Nursing research snapshot
A/Prof Wendy Hall - Nursing - The University of British Columbia
Wendy.Hall@nursing.ubc.ca
My areas of research expertise
- Infant sleep
- Parenting
- Dual-earner families
- Professionals' attitudes towards birth
- Childbirth fear
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Qualitative (grounded theory)
- Survey
- Randomized and controlled trials
Areas that I am currently researching
- Pregnant women's sleep patterns and worries in late pregnancy
- Care providers' attitudes towards birth
- Behavioural sleep problems and daytime functioning in infants and toddlers
- Simultaneous versus sequential immunizations for four month old infants
- Effects of sleep problems on preschool children
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Infant and maternal sleep
- Effects of infants' sleep problems on family functioning and children's behaviour
- Testing interventions for infant sleep problems
- Examining effects of childbirth fear and sleep deprivation on birth outcomes
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- Effects of childbirth fear and sleep deprivation on birth outcomes
- Testing interventions for infant sleep problems
- Examining effects of sleep problems on later development
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- As above, as well as qualitative methods and doing research in teams
Resources/facilities currently available to me that I would like to highlight
- Not many resources currently available. There are travel grants to go overseas available every two years
Additional comment
- This would be an interesting opportunity. I am already working with researchers at Curtin University in Perth and at Griffith University on the Gold Coast.
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