Group 1: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 

Poster themes:

1. Chronic diseases and conditions
2. Mental health and substance use
3. Improving infrastructures for patient and community engagement (Part 1)
4. Innovations in health care and health systems (Part 1)

Chronic diseases and conditions

• Collaborating to Support Unhoused People with Wounds

• Interior Health’s Collaboration to Rapid, Reliable STEMI Intervention

• A patient-oriented multi-modal MRI study on myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome

• Project IMPACT (Include Messaging for Patients and Care Teams): Patient Centered Care in Paediatric Type 1 Diabetes Using Texting-Spreading in Interior Health *

• Optimizing Diabetes Care: A Community-Partnered Qualitative Study on Patients with Pre- or Mild Diabetes

• Empowering Women with Endometriosis and Adenomyosis through a bilingual, anonymous platform and Open Data outcomes

• Feasibility of the patient‐reported outcome measure for the assessment of symptom burden in pediatric chronic kidney disease “PRO-Kid” in children aged 2-7 years

Mental health and substance use

• Screening for trauma in a youth integrated care clinic (Foundry Vancouver); youth and staff experience

• Evidence in Care: A Learning Community Approach to Rapid Evidence Reviews

• Development of a unique advisory committee for mental health service improvements

• Partnering with People Who Use Drugs to Create Safe Inclusive Health Care Spaces

• Learning from Recovery College Peer Educators: A Participatory Research Project

• Building a path towards patient-centered program success: Community perspectives on indicators of program success for an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) program for people with persistent and multiple barriers to employment in British Columbia, Canada.

• Let’s talk about pain: A qualitative exploration of ways to introduce the current model of chronic pain to patients.

Improving infrastructures for patient and community engagement (Part 1)

• Bringing lived experience to peer review: Collaborative development of a learning module

• Rising Up: Collaborating with Chinese Families and Communities for Parenting Resources

• Empowering the Citizen Patient

• NEOCATS: Patient-led Resource Development for Clinical Trials

• Engaging with patient and family partners to develop education materials

• Transforming Research with Patients First: Building Capacity through POR eLearning

• Bridging the Gap: Implementing the Transitional Care Approach for New Hemodialysis Patients

Innovations in health care and health systems (Part 1)

• Every Move Matters: Royal Inland Hospital Patient Activation Team Keeps Patients Moving Forward

• The Head and Neck Cancer Application for Patients and their Partners (HANC APP) Study: Co-designing through patient partner workshops

• Co-developing a Period Pain Awareness Campaign with Youth as Research Partners

• Implementing Patient-partnered Workshops in Regional Areas of British Columbia to Enhance Clinician Confidence in SCI Care

• Get the Message? Improving Access to Virtual Healthcare for Older Adults Through Patient Partner Collaboration *

• Transforming Access to Pediatric Rheumatology Care for Remote and Rural Communities: Findings from the Northern BC Project *

• Design and Implementation of a Patient Advisory Council (PAC) for the Department of Anesthesia at Providence Health Care

* These posters were also selected for presentations and their teams will also present them at 2:45 p.m in the Pinnacle Ballroom.

Group 2: 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Poster themes:

1. Indigenous health improvement
2. Care and caregiving
3. Improving infrastructures for patient and community engagement (Part 2)
4. Innovations in health care and health systems (Part 2)

Indigenous health improvement

• Putting Indigenous patients first: Lessons learned from improving the quality of nutrition care in a tertiary hospital in BC

• Prenatal Opioid Exposure and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Collaborative Research Project with First Nations Communities

• Identifying social determinants of health and quality of life information for use in health and social services in Indigenous communities

• The Arthritis Community Learning Circle: A Learning Community Advancing Equitable Arthritis Care for Indigenous Peoples

• Indigenous Knowledge Translation at the Indigenous Wellbeing Gathering Conference

Care and caregiving

• Raise Your Voice: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Resident and Family Councils in Long-Term Care Homes in British Columbia, Canada.

• Qualitatively Exploring Opportunities to Support Older Women’s Sexual Health and Wellbeing in Fraser Health Authority’s Assisted Living Sector

• Understanding the lived experience of participating in exercise in youth with cerebral palsy and their caregivers

• The effects of caregiving: setting up our research framework

• Exploring perceptions on the concerns, challenges, and opportunities around sedentary behaviour awareness and reduction in long-term care homes

• Beyond the Binary in BC: A Continuous, Collaborative, Commitment to Supporting Inclusive Women’s Health Research

• Evidence-based Cost Accounting for Long-term Care Beds in Home-based and Institutional Settings (Work in Progress)

Improving infrastructures for patient and community engagement (Part 2)

• Organizational Factors that Foster Engagement-Capable Environments: A Study of Health Research Networks

• Peer-to-Peer as a Patient Partner Recruitment Strategy in a National Kidney Health Research Network

• Collaborating with Patients to Create UBC Health’s Position Statement for Patient and Community Engagement in Research

• A Patient and Family Cost Calculator called GEOFFE

• Leading from the Edge: Rural Patients & Communities Advocating, Designing & Influencing Digital Patient Tools

• Characterizing the impacts of engaging with patient advisory councils on long-term recovery for sepsis survivors and their families

• Power and Perspectives: Using Equity Walk Throughs to Inform Equity-Oriented Approaches at BC Cancer Vancouver

Innovations in health care and health systems (Part 2)

• Improving Patient Involvement through Human Centered Design

• An analysis of client data by Open Arms Patient Advocacy’s learning community to improve healthcare accessibility and navigation in Alberta

• A Day in the Life of a Longhauler: Amplifying Experiences of Long COVID Patients through Photovoice Methodology

• Designing a patient-first virtual service

• Peer support for people with traumatic brain injury within community-partnerships: a mixed-methods investigation of feasibility and impact

• Conducting mixed-methods research with individuals with traumatic brain injury: Reflections and considerations

• Co-Creating Care: Enhancing Advance Care Planning in Oncology Through Patient & Healthcare provider partnerships