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Roberta L. Woodgate

Roberta L. Woodgate

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
47
Citations
8376
World Ranking
3419
National Ranking
200

Overview

Roberta L. Woodgate is affiliated with the University of Manitoba in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences, medicine, and health professions, with extensive work in sociology and political science, general health professions, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and education.

Their main research topics highlight areas such as participatory visual research methods, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, mental health and patient involvement, family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, and cultural competency in health care.

Woodgate has contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include PLoS ONE, the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, BMJ Open, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and the International Journal of Circumpolar Health.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Woodgate include:

  • The experience of the self in Canadian youth living with anxiety: A qualitative study, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Understanding Youth's Lived Experience of Anxiety through Metaphors: A Qualitative, Arts-Based Study, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Creating Space for Youth Voice: Implications of Youth Disclosure Experiences for Youth-Centered Research, 2020, International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Other recent papers featuring Woodgate's collaboration include works on mindfulness-based interventions related to anxiety severity in adults with cancer and the use of Theatre of the Oppressed in nursing education.

Frequent co-authors in Woodgate's work are Pauline Tennent, Donna Martin, David Busolo, Miriam González, and Corinne Isaak. Collaboration with these researchers has been consistent across multiple studies.

Their research has produced a substantial body of work, with publication counts highest in the fields of social sciences and health professions. This cross-disciplinary approach integrates qualitative and quantitative methods, focusing particularly on youth, mental health, and participatory research methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Living in a World of Our Own: The Experience of Parents Who Have a Child With Autism

    Roberta L. Woodgate;Christine Ateah;Loretta Secco

  • A review of qualitative research on the childhood cancer experience from the perspective of siblings: a need to give them a voice.

    Krista L. Wilkins;Roberta L. Woodgate

  • Intense parenting: a qualitative study detailing the experiences of parenting children with complex care needs

    Roberta L. Woodgate;Marie Edwards;Jacquie D. Ripat;Barbara Borton

  • The importance of being there: perspectives of social support by adolescents with cancer.

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate

  • Life is never the same: childhood cancer narratives

    R.L. Woodgate

  • Adolescents' perspectives of chronic illness: "it's hard"

    Roberta L. Woodgate

  • A different way of being: adolescents' experiences with cancer.

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate

  • Siblings' experiences with childhood cancer: a different way of being in the family.

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate

  • A different perspective to approaching cancer symptoms in children

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate;Lesley Faith Degner;Rochelle Yanofsky

  • A substantive theory of Keeping the Spirit Alive: the Spirit Within children with cancer and their families.

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate;Lesley Faith Degner

  • The intersection of culture, disability and assistive technology

    Jacquie Ripat;Roberta Woodgate

  • Information and support needs of adolescent children of women with breast cancer.

    Linda J. Kristjanson;Karen I. Chalmers;Roberta Woodgate

  • Expectations and beliefs about children's cancer symptoms: perspectives of children with cancer and their families.

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate;Lesley Faith Degner

  • A qualitative study on African immigrant and refugee families’ experiences of accessing primary health care services in Manitoba, Canada: it’s not easy!

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate;David Shiyokha Busolo;Maryanne Crockett;Ruth Anne Dean

  • Conceptual understanding of resilience in the adolescent with cancer: Part I

    Roberta L. Woodgate

  • Living in a world without closure: reality for parents who have experienced the death of a child.

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate

  • A young child's pain: how parents and nurses ‘take care’

    Roberta Woodgate;Linda J. Kristjanson

  • Symptom distress in adult patients with cancer.

    Susan E. McClement;Roberta L. Woodgate;Lesley Degner

  • “Living With Risk”: Mothering a Child With Food-Induced Anaphylaxis

    Catherine A. Gillespie;Roberta L. Woodgate;Karen I. Chalmers;Wade T.A. Watson

  • Association of Mindfulness-Based Interventions With Anxiety Severity in Adults With Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Sapna Oberoi;Jiayu Yang;Roberta L. Woodgate;Saroj Niraula

  • Cancer symptom transition periods of children and families

    Roberta Lynn Woodgate;Lesley Faith Degner

Frequent Co-Authors

Malcolm R. Sears
Malcolm R. Sears McMaster University
Louise von Essen
Louise von Essen Uppsala University
Nicole Letourneau
Nicole Letourneau University of Calgary
Jeffrey R. Brook
Jeffrey R. Brook University of Toronto
Celia M. T. Greenwood
Celia M. T. Greenwood McGill University
Gerald F. Giesbrecht
Gerald F. Giesbrecht University of Calgary
Tracie O. Afifi
Tracie O. Afifi University of Manitoba
B. Brett Finlay
B. Brett Finlay University of British Columbia

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