McConnell Gladstone;Katherine M. Boydell;Patricia McKeever

  • Relationships between nurses and family caregivers: partners in care?

    Catherine Ward-Griffin;Patricia McKeever

  • Children's experiences of parental mental illness: a literature review.

    Brenda M. Gladstone;Katherine M. Boydell;Mary V. Seeman;Patricia D. McKeever;Patricia D. McKeever

  • Procedural pain in newborns at risk for neurologic impairment.

    Bonnie Stevens;Patrick McGrath;Sharyn Gibbins;Joseph Beyene

  • Siblings of chronically ill children: A literature review with implications for research and practice.

    Patricia McKeever

  • Comparison of Pain Responses in Infants of Different Gestational Ages

    Sharyn Gibbins;Bonnie Stevens;Patrick J. McGrath;Janet Yamada

  • Kids in the atrium: comparing architectural intentions and children's experiences in a pediatric hospital lobby.

    Annmarie Adams;David Theodore;Ellie Goldenberg;Coralee McLaren

  • Home Care in Canada: Passing the Buck

    Peter C. Coyte;Patricia McKeever

  • Children's and parents' beliefs regarding the value of walking: rehabilitation implications for children with cerebral palsy

    B. E. Gibson;B. E. Gibson;G. Teachman;V. Wright;D. Fehlings

  • Men on the margin: A Bourdieusian examination of living into adulthood with muscular dystrophy

    Barbara E. Gibson;Nancy L. Young;Ross E.G. Upshur;Patricia McKeever

  • Using participant observation in pediatric health care settings: ethical challenges and solutions:

    Franco A. Carnevale;Mary Ellen Macdonald;Myra Bluebond-Langner;Patricia McKeever

  • Testing a new theory of patient satisfaction with treatment outcome.

    Pamela L. Hudak;Sheilah Hogg-Johnson;Claire Bombardier;Patricia D. McKeever

  • Re‐Conceptualizing the Hospital Labor Room: The PLACE (Pregnant and Laboring in an Ambient Clinical Environment) Pilot Trial

    Ellen D. Hodnett;Robyn Stremler;Julie A. Weston;Patricia McKeever

  • Getting out of the house: the challenges mothers face when their children have long-term care needs

    Nicole M. Yantzi;Mark W. Rosenberg;Patricia McKeever

  • Home versus hospital breastfeeding support for newborns: A randomized controlled trial

    Patricia McKeever;Bonnie Stevens;Karen-Lee Miller;Jo Watson MacDonell

  • Mothers' decisions about gastrostomy tube insertion in children: factors contributing to uncertainty.

    Denise N Guerriere;Patricia McKeever;Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas;Glenn Berall

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark T. Greenberg
Mark T. Greenberg Pennsylvania State University
Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University
Katherine M. Boydell
Katherine M. Boydell Black Dog Institute
Wendy J. Ungar
Wendy J. Ungar University of Toronto
Sally Lindsay
Sally Lindsay Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Rahim Moineddin
Rahim Moineddin University of Toronto
Ross E. G. Upshur
Ross E. G. Upshur University of Toronto
Isabel Dyck
Isabel Dyck Queen Mary University of London
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Gillian King
Gillian King Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

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